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Hegemony, Counter Hegemony and NGO Accountability Change: BRAC in Bangladesh

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Drawing from Antonio Gramsci’s ideas, a dialectic analysis of accountability change in a large, Bangladesh NGO – BRAC is conducted to investigate how BRAC extended accountability issues within society; and how hegemonic and counter-hegemonic dialectics changed accountability practices. The paper details how a functional accountability was transformed into a holistic social form as it interacted with Bangladesh’s socio-economic and political context.

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