Tourism and transparency: navigating ethical risks in volunteerism with fair trade learning

Hartman, Eric, Paris, Cody Morris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0339-2471 and Blanche-Cohen, Brandon (2013) Tourism and transparency: navigating ethical risks in volunteerism with fair trade learning. Africa Insight, 42 (2) . pp. 157-168. ISSN 0256-2804 [Article]

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Abstract

The international volunteer and academic service-learning market is expanding rapidly, despite critics’ assertions regarding the dangers of development amateurism. We provide a framing of growth and concerns in the sector, along with an explanation of emerging best practices. We elucidate through four cases – two that illuminate extremes in partnership potential and two African cases that illustrate the challenges involved in implementing an ideal partnership type termed Fair Trade Learning (FTL). We conclude with a call for increased transparency in the international volunteer sector. We offer this article as an initial consideration of a current change process that is integrating increasing community voice, economic power and iterative feedback in international service programming

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