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Authored Books

Jennings, Michael (2008) Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, Ct: Kumarian Press.

Jennings, Michael (2007) Surrogates of the State. NGOs, Development, and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Jennings, Michael and Clarke, Gerard, eds. (2008) Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organisations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Barrow, Ondine and Jennings, Michael, eds. (2001) The Charitable Impulse: NGOs and Development in East and North-East Africa. Oxford: James Currey.

Jennings, Michael and Barrow, Ondine, eds. (2001) The Charitable Impulse: Non-Governmental Organisations in East and North-East Africa. Oxford: James Currey.

Book Chapters

Jennings, Michael (2016) 'Common witness, common cause: Beyond Boundaries in faith-based development action.' In: Ware, Anthony and Clarke, Matthew, (eds.), Development Across Faith Boundaries. Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 16-32. (Routledge Research in Religion and Development)

Jennings, Michael (2016) 'Doing Good While They Can: International volunteers, development and politics in early Independence Tanzania.' In: Price, Ruth and Brown, Hannah, (eds.), Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 119-139. (African Issues)

Jennings, Michael (2016) '‘Development is Very Political in Tanzania’: Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972–76.' In: Young, Tom, (ed.), Readings in the International Relations of Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 77-92. (Readings in African Studies)

Jennings, Michael (2015) 'Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika.' In: Greenwood, Anna, (ed.), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 153-173. (Studies in Imperialism)

Jennings, Michael (2014) 'Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organisations and the Emergence of the Non-State Provider Sector in Tanzania.' In: Maclean, Lauren and Cammett, Melani, (eds.), The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 119-136.

Jennings, Michael (2013) 'Do Not Turn Away a Poor Man: Faith-Based Organisations and Development.' In: Clarke, Matthew, (ed.), Handbook of Research on Religion and Development. Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, pp. 359-375.

Jennings, Michael (2013) 'FBOs in Tanzania.' In: Clarke, Matthew, (ed.), Handbook of Research on Religion and Development. Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, pp. 491-504.

Jennings, Michael (2013) 'NGOs.' In: Cheeseman, Nic, Anderson, David M. and Scheibler, Andrea, (eds.), Routledge Handbook for African Politics. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 322-333.

Jennings, Michael (2007) 'HIV and AIDS.' In: Oxford Analytica, Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Issues to 2012. Oxford: Oxford Analytica, pp. 60-66.

Jennings, Michael (2006) 'Missions and maternal and child health care in colonial Tanganyika, 1919-1939.' In: Hardiman, David, (ed.), Healing bodies, saving souls : medical missions in Asia and Africa. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 227-250. (Clio medica, 80.)

Jennings, Michael (2006) 'Tanzania, 2001-2002.' In: Africa Contemporary Record. New York: Holmes and Meier, pp. 540-559.

Jennings, Michael (2006) 'Using Archives.' In: Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert B, (eds.), Doing Development Research. London: Sage Publications, pp. 241-250.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'A Century of Development: Policy and Process in Sub-Saharan Africa.' In: Africa South of the Sahara. London: Europa, pp. 30-35.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'Getting the Research Questions Right and Getting the Right Data.' In: Holland, Jeremy and Campbell, John, (eds.), Methods in Development Research: Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Rugby: ITDG Publications, pp. 27-36.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'A Short History of Failure? Development Processes over the Course of the Twentieth Century.' In: Huque, Ahmed Shafiqul and Zafarullah, Habib, (eds.), Handbook of International Development Governance. New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 599-610.

Campbell, John (2001) 'Drawing a line between autonomy and Governance: The state, civil society and NGOs in Ethiopia.' In: Barrow, Ondine and Jennings, Michael, (eds.), The Charitable Impulse. NGOs and Development in East and North East Africa. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian, pp. 149-66.

Journal Article

Feeny, Simon, Clarke, Matthew, Westhorp, Gill, Jennings, Michael and Donohue, Cara (2023) 'Impacts of child sponsorship communications: findings from World Vision programmes.' Development in Practice, 33 (3). pp. 280-290.

van Wees, Sibylle Herzig, Sop, Maturin Desire Sop, Betsi, Emmanuel, Olongo, Silvere Antoine and Jennings, Michael (2021) 'The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system.' Global Public Health, 16 (6). pp. 895-910.

van Wees, Sibylle Herzig and Jennings, Michael (2021) 'The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector: a qualitative study.' Health Policy and Planning, 36 (4). pp. 464-472.

Jennings, Michael, Clarke, Matthew, Feeny, Simon, Westhorp, Gill and Donohue, Cara (2020) 'A Potent Fuel?: Faith Identity And Development Impact In World Vision Community Programming.' Journal of International Development, 33 (1). pp. 70-85.

Jennings, Michael (2015) 'The precariousness of the franchise state: Voluntary sector health services and international NGOs in Tanzania, 1960s – mid-1980s.' Social Science and Medicine, 141. pp. 1-8.

Jennings, Michael (2013) 'Common Counsel, Common Policy: Healthcare, Missions and the Rise of the ‘Voluntary Sector’ in Colonial Tanzania.' Development and Change, 44 (4). pp. 939-963.

Jennings, Michael and Mercer, Claire (2011) 'Réhabiliter les nationalismes : convivialité et conscience nationale en Tanzanie post-coloniale’ [Rehabilitating Nationalisms: Conviviality and National Consciousness in Post-Colonial Tanzania].' Politique Africaine, 121. pp. 87-106.

Jennings, Michael (2009) 'Building Better People: Modernity and Utopia in Late Colonial Tanganyika.' Journal of Eastern African Studies, 3 (1). pp. 94-111.

Jennings, Michael (2008) 'Healing of Bodies, Salvation of Souls’: Missionary Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika, 1870s-1939.' Journal of Religion in Africa, 38 (1). pp. 27-56.

Jennings, Michael (2007) '"A Very Real War": Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s and 1960s.' International Journal of African Historical Studies, 40 (1). pp. 71-95.

Jennings, Michael and Burton, Andrew (2007) 'The Emperor's New Clothes? Continuities in governance in late colonial and early post-colonial East Africa.' International Journal of African Historical Studies, 40 (1). pp. 1-25.

Jennings, Michael (2005) 'Chinese Medicine and Medical Pluralism in Dar es Salaam: Globalisation or Glocalisation?' International Relations, 19 (4). pp. 457-474.

Jennings, Michael (2003) ''We Must Run While Others Walk': Popular Participation and Development Crisis in Tanzania, 1961-9.' The Journal of Modern African Studies, 41 (2). pp. 163-187.

Jennings, Michael (2002) '"Almost an Oxfam in Itself": Oxfam, Ujamaa and Development in Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s.' African Affairs, 101 (405). pp. 509-30.

Jennings, Michael (2002) 'This Mysterious and Intangible Enemy: health and disease amongst the early UMCA missionaries 1860 - 1918.' Social History of Medicine, 15 (1). pp. 65-87.

Monographs and Working Papers

Jennings, Michael (2011) ‘Cash-on-Delivery’ Aid : A Red Herring or the Future of Aid? London: Centre for Development Policy and Research, Development Viewpoint 62.

Other

Jennings, Michael (2015) 'Kenya: Recent History.' In: Africa South of the Sahara 2016. London: Europa.

Jennings, Michael (2015) 'Tanzania: Recent History.' In: Africa South of the Sahara 2016. London: Europa.

Jennings, Michael (2015) 'Uganda: Recent History.' In: Africa South of the Sahara 2016. London: Europa.

Jennings, Michael (2014) 'Beyond the Tangles of Civil Society.' Journal of the OASIS International Foundation (19). pp. 34-38.

Jennings, Michael (2012) 'International NGOs must address their accountability deficit.' The Guardian Poverty Matters Blog .

Jennings, Michael (2011) 'Buying cheap isn’t always best for development.' The Guardian Poverty Matters Blog .

Jennings, Michael (2009) 'Commentary on “Five reasons why Africa matters to the world”.' Europe's World, 13 .

Jennings, Michael (2008) 'The Mo Ibrahim Prize and Governance Index.' Royal African Society Website .