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Development, NGOs and Civil Society
Series: Development in Practice Reader
Published: 2000
Pages: 196
eBook: 9780855987015
Paperback: 9780855984427
Experienced practitioners and academics provide an insightful look into the limitations of NGOs in claiming to represent and assist 'civil society'. Changes in approaches to development are situated within changes in global political economy. Relations between donors, states and NGOs are also considered in specific contexts. The volume outlines many of the tensions NGOs face in claiming to speak for the poor while also remaining accountable to national and international actors. Together the authors provide an excellent overview of these important issues.
- Contributors
- Preface Deborah Eade
- Development, NGOs, and civil society: the debate and its future Jenny Pearce
- Scaling up NGO impact on development: learning from experience Michael Edwards and David Hulme
- Help yourself by helping The Poor Gino Lofredo
- NGOs: ladles in the global soup kitchen? Stephen Commins
- Collaboration with the South: agents of aid or solidarity? Firoze Manji
- Corporate governance for NGOs? Mick Moore and Sheelagh Stewart
- ‘Dancing with the prince’: NGOs’ survival strategies in the Afghan conflict Jonathan Goodhand with Peter Chamberlain
- NGOs and the State: a case-study from Uganda Christy Cannon
- NGOs, the poor, and local government Christopher Collier
- Let’s get civil society straight: NGOs, the state, and political theory Alan Whaites
- Depoliticising development: the uses and abuses of participation Sarah C. White
- Birds of a feather? UNDP and ActionAid implementation of Sustainable Human Development Lilly Nicholls
- Strengthening civil society: participatory action research in a militarised state Amina Mama
- Annotated bibliography
Deborah Eade
Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.
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