• 1.Introduction
• Tina Wallace and Fenella Porter
• Section One – A Perfect Storm
• 2.Development from the ground: A worm’s eye view
• Stan Thekaekara
• 3.Evaluation, complexity, uncertainty – theories of change and some alternatives
• Chris Mowles
• 4. Losing Sight of our Purpose?
• Suzanne Walker
• 5. Can girls save the world?
• Kate Grosser and Nikki van der Gaag
• 6. Lost in Translation: Gender Mainstreaming in Afghanistan
• Anastasiya Hozyainova
• 7. Insulating the Developing Classes
• Tom Scott-Smith
• 8. Reconnecting Development Policy, People and History
• David Lewis
• Section Two – Changing conversations
• 9. Taking our lead from reality - an open practice for social development
• David Harding
• 10. Women on wheels
• Meenu Vadera
• 11.Too young to be women, too old to be girls: The [Un]Changing Aid landscape and the reality of girls at risk
• Seri Wendoh
• 12. Looking Beyond the Numbers: reducing violence against women in Ghana
• Kanwal Ahluwalia
• 13. From local to global and back again – learning from Stepping Stones
• Alice Welbourn
• 14.Peace Practice Examined
• Bridget Walker
• 15. I don’t know ... and related thoughts
• Ashish Shah
• 16.Apolitical stories of sanitation and suffering women
• Deepa Joshi
• 17.Conclusion
• Tina Wallace

Tina Wallace Tina Wallace has worked in development, as an academic, practitioner and activist for over 35 years and has conducted reviews with the major NGOs including Oxfam, ActionAid, WaterAid, Amnesty International, as well as IIED and the UK’s Department for International Development.

Fenella Porter Fenella Porter lectures in development at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been an activist and researcher on development and gender, with NGOs and women’s organizations in Africa and the UK.