| Description |
x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : can NGOs make a difference? The challenge of development alternatives / Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin -- Have NGOs 'made a difference?' From Manchester to Birmingham with an elephant in the room / Michael Edwards -- Challenges to participation, citizenship and democracy : perverse confluence and displacement of meanings / Evelina Dagnino -- Learning from Latin America : recent trends in European NGO policymaking / Kees Biekart -- Whatever happened to reciprocity? Implications of donor emphasis on 'voice' and 'impact' as rationales for working with NGOs in development / Alan Thomas -- Development and the new security agenda : w(h)ither(ing) NGO alternatives? / Alan Fowler -- How civil society organizations use evidence to influence policy processes / Amy Pollard and Julius Court -- Civil society participation as the focus of northern NGO support : the case of Dutch co-financing agencies / Irene Guijt -- Producing knowledge, generating alternatives? Challenges to research-oriented NGOs in Central America and Mexico / Cynthia Bazán [and others] -- Anxieties and affirmations : NGO-donor partnerships for social transformation 196 / Mary Racelis -- Reinventing international NGOs : a view from the Dutch co-financing system / Harry Derksen and Pim Verhallen -- Transforming or conforming? NGOs training health promoters and the dominant paradigm of the development industry in Bolivia / Katie S. Bristow -- Political entrepreneurs or development agents : an NGO's tale of resistance and acquiescence in Madhya Pradesh, India / Vasudha Chhotray -- Is this really the end of the road for gender mainstreaming? Getting to grips with gender and institutional change / Nicholas Piálek -- The ambivalent cosmopolitanism of international NGOs / Helen Yanacopulos and Matt Baillie Smith -- Development as reform and counter-reform : paths travelled by Slum/Shack Dwellers International / Joel Bolnick -- Reflections on NGOs and development : the elephant, the dinosaur, several tigers but no owl / David Hulme |
| Summary |
Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? This book provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of critical new directions to thinking and acting around the challenge of development alternatives. The book's originality comes from the wide-range of new case-study material it presents, the conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about development alternatives, and the practical suggestions for NGOs. At the heart of this book is the argument that NGOs can and must re-engage with the project of seeking alternative development futures for the world's poorest and more marginal. This will require clearer analysis of the contemporary problems of uneven development, and a clear understanding of the types of alliances NGOs need to construct with other actors in civil society if they are to mount a credible challenge to disempowering processes of economic, social and political development. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Non-governmental organizations -- Evaluation.
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| Author |
Bebbington, Anthony, 1962-
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Hickey, Samuel, 1972-
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Mitlin, Diana.
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| ISBN |
9781842778920 hardback |
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9781842778937 paperback |
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