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Author Brinkman, Inge.

Title Bricks, Mortar and Capacity Building : a Socio-Cultural History of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation / by Inge Brinkman ; in cooperation with Anne-Lot Hoek
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages)
Series Afrika-studiecentrum series ; v. 18
Afrika-Studiecentrum series.
Contents Introduction -- Merchants and ministers: understanding SNV's background -- SNV's start: bricks, mortar and the transfer of knowledge (1963-1972) -- The years of radical commitment: democratisation and secularisation (1973-1984) -- Expertise expected: the professionalisation of SNV (1985-1994) -- Building capacity: SNV at the millennium (1995-2005) -- Final remarks
Summary The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now. Through SNV's history, an analysis emerges of the role of the Netherlands in development cooperation and the attitudes of Dutch society towards it over the Last fifty years as well as the changing ideas, practices and policies development work more generally. The views and expectations of (former) SNV staff and those of local participants who were ultimately to benefit from the development activities were the focus of this historical research. This has resulted in a socio-cultural history 'from below' rather than a dry description of the organisation's administrative changes and formal bureaucratic Structures. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject SNV (Organization) -- History
SUBJECT SNV (Organization) fast
Subject Nonprofit organizations -- Netherlands -- History
International agencies -- Netherlands -- History
Economic assistance, Dutch -- Developing countries
Technical assistance, Dutch -- Developing countries
Economic development -- Developing countries
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Economic assistance, Dutch
Economic development
International agencies
Nonprofit organizations
Technical assistance, Dutch
Developing countries
Netherlands
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hoek, Anne-Lot.
ISBN 9789004187641
9004187642
9789004187412
9004187413