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Can NGOs make a difference? : the challenge of development alternatives /

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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 direction...

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Other Authors: Bebbington, Anthony, 1962-, Hickey, Samuel, 1972-, Mitlin, Diana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, England : Zed Books, 2008.
Subjects:
Non-governmental organizations > Evaluation > Congresses.
Development studies
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
NGO
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.