Can NGOs make a difference? : the challenge of development alternatives / edited by Anthony Bebbington, Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2008Description: x, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781842778920 (cased); 1842778927 (cased); 1842778935 (pbk.); 9781842778937 (pbk.)Subject(s): Non-governmental organizations -- Evaluation -- Congresses | NGODDC classification: 338.91 LOC classification: JZ4841 | .C36 2008| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 ... [et al] -- 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.

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