Introductory essay: NGOs and the future: taking stock, shaping debates, changing practice (PDF 323k)
Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen
Good news! You may be out of a job: reflections on the past and future 50 years for Northern NGOs (PDF 576k)
Alison Van Rooy
Riding high or nosediving: development NGOs in the new millennium
Rajesh Tandon (PDF 345k)
International NGOs and the challenge of modernity (PDF 364k)
Brian K. Murphy
Globalisation, civil society, and the multilateral system (PDF 366k)
José Antonio Alonso
The World Bank, neo-liberalism, and power: discourse analysis and implications for campaigners (PDF 338k)
Andy Storey
Dissonance or dialogue: changing relations with the corporate sector (PDF 320k)
Judy Henderson
NGOs as development partners to the corporates: child football-stitchers in Pakistan (PDF 348k)
David Husselbee
NGOs: fragmented dreams (PDF 351k)
Jaime Joseph
Indicators of identity: NGOs and the strategic imperative of assessing core values (PDF 325k)
John Hailey
Development agencies: global or solo players? (PDF 342k)
Sylvia Borren
Coming to grips with organisational values (PDF 392k)
Vijay Padaki
We NGOs: a controversial way of being and acting (PDF 335k)
Cândido Grzybowski
Northern NGO advocacy: perceptions, reality, and the challenge (PDF 332k)
Ian Anderson
Campaigning: a fashion or the best way to change the global agenda? (PDF 329k)
Gerd Leipold
The international anti-debt campaign: a Southern activist view for activists in ‘the North’ … and ‘the South’ (PDF 378k)
Dot Keet
Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy (PDF 352k)
Paul Nelson
Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development: the mixing of a rights-based solution (PDF 313k)
Hugo Slim
Aid: a mixed blessing (PDF 332k)
Mary B. Anderson
The Sudan experience of the Local Capacities for Peace Project (PDF 312k)
Abikök Riak
NGOs, disasters, and advocacy: caught between the Prophet and the Shepherd Boy (PDF 344k)
Alan Whaites
Capacity building: shifting the paradigms of practice (PDF 330k)
Allan Kaplan
Gendering the millennium: globalising women (PDF 332k)
Haleh Afshar
Gender in development: a long haul – but we're getting there! (PDF 328k)
Josefina Stubbs
Impact assessment: seeing the wood and the trees (PDF 347k)
Chris Roche
Does Matson matter? Assessing the impact of a UK neighbourhood project (PDF 358k)
Stan Thekaekara
Annotated bibliography (PDF 357k)
Debating Development: NGOs and the Future
Co-edited and introduced by Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen
NGOs working in the humanitarian and development sectors won official approval in the 1980s and 1990s, but there are signs now that they are losing favour. The NGO sector stands acused by some of complacency and self-interest, on the one hand, and of being ineffectual and irrelevant on the other. NGOs are increasingly challenged to demonstrate their legitimacy as respresentative voices of civil society. NGOs themselves are taking a hard look at their mandates, their core values, and their role on a changing international stage. Contributors to this volume reflect on what kind of development will eradicate poverty, and what types of agency are best suited to the task. Leading representatives of NGOs development think-tanks, and civil society organisations (CSOs), as well as scholars and activists, ask: What model of international cooperation can deliver social and economic justice? And what does this mean for NGOs in the future?
This book is based on the tenth-anniversary double issue of Development in Practice, co-edited by Deborah Eade, Editor of the journal, and Ernst Ligteringen, Executive Director of Oxfam International.
© Oxfam GB 2001. First published by Oxfam GB in association with Oxfam International.
ISBN 0 85598 444 9
All rights reserved.
Also available in Spanish from Intermón Oxfam under the title El debate sobre el desarrollo y el futuro de las ONG, 2004, ISBN 84 8452 239 3.
‘…..contributes to a deeper and critical understanding of the issue of partnership and advocacy ... provides insights on advocacy strategies, campaigns, and process of discourse formation and emphasises the need for NGOs to demonstrate the effectiveness of their advocacy work [from] diverse perspectives and viewpoints ... The diversity of contributors adds to the richness of the debate ... covers a vast canvas ... assists in tracing the dilemmas facing NGOs ....’
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