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A development-management interactive workshop

This workshop was hosted by the Open University (OU), inviting development practitioners, academics and OU associates to share ideas about the design of a new OU Diploma/Master's Programme in Development Management. The author reports on the participants' ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55

Empowerment and Survival: Humanitarian Work in Civil Conflict (Part I)

This two-part article explores the experience of living and working for a poverty-focused NGO in a civil war whose roots lay in the chronically inequitable distribution of power and access to resources. Based on 12 years' work in Central America, principa ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56

Ambivalent messages: organisational purposes of NGOs and images of the South

The author considers how Northern NGOs present the South, in order to recruit volunteers and fundraise. Negative and positive images have been used to illicit feelings of pity and self-satisfaction respectively. Here, the author describes the effects of u ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58

Which knowledge? Whose reality? An overview of knowledge used in the development sector

This article provides an overview of issues relating to the use of knowledge by development organisations. It starts by exploring the various definitions of knowledge which exist in a world of many cultures and intellectual traditions and the role of lang ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Taking the power out of empowerment - an experiential account

This article traces the centuries-long evolution of the concept and practice of empowerment, its adoption by radical social movements, especially women’s movements from the 1970s onwards, and its conversion, by the late 1990s, into a buzzword. Situating t ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05

Post-hoc review of involuntary resettlement issues in two power generation projects

Two energy development projects were examined as the basis of recommending improvements in how resettlement issues are handled. One of these illustrated the [INS: following :INS] problems: lack of a proper communication channel from the implementing body ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08

Another invasion: lessons from the international support to East Timorese NGOs

This article seeks to contribute to the debate on collaboration between national and international NGOs. It argues that it is vital for the development of stable, independent, and viable civil societies that the international NGOs promote a bottom-up appr ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Development, Civil Society and Faith-based Organisations