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Debating Development: NGOs and the future
Co-edited and introduced by Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen
Non-government organisations 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 represetatives of NGOs development think-tanks, and civil-society organisations, as well as scholars and activiists, ask: What model of international co-operation 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.
