Can NGOs make a difference?
Subtitle: the challenge of development alternatives
By: edited by Anthony Bebbington, Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin.
Contributors: Bebbington, Anthony, 1962-; Hickey, Samuel, 1972-; Mitlin, Diana.
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781842778920; 9781842778937
Subjects: Non-governmental organizations -- Evaluation -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : can NGOs make a difference? The challenge of development alternatives / Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin; title: Have NGOs 'made a difference?' From Manchester to Birmingham with an elephant in the room / Michael Edwards; title: Challenges to participation, citizenship and democracy : perverse confluence and displacement of meanings / Evelina Dagnino; title: Learning from Latin America : recent trends in European NGO policymaking / Kees Biekart; title: Whatever happened to reciprocity? Implications of donor emphasis on 'voice' and 'impact' as rationales for working with NGOs in development / Alan Thomas; title: Development and the new security agenda : w(h)ither(ing) NGO alternatives? / Alan Fowler; title: How civil society organizations use evidence to influence policy processes / Amy Pollard and Julius Court; title: Civil society participation as the focus of northern NGO support : the case of Dutch co-financing agencies / Irene Guijt; title: Producing knowledge, generating alternatives? Challenges to research-oriented NGOs in Central America and Mexico / Cynthia Bazán ... [et al]; title: Anxieties and affirmations : NGO-donor partnerships for social transformation 196 / Mary Racelis; title: Reinventing international NGOs : a view from the Dutch co-financing system / Harry Derksen and Pim Verhallen; title: Transforming or conforming? NGOs training health promoters and the dominant paradigm of the development industry in Bolivia / Katie S. Bristow; title: Political entrepreneurs or development agents : an NGO's tale of resistance and acquiescence in Madhya Pradesh, India / Vasudha Chhotray; title: Is this really the end of the road for gender mainstreaming? Getting to grips with gender and institutional change / Nicholas Piálek; title: The ambivalent cosmopolitanism of international NGOs / Helen Yanacopulos and Matt Baillie Smith; title: Development as reform and counter-reform : paths travelled by Slum/Shack Dwellers International / Joel Bolnick; title: Reflections on NGOs and development : the elephant, the dinosaur, several tigers but no owl / David Hulme.