Can NGOs Make a Difference?: The Challenge of Development Alternatives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842778927 ISBN 13: 9781842778920

Publisher: Zed Books, 2008

Synopsis

Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others?  Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of critical new directions to thinking and acting around the challenge of development alternatives. The book's originality comes from the wide-range of new case-study material it presents, the conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about development alternatives, and the practical suggestions for NGOs.

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony J. Bebbington is Professor of Nature, Society and Development at the University of Manchester. Sam Hickey is lecturer in the International Development at the University of Manchester. Diana C. Mitlin is an economist and social development specialist at the University of Manchester.

Review:

'This is a timely addition to the literature on non-governmental organisations and development. Up-to-date, critical and historically informed, its seventeen chapters are written by a potent combination of both well-known experts and original new voices.' David Lewis, London School of Economics and Political Science 'This book offers a novel and reflective framework for revisiting NGO's efficacy in fashioning alternative forms of development in the post-NGO boom period. Against current security agendas, the authors envision types of NGO practice, orientation, and focus that that hold out hope for their foundational mission of "being alternative."' Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill `These essays ... provide a number of useful insights into the NGO world.' North South Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1842778927
• ISBN 13: 9781842778920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Bebbington Anthony, Hickey Samuel, Mitlin Diana C.