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Synopsis
Significant proportions of aid already flow through the non-governmental sector, but questions are increasingly being asked about the role of NGOs and whether they can deliver on their ambitious claims. This study examines conditionality and mutual commitment between international aid donors and recipient NGOs, North and South.
Fieldwork and case study material from Uganda and South Africa are used to support the authors’ contention that the fast changing aid sector has--in the context of a dynamic policy environment--encouraged the mainstreaming of a managerial approach that does not admit of any analysis of power relations or cultural diversity. This increasing--essentially technical-- definition of the roles of NGOs has worked to limit the extent of the very development that the organizations were initially established to promote.
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About the Author
Tina Wallace is an independent development consultant who has specialized in management and gender issues. She has studied and taught in Africa and Europe and has extensive NGO experience. She is now based in the UK, and teaches at Oxford Brookes University.
Lisa Bornstein worked for many years at the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, where she was head of the SA research, and she is now teaching and researching at the University of McGill in Canada. She specializes in planning and development issues.
Jennifer Chapman is currently working freelance, after three years heading an action research program for ActionAid on the evaluation of advocacy work by development NGOs. She has extensive research and practical experience with NGOs and is currently developing a manual on understanding and learning from advocacy and policy work.
Review
"[A] scholarly and readable guide....this work will be a classic." (Tony Benn)
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- PublisherUniversity Of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1869141180
- ISBN 13 9781869141189
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages228
- EditorTina Wallace
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