About the Book
Development NGOs now face a range of critical challenges. In a variety of contexts they are struggling to maintain their integrity and independence, while at the same time taking on a growing role in the fight against global poverty. David Lewis and Tina Wallace have assembled a broad and current study of this phenomenon—continual quest for greater relevance, improved accountability and better performance. Written by a dynamic combination of key researchers and practitioners, this book argues that only through an engagement at both local and global levels, and through effective learning strategies, will development NGOs stand a chance of contributing to poverty reduction efforts at a sustained level that makes an impact.
Contents
1 Increasing Leverage for Development: Challenges for NGOs in a Global Future / Michael Edwards, David Hulme, and Tina Wallace
Part I: Alternative Thinking about Development Concepts and Ideas2 Relief and Development: Disjuncture and Dissonance / Ian Smillie
3 Understanding Development as a Living Process / Allan Kaplan
4 The Future of Nongovernmental Organizations in a World of Civil Corporations / Simon Zadek
5 Understanding NGOs from the Perspective of New Institutional Economics: A Case Study from Ghana / John Cameron
6 Learning for Growth: Organizational Learning in South Asian NGOs / John Hailey
Part II: New Approaches to Influencing Policy7 Civil Society: Technical Instrument or Social Force for Change? / Jude Howell and Jenny Pearce
8 Making the Connection: Legitimacy Claims, Legitimacy Chains and Northern NGOs' International Advocacy / Alan Hudson
9 NGOs, Democratization, and Good Governance: The Case of Bangladesh / Mahbubul Karim
10 Civil Society, Empowerment, Democratic Pluralism, and Poverty Reduction: Delivering the Goods at National and Local Levels / Harry Blair
11 Stormy Weather: Microfmance, Shocks, and the Prospects for Sustain ability / Susan Johnson, Karen Doyle, M. Emrul Hasan, Eduardo Jimenez, and Thalia G. Kidder
12 Striving for Influence in a Complex Environment: NGO Advocacy in the European Union / Christian L. Freres
Part III: Innovations in Development Practice13 The Importance of People on the Ground in International Campaigns / Jennifer Chapman
14 Think Globally, Act Locally: Translating International Microcredit Experience into the United Kingdom Context / Ruth Pearson
15 NGOs and Local Organizations: A Mismatch of Goals and Practice? / Sarah Crowther
16 Microenterprise and Microfinance: The New Kids on the Block / Pat Richardson and Karen Langdon
17 NGOs and Peace Building in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: States, Civil Societies, and Companies in the New Millennium / Pamela Mbabazi and Timothy M. Shaw
18 An Actor-Oriented Approach to Micro and Small Enterprise Development: A Namibian Case Study / Stephen Biggs and Frank R. Matsaert
19 "Implementation by Proxy": The Next Step in Power Relationships between Northern and Southern NGOs? / Margaret Simbi and Graham Thom
About the Author / Editor
David Lewis is a lecturer at the Centre for Civil Society, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Tina Wallace works part-time as a senior lecturer/researcher in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, and as a consultant to the NGO sector.
