Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives

by Bebbington, Anthony; Hickey, Samuel; Mitlin, Diana C.

• ISBN13: 9781842778920
• ISBN10: 1842778927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: locating alternatives

Editors. Reclaiming development? NGOs and the challenge of alternatives

Mike Edwards. Have NGOs made a difference?

Alternatives under pressure

Pim Verhallen.

Pressures on INGOs - will they be able to make a difference?

Alan Fowler. NGOs and the challenge of the new security agenda

Alan Thomas. Whatever Happened to Reciprocity? Implications of Donor Emphasis on 'Voice' and 'Efficiency' as Rationales for Working with NGOs in Development

Evelina Dagnino. Civil society is (much) more than NGOs

Pursuing alternatives: NGO strategies in practice

Irene Guijt, Assessing the Entry Points for Civil Society Engagement: Using a Power Perspective

Mary Racelis. Power, partnerships and poverty reduction: the case of the Philippines

Amy Pollard and Julius Court. How Civil Society Organisations Use Evidence to Influence Policy Processes: The importance of the three 'I's'

Nicholas Pialek. Gender Mainstreaming in Development Organisations: Policy, Practice and Institutional Change

Ileana Gomez, Nelson Cuellar

Bebbington Research NGOs and the struggle for the public sphere

Being alternative

Vasudha Chhotray. Development Agents or Political Entrepreneurs: an NGO's Story of Resistance and Acquiescence

Katie Bristow Transforming or Conforming - NGOs Training Health Promoters and the Dominant Paradigm of the Development Industry in Bolivia

Helen Yancopoulos and Matt Smith. The Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism of NGOs

Slum Dwellers International, with Diana Mitlin. NGOs and social movements: being alternative in the struggle for shelter

Conclusions

Editors: Conclusion: New Metaphors for NGOs

David Hulme. Reflections on the state of NGOs in development

Paul Opoku-Mensah. Two decades of NGOs alternatives: where are we now?

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