Debating Development

Book Details

• Author: Deborah Eade

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2006

• ISBN: 8170339928

• Pages: 420

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches

About the Book

Non-government organizations (NGOs) working in the humanitarian and development sectors gained official approval in the 1980s and 1990s, but there are increasing signs that their influence is waning. The NGO sector is accused by some of complacency and self-interest, while others claim it is ineffectual and irrelevant. NGOs are under pressure to prove their legitimacy as true representatives of civil society. As a result, many NGOs are critically examining their mandates, core values, and their evolving role on the international stage.

This volume features reflections from leading figures in NGOs, development think tanks, civil society organizations, scholars, and activists. The contributors address pressing questions such as: What kind of development will eliminate poverty, and which agencies are best suited to this task? What model of international cooperation can ensure social and economic justice? How can NGOs adapt to continue playing a crucial role in global development in the future?

Contents:

• Development in Practice, Oxfam International, and Debating Development Contributors

• NGOs and the future; taking stock, shaping debates, changing practice

• Good news! You may be out of a job: reflections on the past and future 50 years for Northern NGOs

• Riding high or nosediving: development NGOs in the new millennium

• International NGOs and the challenge of modernity

• Globalisation, civil society, and the multilateral system

• The World Bank, neo-liberalism, and power: discourse analysis and implications for campaigners

• Dissonance or dialogue: Changing relations with the corporate sector

• NGOs as development partners to the corporates: child football-stitchers in Pakistan

• NGOs: fragmented dream

• Indicators of identity: NGOs and the strategic imperative of assessing core values

• Development agencies: global or solo players?

• Coming to grips with organisational values

• We NGOs: a controversial way of being and acting

• Northern NGO advocacy: perceptions, reality, and the challenge

• Campaigning: A fashion or the best way to change the global agenda?

About the Author

Ernst Ligteringen is the Executive Director of Oxfam International, a leading humanitarian and development organization working globally to alleviate poverty and social injustice.