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The NGO sector stands accused by some of complacency and self-interest, on the one hand, and of being ineffectual and irrelevant on the other. NGOs are increasingly challenged […] View resource Research report Climate Change: The implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy 01/10/2000 1 documents 24 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Climate change adaptation Overview Report on the impacts of climate change and the implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy. View resource Journal article NGOs, disasters, and advocacy: caught between the Prophet and the Shepherd Boy 01/08/2000 11 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Development methods Humanitarian practice Overview Is it preferable for aid agencies to listen to their prophetic calling and risk their hard-earned credibility by engaging in advocacy that is intended to avert disasters, or should NGOs instead be wary of calling wolf too often? Written from the perspective of an advocacy practitioner, this article looks at the conflicting pressures on NGOs […] View resource Journal article Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy 01/08/2000 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Development methods Finance World Bank and IMF Overview NGO advocacy is sometimes portrayed in a heroic light, but efforts to influence World Bank-supported economic policies confront considerable ambiguity. Influence is difficult to demonstrate, but advocacy should be more rigorously assessed in the interest of transparency and effectiveness. Two (partial) solutions to this ambiguity are to focus on the process of NGO campaigns themselves; […] View resource Journal article Northern NGO advocacy: perceptions, reality, and the challenge 01/08/2000 8 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Development methods Overview This article reports the results of and conclusions from a survey of Northern NGOs conducted during 1998 and 1999 for the purposes of testing generalised criticisms of Northern NGO advocacy and providing benchmarks for further research on the policy impact of the Washington Advocacy office of Oxfam International. Based on the survey findings, the author […] View resource Book Development and Social Action 01/01/1999 1 documents 195 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Civil society Development methods Overview Civil-society organisations are playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting policy change in favour of poor people, whether through advocacy or through direct action mid popular mobilisation. In the global realignment following the end of the Cold War. the challenge is to move from mere protest and opposition to constructive forms of engagement, both with […] View resource Book Impact Assessment for Development Agencies: Learning to value change 01/01/1999 5 documents 322 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Conflict Development methods Disasters Overview This book considers the process of impact assessment and shows how and why it needs to be integrated into all stages of development programmes from planning to evaluation. Its basic premise is that impact assessment should refer not to the immediate outputs or effects of a project or programme, but to any lasting or significant […] View resource Journal article I am Witness to…’: A profile of Sakshi Violence Intervention Centre in New Delhi, India 01/11/1998 6 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender-based violence Overview In her work on violence against women, Aanchal Kapur has been inspired by Sakshi, a group working in New Delhi since the early 1990s. In writing this profile of Sakshi, she hopes that others will be inspired, in turn, to join in the struggle against violence. It should become an integral part of networking and […] View resource Journal article NGOs and advocacy: how well are the poor represented? 01/08/1998 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Development methods Finance Overview There is a widespread perception that Southern non-governmental organizations (NGOs) best represent the authentic voices of the Southern poor. This article challenges this perception, arguing that poor people in general, and children and women in particular, continue to be disenfranchised, while NGOs-both Northern and Southern-offer a poor imitation of their voices. It argues that what […] View resource Journal article Ambivalent messages: organizational purposes of NGOs and images of the South 01/02/1998 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Development methods Media Overview The author considers how Northern NGOs present the South, in order to recruit volunteers and fundraise. Negative and positive images have been used to illicit feelings of pity and self-satisfaction respectively. Here, the author describes the effects of using different images, and argues that NGOs should be educating and building long-term supporters by substantiating the […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know