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The Local Capacities for Peace Project: the Sudan experience

01/08/2000

5 pages long

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This paper examines the application of the Local Capacities for Peace framework in field operations in Sudan, and identifies lessons learned about planning and implementation in the World Vision programme over a 20-month period. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Aid: a mixed blessing

01/08/2000

6 pages long

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Despite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relationship, and be more judicious in determining their proper role. The author calls for aid providers and […]

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Does Matson matter? Assessing the impact of a UK neighbourhood project

01/08/2000

17 pages long

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The question of how development agencies should assess their impact has no simple answers and so is often either unasked, or is framed in terms that privilege time-bound and quantitative findings. Describing a council estate neighbourhood project in the UK, the author probes the understandings and perceptions of different stakeholders concerning what they believe has […]

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NGOs, disasters, and advocacy: caught between the Prophet and the Shepherd Boy

01/08/2000

11 pages long

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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 […]

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Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy

01/08/2000

13 pages long

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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; […]

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Northern NGO advocacy: perceptions, reality, and the challenge

01/08/2000

8 pages long

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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 […]

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Dissonance or dialogue: changing relations with the corporate sector

01/08/2000

6 pages long

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In recent years, both the corporate sector and civil society organisations, particularly international NGOs, have become more influential in shaping development debates and policies. There is increasing awareness within the corporate sector of the need to demonstrate social responsibility; and growing acceptance among NGOs that business is essential to the economic growth which will fuel […]

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Globalisation, civil society, and the multilateral system

01/08/2000

13 pages long

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This paper analyses the significance and scope of globalisation, focusing on its implications for the autonomy of national actors, on the one hand, and on the new demands that global governance imposes upon multilateral action, on the other. It is argued that the current form of globalisation is in fact compatible with some degree of […]

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The international anti-debt campaign: a Southern activist view for activists in ‘the North’…and ‘the South’

01/08/2000

17 pages long

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The growing crisis of external indebtedness in the South has become the focus not only of multilateral policy debate, but also the subject of an increasingly vocal international anti-debt campaign, the influence of which was clear at the abortive World Trade Organisation at Seattle in late 1999. Though effective, the anti-debt campaign encompasses a range […]

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Gender in development: a long haul-but we’re getting there!

01/08/2000

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Gender in development: a long haul-but we’re getting there!

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While women’s movements in Latin America and elsewhere have succeeded in putting many issues that are relevant to women and to gender relations onto the political agenda, and although most international aid agencies have made efforts to incorporate gender analysis into their work, this progress has been neither comprehensive nor unproblematic. This article focuses on […]

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