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

01/08/2000

8 pages long

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NGO campaigns have become increasingly high profile in recent years. Three contemporary examples are critically examined (Brent Spar, landmines, and international debt), both in terms of the various ingredients behind their success, and in relation to their real significance and long-term impact. The author looks at the trade-offs, challenges, and opportunities for NGO-sponsored campaigns within […]

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

01/08/2000

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This article examines why the World Bank adopted neo-liberal economic policies. It argues that neo-liberal discourse favoured the interests of key Northern actors, and, more surprisingly, that it also allowed many Southern state actors to maintain or extend their political power. This is because World Bank discourse offers little or no political analysis of the […]

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International NGOs and the challenge of modernity

01/08/2000

18 pages long

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The forces associated with economic globalisation and the apparent supremacy of market forces have unleashed a range of political and social processes that have served, and were indeed designed, to enrich and empower the few at the expense of the majority. These include phenomena such as the rise in armed conflict, threats to food security, […]

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Capacity building: shifting the paradigms of practice

01/08/2000

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Capacity building is now one of the most frequently invoked of current development concepts and yet it continues to defy a shared definition of what it means in practice. Is it possible that capacity building demands such a radically new form of practice, such a radically new form of thinking, that our current approaches are […]

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Gendering the millennium: globalising women

01/08/2000

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Gendering the millennium: globalising women

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As the century has just changed for the Western calendar it should be borne in mind that for a vast part of the world the centuries are rolling at a different time and under different conditions. So, although we live and trade in a ‘global village’ we are yet divided by time, space, and ideologies. […]

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Development agencies: global or solo players?

01/08/2000

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This paper questions whether development agencies and their staff, at whatever level (community-based organisations, national or international NGOs) are sufficiently clear about their own values and roles, and seeks to analyse tensions and dilemmas that arise when roles are confused. Clarity about the roles of the people and agencies involved is essential for the development […]

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We NGOs: a controversial way of being and acting

01/08/2000

9 pages long

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While the forces of globalisation have intensified economic polarisation, diverse social movements worldwide are struggling to defend the public interest and to promote a more rights-based and sustainable form of organising human society. In allying themselves with the causes of the dispossessed at the local level, and raising international awareness of such issues, NGOs have […]

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

01/08/2000

6 pages long

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The author argues that the distinctive values common to many NGOs give them a particular advantage over other types of organisation. This perspective should be seen in the context of donors’ increasing willingness to fund non-traditional development actors, including the military, parastatals, quangos, private service contractors, and consultancy firms. To distinguish themselves from other recipients […]

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NGOs: fragmented dreams

01/08/2000

12 pages long

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Development NGOs are in crisis. They are losing their capacity to engage in critical analysis and propose global solutions; to react to or seize the political initiative; or to situate themselves on the cutting edge of those social and political processes in which new approaches and potential solutions might be found. While some NGOs have […]

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Coming to grips with organisational values

01/08/2000

16 pages long

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Every organisation has certain core convictions about its endeavours and about the ways to go about its work. When these convictions are translated into relatively enduring practices they can be called organisational values. Managing an organisation’s value system is an important strategic task in itself, and the concepts and methods for undertaking this task are […]

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