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Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line

01/08/1999

19 pages long

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Viewpoints based on ‘Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line’, ‘ICVA’s near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International” and ‘Mission impossible? Creating partnerships among NGOs, governments, and donors’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding

01/02/1999

13 pages long

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This paper, based on a review of SIDA’s funding of NGOs in Bangladesh, explores the changing relationships between bilateral donors, Northern NGOs (NNGOs), and Southern NGOs (SNGOs). It compares direct and indirect funding routes between donors and SNGOs. Most SIDA funding of SNGOs was previously undertaken through Swedish NGOs. As SNGO competence and capacity has […]

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Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

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Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

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Scaling up the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya

01/08/2001

8 pages long

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Fodder shrubs provide great potential for increasing the income of smallholder dairy farmers. Following successful on-station and on-farm trials and considerable farmer-to-farmer dissemination in Embu District, Kenya, a project was initiated to introduce fodder shrubs to farmers across seven districts. Over a two-year period, a dissemination facilitator working through field-based partners assisted 150 farmer groups […]

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Facilitating the wider use of agroforestry for development in southern Africa

01/08/2001

15 pages long

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Southern Africa is experiencing severe degradation of the natural resource base caused by population growth and poverty. Agroforestry technologies that are now available have great potential to improve the livelihoods of many households. The paper describes some of the outcomes of technology development and how this has evolved into a more client-driven process. Regional development […]

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A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

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Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

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Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

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Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

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Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion

01/11/2003

8 pages long

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This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […]

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Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

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There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

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Combining worker and user interests in the health sector: trade unions and NGOs

01/02/2004

14 pages long

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This paper examines the relationship between workers in the health sector and users of health services as seen through two case studies of trade unions and NGOs working together, one in Malaysia and the other in South Africa. Despite a history of tensions between these two types of organisation, when they work together effectively the […]

Showing 316 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line

01/08/1999

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Viewpoints based on ‘Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line’, ‘ICVA’s near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International” and ‘Mission impossible? Creating partnerships among NGOs, governments, and donors’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding

01/02/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper, based on a review of SIDA’s funding of NGOs in Bangladesh, explores the changing relationships between bilateral donors, Northern NGOs (NNGOs), and Southern NGOs (SNGOs). It compares direct and indirect funding routes between donors and SNGOs. Most SIDA funding of SNGOs was previously undertaken through Swedish NGOs. As SNGO competence and capacity has […]

Journal article

Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

Journal article

Scaling up the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya

01/08/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fodder shrubs provide great potential for increasing the income of smallholder dairy farmers. Following successful on-station and on-farm trials and considerable farmer-to-farmer dissemination in Embu District, Kenya, a project was initiated to introduce fodder shrubs to farmers across seven districts. Over a two-year period, a dissemination facilitator working through field-based partners assisted 150 farmer groups […]

Journal article

Facilitating the wider use of agroforestry for development in southern Africa

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Southern Africa is experiencing severe degradation of the natural resource base caused by population growth and poverty. Agroforestry technologies that are now available have great potential to improve the livelihoods of many households. The paper describes some of the outcomes of technology development and how this has evolved into a more client-driven process. Regional development […]

Journal article

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

Journal article

Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

Journal article

Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […]

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Combining worker and user interests in the health sector: trade unions and NGOs

01/02/2004

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the relationship between workers in the health sector and users of health services as seen through two case studies of trade unions and NGOs working together, one in Malaysia and the other in South Africa. Despite a history of tensions between these two types of organisation, when they work together effectively the […]

Showing 316 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line

01/08/1999

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Viewpoints based on ‘Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line’, ‘ICVA’s near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International” and ‘Mission impossible? Creating partnerships among NGOs, governments, and donors’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding

01/02/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper, based on a review of SIDA’s funding of NGOs in Bangladesh, explores the changing relationships between bilateral donors, Northern NGOs (NNGOs), and Southern NGOs (SNGOs). It compares direct and indirect funding routes between donors and SNGOs. Most SIDA funding of SNGOs was previously undertaken through Swedish NGOs. As SNGO competence and capacity has […]

Journal article

Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

Journal article

Scaling up the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya

01/08/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fodder shrubs provide great potential for increasing the income of smallholder dairy farmers. Following successful on-station and on-farm trials and considerable farmer-to-farmer dissemination in Embu District, Kenya, a project was initiated to introduce fodder shrubs to farmers across seven districts. Over a two-year period, a dissemination facilitator working through field-based partners assisted 150 farmer groups […]

Journal article

Facilitating the wider use of agroforestry for development in southern Africa

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Southern Africa is experiencing severe degradation of the natural resource base caused by population growth and poverty. Agroforestry technologies that are now available have great potential to improve the livelihoods of many households. The paper describes some of the outcomes of technology development and how this has evolved into a more client-driven process. Regional development […]

Journal article

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

Journal article

Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

Journal article

Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […]

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Combining worker and user interests in the health sector: trade unions and NGOs

01/02/2004

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the relationship between workers in the health sector and users of health services as seen through two case studies of trade unions and NGOs working together, one in Malaysia and the other in South Africa. Despite a history of tensions between these two types of organisation, when they work together effectively the […]