Debating Development: Ngos And the Future (Development in Practice Readers Series) - Softcover

Eade, Deborah; Ligteringen, Ernst

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ISBN 10: 0855984449 ISBN 13: 9780855984441

Verlag: Oxfam GB, 2001

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Non-government organisations working in the humanitarian and development sectors won official approval in the 1980's and 1990's but there are signs now that they are losing favour. 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 to demonstrate their legitimacy as representative voices of civil society. NGOs themselves are taking a hard look at their mandates, their core values and their role on a changing international stage. Contributors to this volume reflect on what kind of development will eradicate poverty and what types of agency are best suited to the task. Leading representatives of NGOs, development think-tanks and civil-society organisations, as well as scholars and activists, ask: What model of international co-operation can deliver social and economic justice? And what does this mean for NGOs in the future?

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Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.

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Debating Development

NGOs and the Future

By Deborah Eade, Ernst Ligteringen

Oxfam Publishing

Copyright © 2001 Oxfam GB
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ISBN: 978-0-85598-444-1

Contents

Development in Practice, Oxfam International, and Debating Development, 6, 
Contributors, 7, 
NGOs and the future: taking stock, shaping debates, changing practice Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen, 11, 
Good news! You may be out of a job: reflections on the past and future 50 years for Northern NGOs Alison Van Rooy, 19, 
Riding high or nosediving: development NGOs in the new millennium Rajesh Tandon, 44, 
International NGOs and the challenge of modernity Brian K. Murphy, 60, 
Globalisation, civil society, and the multilateral system José Antonio Alonso, 86, 
The World Bank, neo-liberalism, and power: discourse analysis and implications for campaigners Andy Storey, 104, 
Dissonance or dialogue: changing relations with the corporate sector Judy Henderson, 118, 
NGOs as development partners to the corporates: child football-stitchers in Pakistan David Husselbee, 127, 
NGOs: fragmented dreams Jaime Joseph A., 145, 
Indicators of identity: NGOs and the strategic imperative of assessing core values John Hailey, 163, 
Development agencies: global or solo players? Sylvia Borren, 171, 
Coming to grips with organisational values Vijay Padaki, 189, 
We NGOs: a controversial way of being and acting Candido Grzybowski, 209, 
Northern NGO advocacy: perceptions, reality, and the challenge Ian Anderson, 222, 
Campaigning: a fashion or the best way to change the global agenda? Gerd Leipold, 233, 
The international anti-debt campaign: a Southern activist view for activists in 'the North' ... and 'the South' Dot Keet, 243, 
Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy Paul Nelson, 268, 
Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development: the mixing of a rights-based solution Hugo Slim, 287, 
Aid: a mixed blessing Mary B. Anderson, 292, 
The Local Capacities for Peace Project: the Sudan experience Abikök Riak, 300, 
NGOs, disasters, and advocacy: caught between the Prophet and the Shepherd Boy Alan Whaites, 306, 
Capacity building: shifting the paradigms of practice Allan Kaplan, 322, 
Gendering the millennium: globalising women Haleh Afshar, 336, 
Gender in development: a long haul – but we're getting there! Josefina Stubbs, 348, 
Impact assessment: seeing the wood and the trees Chris Roche, 359, 
Does Matson matter? Assessing the impact of a UK neighbourhood project Stan Thekaekara, 377, 
Annotated bibliography, 402, 
Addresses of publishers and other organisations, 419, 

CHAPTER 1

NGOs and the future: taking stock, shaping debates, changing practice

Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen

We are all products of our times. Today's world is marked by rapid and significant changes that affect us all as individuals and as societies, as working, thinking, and living beings who must continue to share our planet and its finite resources. Economic growth, which brought unprecedented levels of well-being and prosperity to many millions of people in the latter part of the twentieth century, has nevertheless left – and continues to leave – many thousands of millions of fellow human beings living in poverty, hunger, fear, and oppression. The faith that such growth would somehow trickle down to the poor and dispossessed and lift them out of their misery has proved tragically unfounded. The hope that ordinary people could, by invoking their right to a share in the full benefits of development, shake off the legacies of inequality and injustice has been a vital source of inspiration to the NGO movement worldwide. Victories have been won, oppressive régimes have been overcome, the universality of human rights is a concept that is gaining ground as never before. Yet, as the gulf between rich and poor widens year by year, it becomes harder to maintain the optimism of earlier times. Development has not delivered its promise. Perhaps it never could have done. But the very pace and scale of the changes before us now make it essential to reorient our missions as international development NGOs. The turn of the century is as good a moment as any to take stock. The turn of the millennium is an even better one.

This Reader, the tenth title in the series, is in turn based on the tenth-anniversary issue (Volume 10:3&4) of the journal, Development in Practice. In collaboration with Oxfam International, a number of development practitioners and commentators from many different backgrounds were invited to contribute their individual perspectives on core issues concerning the relevance and effectiveness of international development NGOs. In a modest way, this collection is an expression of our belief that NGOs can and indeed must become learning organisations, and that the best place to start is by standing back from the daily bustle and reflecting on some of the larger questions behind our very raison d'être in a changing international context.

In bringing together these contributions, we did not seek to impose our own opinions or simply to reflect the views of our respective institutions. Nor was it our intention to encourage self-absorbed debates on what constitutes a development NGO, or to suggest that the issues facing Northern (international) NGOs are essentially different in kind from those faced by NGOs in the South – and much less to present Northern and Southern NGOs as homogeneous blocs. Our guiding principle was that of inviting open discussion on the following questions: what forms do social and economic injustice take in today's world? What forms will they take in the future? And how relevant are today's development NGOs to the task of tackling the root causes of injustice? To put it another way: if NGOs exist not merely to administer charity, but also to shape the ways in which the international community understands and responds to poverty and injustice, how do they (we) need to change their (our) own ways of working?

On the relevance of NGOs

Opening this Reader,Alison Van Rooy (North–South Institute, Canada) demonstrates that, as products of the latter half of the twentieth century, most contemporary development NGOs are deeply rooted in the international aid industry, as development has evolved into what she terms as 'an occupational category'. The NGO movement has achieved an enormous amount, and the increasing capacity of Southern NGOs should also be celebrated as a success. But times are changing, and international NGOs (INGOs) in particular should question whether they are still relevant in this new reality. Van Rooy concludes that many of the ways of working that have been institutionalised by INGOs are now obsolete, and that new capacities and organisational forms – North and South – are urgently needed.

The transition from the international relations of the Cold War period to today's processes of increasing globalisation and economic integration demands different skills and different roles from NGOs, especially those working in the international arena. An ability to analyse and interpret these changes is essential. Offering two Latin American perspectives, both Jaime Joseph (Centro Alternativa, Peru) and Cândido Grzybowski (IBASE, Brazil) relate the importance of these faculties to the phenomenon of neo-liberal globalisation;...

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• Verlag: Oxfam GB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0855984449
• ISBN 13: 9780855984441
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424
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