The Learning NGO
The Learning NGO

Author: Bruce Britton

Publisher:

Published: 1998-01

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 9781897748367

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The concept of the learning organization has spawned a number of books within the corporate sector. The ideas underpinning this concept have a generic appeal and as a result, organizational learning is the subject of increasing interest in the NGO sector and the not-for-profit world more widely. This paper sets out to examine the relevance of the learning organization concept for NGOs and concludes that the ideas have significant relevance for the sector. The paper aims to provide NGO staff with a conceptual framework for the subject - its purpose is not simply to describe the characteristics of a learning organization but to encourage NGOs to examine their organizations in the light of these characteristics. For this reason the paper includes a diagnostic tool (the learning NGO questionnaire) which NGOs can use to assess their current capacity for organizational learning. The paper seeks to stimulate ideas about how NGOs can rise to the challenge of learning from, adapting and continually improving the quality of what they do, if they are to remain relevant as agents of social change in the 21st century.

NGOs and Organizational Change
NGOs and Organizational Change

Author: Alnoor Ebrahim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-05-12

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780521671576

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Ebrahim analyses the organizational evolution of NGOs combining case studies with extensive review of literature.

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs
Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs

Author: Tiina Kontinen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1351611682

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Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience. Despite the overwhelming discourses of NGOs as learning organisations, little is known about the phenomenon of learning within NGOs. As constantly changing buzzwords and institutional approaches abound and old ideas and concepts are "re-discovered", development NGOs are often accused of trying to reinvent the wheel as they struggle to escape from the challenges of development amnesia. Based on detailed empirical data on the everyday practices and accounts of development practitioners, this book moves between the boundaries of organisational institutionalism, learning theories, management and ethnographies of NGOs practices to investigate the many faces of organisational learning in an attempt to counteract development amnesia. Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs will be an essential guide for students, scholars and development practitioners with an interest in development management and organisational theory.

The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change

Author: Barefoot Collective (South Africa)

Publisher: The Barefoot Collective

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0620432403

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"This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society. It has been developed by the Barefoot Collective. The guide, with its supporting website, includes tried and tested concepts, approaches, stories and activities. It's purpose is to help stimulate and enrich the practice of anyone supporting organisations and social movements in their challenges of working, learning, growing and changing to meet the needs of our complex world. Although it is aimed at leaders and facilitators of civil society organisations, we hope it will be useful to anyone interested in fostering healthy human organisation in any sphere of life"--Barefoot Collective website.

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs
Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs

Author: Tiina Kontinen

Publisher: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9781138089808

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Categorising learning in development : towards organisational institutionalism -- Learning as a search for a shared meaning for empowerment -- Learning as change in organisational epistemology -- Unlearning, forgetting and ignorance -- Learning as legitimation and synchronisation

The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations
The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

Author: David Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-12-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1134197578

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The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review of existing literature from a variety of disciplines (including management, development studies, and social policy) and provides wide-ranging examples from the author’s own practical and research experience. New to this edition: twelve new detailed case studies of NGO management issues and challenges new discussion points, lessons learned and questions for debate to guide the reader through each chapter definitions of key terms highlighted key ideas to illustrate each chapter. Revealing the distinctive organizational challenges faced by NGOs this second edition provides a fully updated and revised text that will prove invaluable to all those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary sector or development studies. Visit the Companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/978-0-415-37093-6.

Critical Reflections on Development
Critical Reflections on Development

Author: D. Kingsbury

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0230389058

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Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development.

Allies or Adversaries
Allies or Adversaries

Author: Jennifer N. Brass

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1316721051

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Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of Kenya. She examines several case studies of NGOs within Africa in order to demonstrate how the boundary between purely state and non-state actors blurs, resulting in a very slow turn toward more accountable and democratic public service administration. Ideal for scholars, international development practitioners, and students interested in global or international affairs, this detailed analysis provides rich data about NGO-government and citizen-state interactions in an accessible and original manner.

Non-Governmental Development Organizations and the Poverty Reduction Agenda
Non-Governmental Development Organizations and the Poverty Reduction Agenda

Author: Jonathan J. Makuwira

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1317934520

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The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world. This book offers a highly stimulating and concise summary of the NGDO sector by examining their history and metamorphosis; their influence on the social, political and economic landscapes of the ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ governments and societies. The author analyses competing theoretical and conceptual debates not only regarding their contribution to the global social political dynamism but also on the sector’s changing external influence as they try and mitigate poverty in marginalized communities. This book presents NGDOs as multidimensional actors propelled by the desire to make a lasting change but constrained by market-oriented approaches to development and other factors both internal and external to their environment. While a lot of attention has been given to understanding international NGDOs like World Vision International, Oxfam, Care International and Plan International, this book offers a critical analysis of grassroots organizations – those NGDOs founded and established by locals and operate at the deepest end of the development contexts. This work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of areas including Development Studies, International Organizations and Globalization.