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.

Organizing for Democracy
Organizing for Democracy

Author: G. Sidney Silliman

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1998-05-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780824820435

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The number, variety, and political prominence of non-governmental organization in the Philippines present a unique opportunity to study citizen activism. Nearly 60,000 in number by some estimates, grassroots and support organizations promote the interests of farmers, the urban poor, women, and indigenous peoples. They provide an avenue for political participation and a mechanism, unequaled elsewhere in Southeast Asia, for redressing the inequities of society. Organizing for Democracy brings together the most recent research on these organizations and their programs in the first book addressing the political significance of NGOs in the Philippines.

The State and NGOs
The State and NGOs

Author: Shinichi Shigetomi

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9812301526

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This volume examines the state-NGO relationships in fifteen Asian countries.

Strong NGOs and Weak States
Strong NGOs and Weak States

Author: Milli Lake

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1108419372

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Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Activism, NGOs and the State
Activism, NGOs and the State

Author: Melissa Schnyder

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1783484217

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Examines how cross-national differences in policies affecting migrants and refugees impact forms of cooperation among NGOs as they establish transnational social movement networks.

Theorizing NGOs
Theorizing NGOs

Author: Victoria Bernal

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0822377195

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Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal suggest that we can understand the proliferation of NGOs through a focus on the NGO as a unified form despite the enormous variation and diversity contained within that form. Theorizing NGOs brings together cutting-edge feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Contributors locate NGOs within local and transnational configurations of power, interrogate the relationships of nongovernmental organizations to states and to privatization, and map the complex, ambiguous, and ultimately unstable synergies between feminisms and NGOs. While some of the contributors draw on personal experience with NGOs, others employ regional or national perspectives. Spanning a broad range of issues with which NGOs are engaged, from microcredit and domestic violence to democratization, this groundbreaking collection shows that NGOs are, themselves, fields of gendered struggles over power, resources, and status. Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Victoria Bernal, LeeRay M. Costa, Inderpal Grewal, Laura Grünberg, Elissa Helms, Julie Hemment, Saida Hodžic, Lamia Karim, Sabine Lang, Lauren Leve, Kathleen O'Reilly, Aradhana Sharma

State & NGOs
State & NGOs

Author: Shinichi Shigetomi

Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 9814517380

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There is already much literature on the significance of NGOs in the development process. However, there has been little discussion on why the NGOs take on different forms in different countries. This volume examines the state-NGO relationships in fifteen countries. It is not, however, a pot-pourri of country reports. All the contributors use the same analytical framework and focus on the key concept of "e;economic and political space"e; for NGOs. Readers will find that the analysis of the various NGO forms is well synthesized in this volume.

Development Hegemony
Development Hegemony

Author: Sangeeta Kamat

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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This book deals with the current debates in South Aisa on the role of the state and the non-government organizations in the development process and in fostering democratic principles. It is a critique of the grassroots development in India over the past few decades.

Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America
Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America

Author: Anthony Bebbington

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1000944050

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This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America. Beginning with a broad review of institutional activity at the grassroots, the authors set the case material within the context of NGO relations with the State and their contribution to democratisation and the consolidation of rural civil society. Specific questions are raised: how good/bad are NGOs at promoting technological innovation and addressing constraints to change in present agriculture?; how effective are NGOs at strengthening grassroots organizations? and how do/will donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the State? This title is part of a series on Non-Governmental Organizations co-ordinated by the Overseas Development Institute. To complete this comprehensive review and critique there are two other regional case study volumes on Asia and Africa and an overview volume, Reluctant Partners?