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Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Keywords: ngos, aids, hiv
Published: 2000
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 817141527X
ISBN-13: 9788171415274
Authors:Sarah E. Mendelson, John K. Gle,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: ngos, limits, power
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2002-10-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0231124910
ISBN-13: 9780231124911
Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These NGOs are working on such diverse tasks as helping to establish competitive political parties, elections, and independent media, as well as trying to reduce ethnic conflict. This important book is among the few efforts to assess the impact of these international efforts to build democratic institutions. The case studies presented here provide a portrait of the mechanisms by which idea
Author: et al Sarah Ben Nefissa
Publisher: American University in Cairo Pre
Keywords: world, arab, governance, ngos
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-05-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 9774249046
ISBN-13: 9789774249044
Most non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the Arab world have traditionally been active in the areas of social work and charity, often within a religious or communal framework. But recently, many of these organizations have become forums for conflicts between different political trends, while others tackle political problems such as human rights or democratic issues. Facing the rejuvenated NGO scene in the Arab world, public authorities remain torn between support for the concerns of civil society and the traditional mode of management, which does not delegate, consult, or decentralize. Ca
Author: Barb Rugendyke
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: world, globalising, development, advocates, ngos
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2007-12-28
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415395305
ISBN-13: 9780415395304
To maximise their impact, NGOs have globalised their operations and formed new strategic alliances to maximise the effectiveness of their advocacy. Historically, as a means of improving the life of people in disadvantaged communities, northern development NGOs primarily acted at the local scale in developing nations. In the last decade, these NGOs have increasingly given resources to advocacy campaigns directed at global and regional actors, including multilateral banks, governments and corporations. To date, there has been little basis for gauging the extent to which NGOs’ advocacy wor
Authors:Shamima Ahmed, David Potter,
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: politics, international, ngos
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-11
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1565492307
ISBN-13: 9781565492301
Non-governmental organizations have gained a great deal of popularity in recent years. The awarding of the Nobel Prize to The International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1977 and to Medicins Sans Frontieres in 1999 has highlighted the emergence of these organizations as "new" forces in international politics. Yet, there is no work to date that has provided an overview of the varieties of interaction between NGOs and states, international organizations and in international politics. This is especially true of books aimed at undergraduates. NGOs in International Politics surveys
Author: Dorothea Hilhorst
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: diversity, development, discourses, ngos, world, real
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-07-18
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1842771655
ISBN-13: 9781842771655
Dorothea Hilhorst provides for the first time an empirically rooted and theoretically innovative understanding of the actual internal workings, organizational practices, and discursive repertoires of NGOs. Her evidence and insights lead to a different picture of NGOs from the one prevailing in the literature. Her model of NGOs--not as clear-cut organizations, but often with several different faces, fragmented, and consisting of social networks whose organizing practices remain in flux--is helpful to understanding not just these bodies, but official development agencies too.Dorothea Hilhorst pr
Author: Eric James
Publisher: Practical Action
Keywords: guide, ngos, operational, relief, humanitarian, managing
Number of Pages: 446
Published: 2008-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1853396699
ISBN-13: 9781853396694
Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves working in competitive situations or at cross purposes with other agencies.Managing Humanitarian Relief is aimed at relief workers charged with putting together a program of action to help people in extreme crisis. It provides humanitarian relief managers with a single comprehensive reference for all the management issues they are likely to encounter in the field.The book is organized in two parts. First, it provides an outline of different relief programming sectors: food and
