About this book
The task environment of NGOs is changing rapidly and significantly, making new demands on their management and leadership. This volume discusses the complexities involved. It illustrates how NGOs can maintain performance and remain agile amidst increasing uncertainties. These factors include the position of NGOs in civil society, their involvement in governance and coping with the effects of the securitisation of international aid.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: NGOs IN A WORLD OF UNCERTAINTIES
Contents
Contributor List
1. Have NGOs 'Made a Difference?' From Manchester to Birmingham with an Elephant in the Room
2. NGOs and Development Alternatives - Revisited
3. The Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society
4. Seeing Like a Citizen: Re-claiming Citizenship in a Neoliberal World
5. Civic Driven Change: A Concise Guide to the Basics
6. Civic Driven Change and Developmental Democracy
7. Civil Society and the Legitimation of Global Governance
8. Civil Society Legitimacy and Accountability: Issues and Challenges
9. Listen First: a Pilot System for Managing Downward Accountability in NGOs
10. Governing for Accountability: Principles in Practice
11. Strategic Issues Facing NGOs into the Foreseeable Future
12. Strategic Planning: The Cultivation of Organizational Beauty
13. The Phases of Organization Development
14. The Change Challenge: Achieving Transformational Organizational Change in International NGOs
15. Rights-based Development Approaches: Combining Politics, Creativity and Organisation
16. Participation
17. Trust, Accountability, and Face-to-face Interaction in North - South NGO Relations
18. Briefing Paper: Policy Engagement for Poverty Reduction - How Civil Society Can be More Effective
19. Is there Life after Gender Mainstreaming?
20. Managing NGOs with Spirit
21. Civil Society Networks: Of Ants and Elephants
22. South African NGOs and the Public Sphere: Between Popular Movements and Partnerships for Development
23. Bridging Gaps: Collaboration Between Research and Operational Organizations
24. NGOs and Communication: Divorce over the Toothpaste
25. Development Effectiveness: Towards New Understandings
26. Measurement in Developmental Practice: From the Mundane to the Transformational
27. Accountability and Learning: Exploding the Myth of Incompatibility Between Accountability and Learning
28. Knowledge Management Organisational Learning: an International Development Perspective
29. Options, Strategies and Trade-offs in Resource Mobilisation
30. Social Entrepreneurship: A Convergence of NGOs and the Market Economy?
31. "Trees Die From the Top": International Perspectives on NGO Leadership Development
32. Developing Leaders? Developing Countries?
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