NGOs, States and Donors : Too Close for Comfort?

In the last decade the use of non-governmental agencies (NGOs) to promote development and reduce poverty and hunger has become a major feature of development policy. This book provides the most detailed study available of the ways in which NGO-State-Donor relationships have changed the role that NGOs play in development.

List of Tables - List of Figures - List of Abbreviations - Foreword - Bibliographic Details of Contributors - PART 1: NGOs, STATES AND DONORS: AN OVERVIEW AND KEY ISSUES - NGOs, States and Donors: An Overview; D.Hulme & M.Edwards - Donors, Democratization and Civil Society: Relating Theory to Practice; H.Blair - The State, Popular Participation and the Voluntary Sector; J.Clark - Privatising the Voluntary Sector: NGOs as Public Service Contractors; M.Robinson - States Without Citizens: The Problem of the Franchise State; G.Wood - Finding Common Ground in Asia-Pacific Development; H.Morales & I.Serrano - PART 2: NGO-DONOR RELATIONSHIPS: WHEN YOUR HAND IS IN ANOTHER PERSON''S POCKET...? - Heavy Hands, Hidden Hands, Holding Hands? Donors, Intermediary NGOs and Civil Society Organisations; A.Bebbington & R.Riddell - Appeasing the Gods of Sustainability: The Future of International NGOs in Microfinance; T.Dichter - World Vision International and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?; S.Commins - In Unequal Dialogue with Donors: The Experience of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement; J.Perera - Elephant Loose in the Jungle: The World Bank and NGOs in Sri Lanka; R.Hodson - PART 3: NGO-STATE RELATIONSHIPS: RELUCTANT PARTNERS REVISITED? - The Associative Phenomenon in the Arab World: Engine of Democratization or Witness to the Crisis?; M.Marzouk - NGO-State Relations in Post-Mao China; J.Howell - The State-NGO Relationship: Rights, Interests and Accountability; R.Wanigaratne - NGOs and Development in Brazil: Roles and Responsibilities in a ''New World Order''; M.Bosch - Mice Amongst the Tigers: Adding Value in NGO-Government Relations in South East Asia; R.Mawer - PART 4: NGOs, THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED: RETURNING TO THE ROOTS? - Between Cooption and Irrelevance? Latin American NGOs in the 1990s; J.Pearce - Conclusion; D.Hulme & M.Edwards - Bibliography