Indi Ruwangi Akurugoda

NGO Politics in Sri Lanka

Local Government and Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development. Based on research in the southern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka, this project analyses the views of national, provincial and local level political representatives, administrative officials, and NGO officials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-58585-7
• 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9783319585857
• ISBN-10: 3319585851
• Artikelnr.: 48037937

Autorenporträt

Indi Ruwangi Akurugoda is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Policy, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. She focuses on non-governmental politics, decentralization, local government, and development.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. NGOs and their potential in post-colonial societies.- 3. NGOs in Sri Lanka.- 4. Local development, people's participation and local politics.- 5. Problems in local government and possible solutions: NGOs as a support of local government.- 6. NGO involvement at the local level: Centrally-led projects.- 7. NGOs as local development partners: Locally-led projects.- 8. Conclusion.