Civil Society and the Aid Industry (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rooy, Alison Van

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Produktbeschreibung

Northern governments and NGOs are increasingly convinced that civil society will enable people in developing countries to escape the poverty trap. Civil Society and the Aid Industry, the product of extensive research by the prestigious North-South Institute in Canada, makes a critical appraisal of this new emphasis in the aid industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000082920
• Artikelnr.: 59221508

Autorenporträt

Alison Van Rooy, Senior Researcher, The North-South Institute. Van Rooy's recent work on civil society, official development assistance (ODA), and the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) includes numerous articles, policy papers, speeches and presentations in addition to A Partial Promise? Canadian Support to Social Development in the South (NSI, 1995) and The Altruistic Lobbyists: The Influence o f Non-Governmental Organizations on Development Policy in Canada and Britain (DPhil, 1994). Her Rhodes scholarship was supplemented by a research fellowship at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade where she wrote on improved practices for consultation with civil society organizations. She was a Canada World Youth participant to Sri Lanka, and has been involved as a development educator for young people.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
About the Research Team
The Editor
The Authors
The Advisors
Acronyms
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
Introduction: All Roads Lead to Rome
Alison Van Rooy
Why Bother About Civil Society?
Origins
1. Civil Society as Idea: An Analytical Hatstand?
Alison Van Rooy
What is Civil Society?
Keeping Analysis Separate from Hope
2. Out of the Ivory Tower: Civil Society and the Aid System
Alison Van Rooy and Mark Robinson
What is Civil Society Supposed to Do?
What is the Aid System Doing?
What Next?
3. Hungary: Civil Society in the Post-Socialist World
Ferenc Miszlivetz and Katalin Ertsey
The Metamorphosis of Civil Society
Mapping Donor Interventions:
Do they Matter in the Big Picture?
4. Sri Lanka: Civil Society, the Nation and the State-building Challenge
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Mapping Civil Society
Mapping Donors
Civil Society and the Aid Industry
Conclusion
5. Kenya: The State, Donors and the Politics of Democratization
Wachira Maina
Civil Society in Africa
Civil Society and the State in Kenya Today
Donor Support for Civil Society
Reconstructing the State, Donor and Civil Society Relationships
6. Peru: Civil Society and the Autocratic Challenge
Pepi Patron
Mapping Civil Society in Peru
Mapping Northern Donor Intervention
Ideas About Power Relationships
7. The Art of Strengthening Civil Society
Alison Van Rooy
What We Found
Theory
The Aid Industry
'Strengthening' Civil Society
The Impact on Donors
Bibliography
Index