David Lewis, Nazneen Kanji, Nuno S. Themudo

Non-Governmental Organizations and Development (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and development combining a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429785214
• Artikelnr.: 60587217

Autorenporträt

David Lewis teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He specializes in development issues in South Asia, with a particular focus on Bangladesh. An anthropologist by background, he is the author of Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development (Routledge, 2014).

Nazneen Kanji is an independent adviser on development issues. She was formerly Director of the Quality of Life Research Unit at the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), and Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). She has specialized in gender, livelihoods and social policy, with extensive policy research, consultancy and field experience in Africa and Asia, including work as a cooperante in Mozambique during the 1980s.

Nuno S. Themudo is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching interests include NGOs, public and non-profit management and international development.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: what are non-governmental organizations? 2. Understanding
development NGOs in historical context 3. NGOs and development theory 4.
NGOs and development: from alternative to mainstream? 5. NGO roles in
contemporary development practice 6. NGOs and civil society 7. NGOs and
globalization 8. NGOs and the aid system 9. NGOs and international
humanitarian action 10. Development NGOs in perspective