Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The making of NGOs: the relevance of Foucault and Bourdieu
- 2 The NGOs and their global networks
- 3 NGO behavior and development discourse
- 4 Interdependence and power: tensions over money and reputation
- 5 Information struggles: the role of information in the reproduction of NGO-funder relationships
- 6 Learning in NGOs
- 7 Challenges ahead: NGO-funder relations in a global future
- Notes
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The making of NGOs: the relevance of Foucault and Bourdieu
- 2 The NGOs and their global networks
- 3 NGO behavior and development discourse
- 4 Interdependence and power: tensions over money and reputation
- 5 Information struggles: the role of information in the reproduction of NGO-funder relationships
- 6 Learning in NGOs
- 7 Challenges ahead: NGO-funder relations in a global future
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
This book is about change in non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It explores how NGOs change over time and examines the forces, both local and global, that shape them. Following the end of the Cold War, there has been an increase in attention among the international aid community to civil society organizations and institutions, and especially to development-oriented NGOs. This growth in attention and funding to NGOs appears to have been motivated by a number of factors. On one hand, it has been driven by evidence of state failure in service provision and an attendant neo-liberal economic climate of state retrenchment. On the other hand, it has been inspired by a belief that NGOs are not only more efficient service providers than public agencies but that they are also more democratic and effective in reaching the poor, despite a dearth of supportive empirical evidence. As development aid is increasingly channeled through NGOs rather than through governments, there is mounting pressure on NGOs to expand and scale-up their work, sometimes to the extent of replacing state services.
The focus of this book is on relationships between NGOs and their international networks of funders. Understanding these broader linkages is crucial to making sense of how and why NGOs change. In exploring the impacts of international funding on NGOs, this book devotes special attention to organizational reporting and learning systems.
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- Chapter
- Information
- NGOs and Organizational ChangeDiscourse, Reporting, and Learning, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003