Barbara Rugendyke (ed.)

NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalising World

Herausgeber: Rugendyke, Barbara

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the recent historical shift in the policies and practises of 'development' NGOS towards increased advocacy activity as a means of achieving poverty alleviation and increased global equity and, through case studies, illustrates the impacts of the advocacy activites of a range of international NGOs at different geographical scales.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415395311
• ISBN-10: 0415395313
• Artikelnr.: 23520846

Autorenporträt

Barbara Rugendyke is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Lilliputians or Leviathans?: NGOs as Advocates Part 1: Contesting the
Global Futures - From Charity to Challenge 2. Charity to Advocacy: Changing
Agendas of Australian NGO's 3. Speaking Out: Australian NGO's as Advocates
Part 2: Towards Global Equality?: Internationalisation, Oxfam and the World
Bank 4. Global Action: International NGO's and Advocacy 5. Oxfam, the World
Bank and Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Part 3: A Hesitant Courtship:
Engaging the Corporate Sector 6. Confrontation, Cooperation and
Co-Optation: NGO Advocacy and Corporations 7. Risks and Rewards: NGOs
Engaging the Corporate Sector Part 4: Dam(n)ing the Mekong?: Banks, States,
NGOs and the Poor 8. Advocacy, Civil Society and the State in the Mekong
Region 9. Asian Development Bank: NGO Encounters and the Theun-Hinboun Dam,
Laos 10. Making Poverty History?