"This book brings together key readings in the NGO managment literature, focusing on NGDO's working on issues of poverty and injustice in developing countries and on a global scale. The contributions which are drawn from a wide variety of sources ranging from books and journal articles to agency pub
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lications." (D + C 5/2002)
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"Tools for Development" aims to help you deliver successful development activities and interventions by giving you access to the skills and techniques you will need to do so. The demand for it has come from DFID staff both in the UK and overseas who recognise that development initiatives inside and
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outside DFID need to be designed and managed using people-driven and performancebased management methods. Over the past decade, DFID has worked with others to develop new methodologies and refine earlier ones to support such approaches; the range of techniques from which to choose is still expanding." (Introduction, page 1.1)
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"Development is not a question of project-based interventions, or of quantifiable inputs and outputs, but a complex process of negotiation over meetings, values, and social goals within the sphere of public action. This collection of papers, from the journal 'Development in Practice', draws on The O
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pen University's ground-breaking work in the field of development management. It includes in-depth accounts by academics and development managers that range from civil society organizations in Brazil to NGO workers in Egypt, government departments in Tanzania and Poland, donor agencies in Bangladesh, and black feminist activities in the UK." (Catalogue Intermediate Technology Publications 2000)
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"For Fowler, sustainability is 'agility with insight', as simple as that. The book oozes with case studies, mainly of experienced NGOs, explaining how they overcame multifarious problems and settled down into the path of success. With some excellent discussion of questions like 'should we commercial
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ise?' and 'should we have private sector as partners?', it is less of a guide than a collection of insights." (Spore 91, February 2001)
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