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Introduction 1 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and street children, 1966–69: trying hard to keep a welfare institution going 2 Maun, Botswana, 1970–72: making technical education pay for itself 3 South Sudan, 1973–75: reconstructing the country in its one short period of peace 4 LSE and Patchwork Community, 1970–76: keeping in touch with the UK 5 Dominica, West Indies, 1976–78: demanding assistance from the State or the joys of self-help 6 South Pacific, 1979–80: appropriate technology, ideologues and small gains 7 Java, Indonesia, 1979–84: more AT ideologues and people’s technology 8 The far east of Indonesia, 1979–84: Oxfam, famine in East Timor and the amazing growth of Leucaena leucocephala in NTT 9 Positive deviance, 1980–81 and 1984–85: nutrition in Indonesia and rice/fish farming in north-east Thailand 10 Bangladesh, 1989–95: NGOs, CSOs, dependence on aid and independence from aid 11 Zambia, 1995–99: moving into advocacy from service delivery 12 CSOs everywhere, 1990 to the present: trying fundraising and resource mobilisation, not donor dependence 13 Indonesia, 1999–2004: never again, neither Suharto nor his corruption 14 East Timor, 2002–04: moving from relief and human rights to development and civil rights 15 Tajikistan, 2005–10: persuading ex-apparatchiks that citizens can do good without the State 16 Different countries in Africa, 2005–10: building integrity and CSO standards as an alternative to fighting corruption 17 Nepal, 2010–13: the birth of social accountability, digging down into corruption and half-hearted efforts to control it 18 Myanmar, 2015–16: watching a country become aid-dependent and doing nothing about corruption 19 East Africa, 2018–19: social accountability neutered by corruption 20 Reflections: bringing it all together Index