Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs / Edition 1

by Marc Lindenberg, Coralie Bryant

Overview

* An innovative look at changing roles of NGOs in global politics
* Based on extensive fieldwork and discussions with NGO presidents and CEOs

This is an invaluable resource to anyone studying general nonprofit management issues, as well as those studying the specific challenges of relief and development organizations. Boasting a unique insiders’ perspective, it is the first book-length study of the largest Northern-based international relief and development NGOs.

The authors address the challenges of accountability, evaluation, and organizational learning for NGOs and the growing significance of complex emergencies, peacebuilding, and advocacy work. They evaluate how infrastructures are being organized on a worldwide basis and responding to the transformative changes globalization demands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565491359
Publisher:	Kumarian Press, Inc.
Publication date:	09/28/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Coralie Bryant Professor and Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, is also assisting L'Institut des etudes politques, (Sciences-Po) in Paris with the development of their Atelier in Development. Both Coralie and Christina worked with Marc Lindenberg on a previous Kumarian book, Going Global: Transforming International Relief and Development NGOs. Prior to Columbia University, she was a senior staff member of the World Bank, where, among other work, in 1990-1991 she was one of the central authors and negotiators for the World Bank's first policy paper on governance.

Marc Lindenberg was dean of the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and an influential scholar and practitioner in humanitarian relief and international development.

Table of Contents

1) Responding to Globalization; 2) Managing Transformation: Tough Choices, Far-reaching Consequences; 3) NGOs, Complex Emergencies, and Active Humanitarianism; 4) Building Positive Peace: Reducing Poverty and Social Exclusion; 5) Emerging Global Organizational Structures; 6) The Promise of New Inter-Organizational and Inter-Sectoral Partnerships; 7) The Evolving Role of Advocacy; 8) Accountability, Evaluation and Organizational Learning

What People are Saying About This

John Clark

An essential tool for leaders and staff of NGOs in these times of rapid change, and a great resource for all who are interested in NGOs, be they academics, donors or supporters.--John Clark, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics

Editorial Reviews

"Lindenberg and Bryant convincingly argue that the leading NGOs in international relief and development are at the cusp of pivotal opportunities. World changes and the forces of globalization are re-shaping the landscape NGOs inhabit: if they seize these challenges creatively they stand to become yet more influential and more valuable to the world’s poor; if they miss the chance they risk becoming outdated. Going Global provides a timely route-map to this frontier. It is an essential tool for leaders and staff of NGOs in these times of rapid change, and a great resource for all who are interested in NGOs, be they academics, donors or supporters."

"Explores in an informed and innovative manner the changing, emerging roles of major international NGOs in global politics."

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