NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalising World / Edition 1

by Barbara Rugendyke

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415395304
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2007
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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?