Autor: Deborah Eade

Non-government organisations working in the humanitarian and development sectors won official approval in the 1980’s and 1990’s but there are signs now that they are losing favour. The NGO sector sta …

Most major development NGOs dedicate significant resources to advocacy. Many also work to inform and shape public opinion, whether through advertising or fundraising or through education programmes. …

Approaches to sustainable development in cities of the South have focused too exclusively on narrow technical aspects of environmental protection, with no benefit to most residents in cities and peri …

Most development policies and interventions are based on an assumption that ‘modernisation’ in the Western sense is the ultimate goal of human societies. Culture is therefore regarded either as an im …

In this collection Alex de Waal focuses on famine as a tool for violating human rights, while Francisco Alvarez Solis and Pauline Martin, writing about El Salvador, show how civilian organisations mo …

Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development which are people-centred, participatory, empowering and gender-fair. This volume of essays explores some of the middle ground between such values- …

Experienced practitioners and academics provide an insightful look into the limitations of NGOs in claiming to represent and assist ‘civil society’. Changes in approaches to development are situated …

Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in pover …

Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in pover …