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- Shifting ground-implications of international cooperation for civil society organisations in Latin America, 2000-2007
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International and national dynamics in Latin America are reconfiguring the relationships between the main development actors. These dynamics are shifting the ground for civil society organisations and impacting on their ability to fulfil their role in fighting poverty and inequality and promoting democratisation. This paper reports on a study conducted in Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua and Peru in 2007 to explore how the international and national contexts are affecting the ability of civil society to influence public and aid policy (CARE International 2007).
http://www.eldis.org/go/what-s-new&id=34595&type=Document
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- Signs of hope amid Papua New Guinea's need
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This article looks at the debate between churches in Papua New Guinea on how to handle the AIDS epidemic. It also profiles several Papua New Guineans that have received help from various NGO and NZAID schemes, including a microfinance project, a farm, and a project to improve the awareness and safety of Port Moresby sex workers, and 'sensitise' police to HIV and human rights issues. (Julie Middleton, New Zealand Herald, 6 May 2006)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10381939
(Added: Thu May 18 2006 Modified: Thu Aug 24 2006 Hits: 337)
- Sins of the secular missionaries
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Aid and campaign groups, or NGOs, matter more and more in world affairs. But they are often far from being non-governmental, as they claim. And they are not always a force for good.
http://www.civilsoc.org/resource/sins.htm
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- Soul City Instutute for Health and Development Communication
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The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (SC IHDC) is a social change project which aims to impact on society at the individual, community and socio-political levels. SC IHDC is South Africa's premier edutainment project.
http://www.soulcity.org.za/about-us/institute-for-health-development/
(Added: Tue Feb 19 2008 Hits: 51)
- Structural Adjustment Participatory Review
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SAPRIN is a global network established to expand and legitimize the role of civil society in economic policymaking and to strengthen the organized challenge to structural adjustment programs by citizens around the globe. The network is working with a broad range of citizens' groups in various countries on four continents to organize public processes to assess the real impact of World Bank and IMF-supported economic-reform programs and to chart a new course for the future. SAPRIN and its local affiliates have engaged the World Bank and governments in eight countries -- Bangladesh, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Hungary, Mali, Uganda and Zimbabwe -- as part of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI). In Mexico and the Philippines, as well as in Canada, citizens' groups organized under SAPRIN are collaborating with parliamentarians and other institutions as part of the Citizens' Assessment of Structural Adjustment (CASA). In Argentina and the Central America region, SAPRIN is working with broad citizens' alliances to build alternatives to current economic policies.
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- The Access Initiative (TAI)
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The Access Initiative (TAI) is a global coalition of public interest groups collaborating to promote national-level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making.
http://www.accessinitiative.org/
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- The Forms and Nature of Civic Service: A Global Assessment
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This report presents findings from a global assessment of civic service programs. What is the geographic distribution of programs? What forms do these programs take? What are their goals and activities? Who serves? How long do they serve? What structures support the service experience? (McBride et al.,January 2003)
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd/Publications/2003/Global_Assessment_Report.pdf
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- The International Budget Project
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The International Budget Project assists civil society organizations around the world to improve budget policies and decision-making processes. It assists non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and researchers in their efforts both to analyze budget policies and to improve budget processes and institutions. The project is especially interested in assisting with applied research that is of use in ongoing policy debates and with research on the effects of budget policies on the poor. The overarching goal of the project is to make budget systems more responsive to the needs of society and, accordingly, to make these systems more transparent and accountable to the public. The project works primarily with researchers and NGOs in developing countries or new democracies.
http://www.internationalbudget.org
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- The International Budget Project
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The International Budget Project of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities assists non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and researchers in their efforts both to analyze budget policies and to improve budget processes and institutions. The project is especially interested in assisting with applied research that is of use in ongoing policy debates and with research on the effects of budget policies on the poor. The overarching goal of the project is to make budget systems more responsive to the needs of society and, accordingly, to make these systems more transparent and accountable to the public. The project works primarily with researchers and NGOs in developing countries or new democracies.
http://www.internationalbudget.org/
(Added: Thu Jun 03 2004 Modified: Mon Oct 31 2005 Hits: 210)
- The mission to feed Liberia (pdf)
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This article profiles Ambassador Wendell McIntosh, who founded the Foundation for African Development Aid (ADA) in 1990. His goal is to achieve food security for the country as a necessary part of the peace process. (Jarlawah Tonpo, New African, 2005)
http://www.africasia.co.uk/uploads/na_liberia_0306.pdf
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- The missionary position: NGOs and development in Africa (PDF)
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By Firoze Manji and Carl O'Coill (2002). In this paper we trace the evolution of the role of NGOs in Africa. We suggest that their role in 'development' represents a continuity of the work of their precursors, the missionaries and voluntary organisations that cooperated in Europe's colonization and control of Africa. Today their work contributes marginally to the relief of poverty, but significantly to undermining the struggle of African people to 3 emancipate themselves from economic, social and political oppression. NGOs could, and some do, play a role in supporting an emancipatory agenda in Africa, but that would involve them disengaging from their paternalistic role in development.
http://www.fahamu.org.uk/downloads/missionaryposition.pdf
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- The NGO Café
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Realizing the growing importance and voice of NGOs in development in general, the NGO Café was set up on the internet as a meeting place for NGOs to discuss, debate and disseminate information on their work, strategies and results. The basic objectives of the Café are to assist NGOs in enhancing and improving their programmes and activities; to effect a better understanding of NGOs in general; and to enable NGOs to network at local, regional and international levels.
http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/index.html
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- The Paris Agenda and its consequences for Civil Society in Kenya
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Final Report Commissioned by a group of Swedish Development Organisations with Frame-agreements with Sida. This report looks at the awareness of the international development paradigm among civil society in Kenya, which is limited. For a number of reasons that are not related to the changing international development agenda, Kenyan civil society is presently disorganised and split along political-ethnic lines There is a lack of leadership and civil society is not actively pursuing the possibilities that are available. (World Bank, May 2007)
http://www.diakonia.se/documents/public/NEWS/14MayFinal_Report_Paris_NGOs.pdf
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- The repression of the bleeding hearts
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In Australia, recent years have seen an unprecedented attack upon non-government organisations (NGOs), most particularly upon those organisations that disagree with the Federal Government's views and values. The attacks have come both from the Government itself and from close allies such as the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Questions have been raised about NGOs' representativeness, their accountability, their financing, their charitable status and their standing as policy advocates in a liberal democracy such as Australia. The vast store of knowledge of disadvantage and marginalisation held by NGOs such as the Red Cross, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Oxfam and the Australian Conservation Foundation is dismissed. Instead, they are seen as a group of professional stirrers who are not really interested in the welfare of those they claim to represent, but want only to feather their own nests, keeping their salaries and building their power bases. (Sarah Maddison and Clive Hamilton, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 January 2007)
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- The role of civil society organisations in promoting corporate citizenship
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The existence of civil society organisations stems from the exercise of individual human rights; notably, the freedom of association, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. One of the important roles of civil society organisations is to contribute to holding accountable the other two main components of society: the government and businesses (market). With today's globalised world, characterised by an increased power and influence of corporate companies (transnational corporations), the eroding capacity of individual nation states' governments to regulate the market, the challenge to civil society organisations in the exercise of this fundamental role is a daunting task and new and creative ways must be found for success. In the recent past there have been notable efforts by civil society organisations across the world to address this challenge through transnational civil society movements. There are however serious challenges to civil society organisations as they stand up to live up to the challenge of their own legitimacy, transparency and accountability, let alone address inherent challenge of new ways of organising to act at he global scene. (Cardinal Uwishaka, Civicus, July 2007)
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- The United Nations: Partners in Civil Society
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This web site is designed to provide information on how the UN system works with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others in civil society on issues of global concern.
http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/home.htm
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- Tomorrow's Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation
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At present, 3.3 billion people live in urban centres across the globe. By 2030 this number is predicted to reach five billion, with 95 percent of this growth in developing countries. For the first time in history, more than half the human population will live in cities. This looks at the impacts of increased urbanisation (IRIN, September 2007).
http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=63&ReportId=73996
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- Transnational Civil Society Movements: The State of Anticorruption Efforts
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Over the past several years there has been increasingly heated debate on issues of global concern, such as corruption. Corruption as a local and national problem has jumped out of these arenas and permeated the international arena as a result of transnational civil society actors. Global civil society organizations (CSOs) provide much of the impetus for the debate on corruption. A growing body of literature focusing on the emergence and mechanisms employed by transnational CSOs is emerging and provides a veritable mine of how they formulate alternative world views. The paper reviews the anticorruption efforts pursued by transnational CSOs, what these organizations are, their structures and how they are evolving. It seeks to capture the activities and functions of the movement and the kind of methods they employ to achieve their goals. (Nelson J.V.B. Querijero, Ronnie V. Amorado, UNRISD, August 2006)
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- Trends in Government Support for Non-Governmental Organizations: Is The "Golden Age" of the NGO Behind Us?
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This paper looks at trends in government support for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), asking whether the "golden age" of the large international NGO (INGO) is behind us. Since the 1980s, INGOs have been seen as increasingly important actors in development policy. The first part of the paper outlines the role of INGOs in development policy from 1980 to the present, arguing that, although the sector was promoted strongly during the heyday of neoliberalism, donor governments have always used INGOs as a tool to carry out aid policies in the South. Current donor rhetoric, however, stresses the need to work with recipient governments to reduce poverty; new aid instruments including budget support and sector-wide approaches (SWAps) aim to channel aid directly to recipient governments. (UNRISD, August 2006)
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- Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice
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Why and when do turning points occur? How are they prepared? What are the choices before us when it comes to economic and social development policies? What is the role of culture in development? Do ideas play a role? What are the interests behind the ideas? The present paper tries to answer these and other questions and compares the advantages and disadvantages of global development theories with regional and local development policies that put more emphasis on the role of culture in economic development. (Louis Emmerij, UNU Wider, February 2006)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2006/rp2006-08.pdf
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- Turning the brain drain from threat to opportunity
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Poor facilities and job prospects mean that in too many developing countries a science graduate's strongest hope of building a research career is to seek a position in a North American or European university. It would be catastrophic if such experiences led developing countries to conclude that investing in training skilled professionals in general - and scientists, engineers and technicians in particular - was a waste of money (Scidevnet, 2 November 2007).
http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=231&language=1
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- UN World Summits and Civil Society Engagement
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While the United Nations (UN) remains an intergovernmental organization, an increase in the number of influential civil society actors has placed new pressures on the organization to accommodate popular voices and further enhance collaboration. The link with civil society actors has been growing since the early 1990s in particular, in the context of UN summits and conferences, and related processes. UN summits and the resulting action plans offer opportunities for CSOs to lobby delegates and the media in support of their ideas and projects, and to adapt a summit theme as an integral part of their own work. There is also scope for civil society actors to advance proposals, and to help implement and monitor summit agendas. But what do such opportunities for civil society engagement really mean? UN summits and related processes can have highly positive-but not always sustainable-impacts on civil society structure, networking and advocacy in countries that have hosted such events, according to UNRISD research. (UNRISD, January 2007)
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- UN, strong civil society needed more than ever at this 'crucial period' - Fréchette
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UN News Centre, 8 September - At this "crucial period" in human affairs, when shocking violence and bitter divisions have challenged the fundamental values of freedom and tolerance, the United Nations and its civil society partners have perhaps never been more sorely needed, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=8182&Cr=civil&Cr1=society
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- UNDP and Civil Society Organisations: A Toolkit for Strengthening Partnerships
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This toolkit features a methodology for Civil Society Organisation (CSO) mappings, CSO capacity assessment, and community to community learning exchanges. It also includes an operational guide for working with CSOs. The toolkit also includes a section on useful resources in the areas of capacity development, assessments, training and NGO legislation. (UNDP, 2006)
http://www.undp.org/partners/cso/publications/CSO_Toolkit_linked.pdf
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- Voices from the Southern Civil Societies: Interplay of National and Global Contexts in the Performan
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A Report prepared for the Department for International Development Co-operation, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. This project originated from the need for information and knowledge about how civil society in the South has developed in an era of increased international recognition in which development aid is increasingly channelled through civil society organisations (CSOs). The study was particularly interested in finding out the national and global factors that influence the capability of CSOs in the Southern societies to act and how these have changed during the last decade. Additionally, the study was also interested in understanding the implications of these factors for the future of civil society in the South and the potential impacts international development cooperation has on their capabilities to act.
http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/kmi/Tutkimus/Projekt/voices/0/toc.htm
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