Archive for the ‘Civil Society / NGO’ Category
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
(from the One World Trust 's "Accountability in Action" newsletter, January 2010)
"Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have seen a significant change in their role and influence in society and politics. They are now major providers of essential services, influential advocates for marginalised groups and knowledgeable advisors on public policy. As ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
In early 2009 five international development NGOs participated in reflection and discussion as part of a research project called ‘How wide are the ripples?’. The aim was to explore the flow and influence of knowledge produced in grassroots participatory processes within the international NGOs which commissioned or initiated process. This ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
(from the Pelican email list)
Dear all,
In reaction to the message that I sent to you earlier today, Alnoor Ebrahim sent me a link to a recent hearing of the US Congress Committee on Financial Services that looked into 'The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review and the Role of Democratic Participatory ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Workshop Date: Thursday 8th October 2009 Time: 12.30pm to 4.30pm
Venue: Toynbee Hall, Aldgate, London
Twenty years ago, evaluation in the third sector was limited. There was very little support for third sector organisations wishing to evaluate their work, and self-evaluation was treated with suspicion by many. The situation ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Masooda Banoa, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Accepted 22 November 2007.
Available online 2 July 2008.
Summary
Based on a country-wide survey of 40 civil society organizations in Pakistan, this paper demonstrates that the policy of channeling development aid through NGOs in the South in the name of generating social capital and ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
>A report< by Linda Kelly, Rosalind David, Chris Roche. December 2008
Introduction
"AusAID supports a range of civil society programs across several countries. These include large scale bi-lateral programs as well as smaller projects focused on particular sectors and programs which support the work of non-Government Organisations (NGOs).
Civil society work is ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Drawing upon this experience, the guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
“Does Empowerment Work?: Underlying concepts and the experience of two community empowerment programs in Cambodia and Tanzania ” (2008), by Aldo Benini.
This book length document "investigates the effectiveness in poor rural societies of a concept of modernity that has enjoyed an explosive ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Prepared for Sightsavers International by Jennifer Chapman & Antonella Mancini
jenny.chapman@tiscali.co.uk antonella.mancini@blueyonder.co.uk 9 pages 10th April 2008
"This paper investigates key debates and issues around impact assessment and performance measurement for UK development NGOs. It was originally written for Sightsavers to stimulate debate and thinking among staff, Board and senior management team. ...
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