1st Edition
European Civil Society and International Development Aid Organisational Incentives and NGO Advocacy
1. Introduction 2. The drivers of development NGO advocacy: Moral, reputational, and organisational concerns 3. The European development NGO community: History, actors, and approaches to advocacy 4. The contents of development NGO advocacy 5. Patterns of European NGDO funding 6. How do moral, reputational, and organisational incentives impact advocacy? 7. Funding versus advocacy: NGDO engagement with the EU Trust Fund for Africa 8. NGDO advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic 9. Concluding thoughts
Biography
Balázs Szent-Iványi is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, and also holds an Associate Professor position at Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary. His research focuses on the political economy of foreign aid, with an emphasis on how foreign aid policy decisions are made in donor countries and the EU. His most recent research has been published in journals such as Third World Quarterly, International Relations, Development Policy Review, the European Journal of Development Research, International Migration, and Democratization.
"The past years have seen important changes in the motivations behind and various aims of the European Union’s development policy. This book makes an excellent contribution to the literature by analysing how European NGOs have contributed and responded to these policy changes."
Niels Keijzer, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute
