1st Edition
Here to Help: NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America
By Robyn Eversole
Copyright 2003
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over six billion dollars in developmental assistance is funneled annually through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), yet little is understood about the nature of their relationship with communities and the real impact of their work. This book examines what role NGOs really play in fighting poverty in Latin America. Expert NGO professionals and scholars explore grass-roots relationships between... Read more
Introduction: Here to Help: NGO Meets Community - and What Happens Next? Robyn Eversole 1. Smallholder Agriculture and Poverty Alleviation in Indigenous Communities, James Keese 2. Making a Statement or Finding a Role: British NGOs in Latin America, Jean Grugel 3. Perceptions: NGOs in a Context of Socio-Economic Change, Argentina at the End of the 90s, Patricia Feliu 4. Visions of Development: Catholic NGOs and Indigenous Communities in Northwestern Argentina, Laurie Occhipinti 5. Market Articulation and Poverty Eradication? Critical Reflection on Tourist-Oriented Craft Production in Amazonian Ecuador, Patrick C. Wilson 6. Women, Microenterprise Development, and Poverty in Bolivia, Ana Mayta 7. The Transformation Side of Microenterprise: The Case of the Opportunity International Program in Honduras, Makonen Getu 8. "Awakening:" Campesino Families, Development Institutions, and the Process of Socio-Economic Change, Ana Mara Condori 9. NGOs and Ecotourism in Ecuador's Amazon, Frank Hutchins 10. Disencumbering Development: Alleviating Poverty Through Autonomy in Chiapas, Jeanne Simonelli and Duncan Earle
Biography
Robyn Eversole
