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NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalising World book cover

1st Edition

NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalising World

Edited By Barbara Rugendyke Copyright 2007
284 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book traces the recent growth in NGO advocacy. Barbara Rugendyke presents empirical findings about the impacts of NGO advocacy activity on the policies and practices of global and regional institutions. The research reveals the mixed successes of advocacy as a strategy for addressing the ongoing causes of poverty in developing nations. Case studies illustrate the advocacy work of Australian... Read more

1. Lilliputians or Leviathans?: NGOs as Advocates  Part 1: Contesting the Global Futures – From Charity to Challenge  2. Charity to Advocacy: Changing Agendas of Australian NGO's  3. Speaking Out: Australian NGO's as Advocates  Part 2: Towards Global Equality?: Internationalisation, Oxfam and the World Bank  4. Global Action: International NGO's and Advocacy  5. Oxfam, the World Bank and Heavily Indebted Poor Countries  Part 3: A Hesitant Courtship: Engaging the Corporate Sector  6. Confrontation, Cooperation and Co-Optation: NGO Advocacy and Corporations  7. Risks and Rewards: NGOs Engaging the Corporate Sector  Part 4: Dam(n)ing the Mekong?: Banks, States, NGOs and the Poor  8. Advocacy, Civil Society and the State in the Mekong Region  9. Asian Development Bank: NGO Encounters and the Theun-Hinboun Dam, Laos  10. Making Poverty History?

Biography

Barbara Rugendyke is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

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