NGOs as advocates for development in a globalising world

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Author:

Rugendyke, Barbara.

ISBN:

9780415395304

9780415395311

9780203939215

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Lilliputians or leviathans? NGOs as advocates / Barbara Rugendyke -- Contesting global futures: from charity to challenge -- Charity to advocacy: changing agendas of Australian NGOs / Barbara Rugendyke and Cathryn Ollif -- Speaking out: Australian NGOs and advocacy / Cathryn Ollif -- Towards global equity? : internationalisation, Oxfam and the World Bank -- Global action: international NGOs and advocacy / Ian Anderson -- Oxfam, the World Bank and highly indebted poor countries / Ian Anderson

A hesitant courtship: engaging the corporate sector -- Confrontation, cooperation and cooptation: NGO advocacy and corporations / John Sayer -- Risks and rewards: NGOs engaging the corporate sector / John Sayer -- Dam(n)ing the Mekong? : banks, states, NGOs and the poor -- Advocacy, civil society and the state in the Mekong region / Philip Hirsch -- Asian development bank-NGO encounters and the Thueng Neum Dam, Laos / Lindsay Soutar -- Making poverty history? / Barbara Rugendyke.

Abstract:

"This book traces the recent growth in NGO advocacy. 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 NGOs, of British NGOs policies about engaging with multinationals, of Oxfam International's advocacy directed at World Bank policies and NGO advocacy in the Mekong Region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the mixed successes of advocacy as a strategy used by NGOs in attempting to address the ongoing causes of poverty in developing nations are examined. This volume is a useful aid to researchers, students and lecturers and to development practitioners interested in advocacy as a development strategy."--Publisher's website.

Subject Term:

Non-governmental organizations.

Social advocacy.

Economic development -- International cooperation.

Added Author:

Rugendyke, Barbara.

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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 NGOs, of British NGOs policies about engaging with multinationals, of Oxfam International's advocacy directed at World Bank policies and NGO advocacy in the Mekong Region.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the mixed successes of advocacy as a strategy used by NGOs in attempting to address the ongoing causes of poverty in developing nations are examined.nbsp;This volume is anbsp;useful aid to researchers, students and lecturers and to development practitioners interested in advocacy as a development strategy.