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The Development of Civil Society in Central Asia considers the applicability and use of civil society, both as a concept and in practice, in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The volume examines whether civil society organisations (CSOs) are a progressive force for change, or a safety net. Various forms of CSOs are investigated: NGOs and community based organisations, trade unions, political parties and religious groups, as well as more long-standing soviet and traditional institutions and practices. The book contains lessons and perspectives about civil society growth across time, and considers future directions.

Financial Management for Development is written for non-financial staff and members of governing bodies of NGOs who need to understand financial systems and statements. It shows records and statements used within organisations and how these can be interpreted. The author uses a case study to explain how to: construct and monitor a budget, analyse the range of accounting records used internationally, interpret and raise questions about accounting statements, apply internal control questions to identify organisational weaknesses and how to utilise the audit process to achieve institutional development. International variations in terminology and format and a comprehensive glossary are shown in appendices.

Civil Society in Action uses case studies from around the world which show a clear framework for understanding the nature and role of civil society and makes recommendations for more effective civil society strengthening. Examples of action by indigenous groups, advocacy journalism and transnational southern campaigning alliances are all explored.

Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation incorporates the examples and innovative M&E solutions from an enormous range of countries, circumstances and specialisms. Emphasising Southern perspectives and covering a variety of experiences, it stresses the important role of M&E in challenging many of our assumptions about poverty alleviation.

The results of studying a number of co-ordination bodies worldwide are distilled here into suggestions for setting up a field-based NGO co-ordination mechanism. The handbook provides chapters on getting started, the first year, expanding and consolidating, financial security, regional and international perspectives and trouble shooting.

Power and Partnership seeks to contribute to our understanding of capacity-building interventions, drawing out the issues and insights from practice. It also highlights the implications, particularly for Northern NGOs involved in developing strategies for capacity-building, aimed at all development professionals engaged in capacity-building.

Case studies of urban NGOs illuminate the factors necessary for effective NGO performance in the city and define a capacity building agenda for NGOs to realise potential in urban poverty alleviation. This book shows potential for a future where NGOs operate as technically proficient urban development agencies and credible advocates for the poor.

This publication captures the dynamics and discussions of INTRAC's Fifth International Conference on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), in April 2003 in the Netherlands. Case studies illustrate the circumstances under which it has been possible to break away from traditional forms of M&E, and how obstacles to more reflexive approaches are overcome.

Changing Expectations? provides an insightful overview both of the concept of civil society and its operationalisation. The book presents comprehensive analyses of practical considerations such as capacity building and monitoring and evaluation of civil society support programmes; a rich synthesis of viewpoints from a wide variety of stakeholders.

People and Change is about improving the impact of capacity building. Using a mixture of case studies, illustrations from experiences and articles based on reflective practice, People and Change provides practitioners with ideas, suggestions and challenges to improve the effectiveness of the capacity building interventions.

Capacity Building Framework draws on INTRAC's experience in capacity building consultancy and programme work and on its successful international training in capacity building. It adopts a step-by-step approach and introduces a new values-based model to enable decision makers to plan capacity-building interventions in a variety of contexts.

Measuring the Process is a unique attempt to set out guidelines for evaluating social development processes. It is intended primarily as a practical guide for undertaking the evaluation of social development projects and combines a theoretical overview of the concepts involved, with insights into the planning and implementation of evaluation.

NGOs, Civil Society and the State contains papers that examine the role of NGOs in civil society. It includes general thematic papers on civil society, case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, and papers that analyse initiatives undertaken by Northern NGOs and donors in democratisation programmes in the South.

Evaluating Empowerment is the fourth book in a series based on International Workshops on the Evaluation of Social Development. It includes a number of commissioned papers as well as papers presented by participants. It also includes both regional presentations as well as institutional statements by DFID, SIDA, Action Aid and Cordaid.

NGOs and the State in the 21st Century leads the way in its timely overview of these concerns now confronting the development sector. Through interviews with politicians, civil servants and NGO staff in Ghana and India, the authors present their cutting-edge research in a lively and engaging manner.

This book explores the concept and practice of 'partnership' between non-government organisations (NGOs) in the North and South. Based on a rigourous four-year study, the book draws together the perspectives of a group of European NGOs and compares these with the experiences of a selection of their partners in Brazil, Cambodia and Tanzania.

NGOs have increasingly assumed a political function: that of challenging and redressing the status quo in favour of people-centrered approaches to development. The case studies, guidelines and analyses presented in NGOs and Governments look more closely at the complexities involved in the NGO-government dialogue.

Few NGO decision-makers, are sure of what Organisation Development consultancy looks like in practice; whether it does really strengthen NGOs; and on what factors its success is contingent. Demystifying Organisational Development examines the theory and practice of OD consultancy with NGOs by analysing the actual experiences of nine NGOs.

Fragile states is unique in that it deals with some of the effects of regional instability on the development trajectories (or lack of them) in the Arab world. Using Lebanon as an example Fayyad explores the real meaning of the fragile states concepts that has become part of a dominant policy discourse in recent years.

This book examines the theory and practice of capacity building. It discusses common organisational challenges facing NGOs and presents in-depth practical case studies. These cases illustrate a range of assistance models designed to increase the organisational capacity of small enterprise development agencies in Africa.

This guide is offered as a contribution to the development community to assist it in its work and facilitate the processes of action and reflection, or 'Praxis'. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed introduction to the process of developing monitoring and evaluation systems.

This book is based on the proceedings of the international INTRAC workshop on 'Governance, Democracy, and Conditionality: What Role for NGOs?' which was held in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, from 4-6 June 1993. Governance, Democracy and Conditionality discusses the role of NGOs in the new policy agenda concerning governance and conditionality.

NGOs Engaging with Business covers the strategy and tactics for engagement from adversarial to cosy funding partners, with the emerging middle ground of negotiated, constructive co-operation; what development NGOs might learn from environmental NGOs; and how NGOs should tackle corporate codes of conduct. NGO-business collaborations are documented.

Knowledge, Power and Development Agendas explores how southern NGOs can have more of a voice in determining the work they actually do, and how they can get more of their ideas on to the international development agenda. It reports recommendations for overcoming, challenging or bypassing information loops on funding, ideas and networks.

A number of studies have looked at the direct funding of southern NGOs by official governmental agencies. However, few have done so from a southern perspectives. The emphasis of Direct Funding from a Southern Perspective is on the changing relationships between governments and NGOs in the north and south.

Commissioned by the Netharlands Organization for International Development Co-operation (NOVIB), the report provides an overview of NGO institutional development (ID) in the contaxt of sub-Saharan Africa. Its primary purpose is to assist European NGOs to formulate policies and strategies toward the ID of the NGO community.

Outcomes and Impacts provides a comprehensive discussion of the difficulties, dilemmas and opportunities of understanding the outcomes and impact of social development programmes and projects. Lessons are provided to establish more effective methods for understanding the outcomes and impact of development interventions.