Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

In the mid-1990s, when the United Nations adopted positions affirming a woman's right to be free from bodily harm and to control her own reproductive health, it was both a coup for the international women's rights movement and an instructive moment for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seeking to influence UN decision making.

This book evaluates the credibility of NGOs as they monitor and supplant the public and private sectors.

In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "e;world's greatest humanitarian crisis.

A deep insight into the emergence and persistence of new continental development institutions in Africa and their capacity to affect development outcomes.

Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty defined by the $1.

Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact - a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare.

Hilfsorganisationen haben sich dazu verpflichtet, Leben zu retten, Leiden zu lindern und menschliche Grundbedürfnisse zu sichern.

A behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth centuryTom Hughes, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, made an ominous prediction in 1965.

World orders are increasingly contested.

In this book some of the leading thinkers in development studies trace the history of their multi-disciplinary subject from the late colonial period and its establishment during decolonization all the way through to its contemporary concerns with poverty reduction.

What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes?

Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as 'thieves-in-law' exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organized criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR.

It is increasingly being accepted that there is a benefit to both parties when a relationship is established between an NGO and a company.

The voluntary sector is made up primarily of not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations that engage with social issues.

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more.

What role do think tanks play in shaping public policy and public discourse in the United States?

In this book, Julia Berger examines internal meaning-making structures and processes driving NGO behavior, identifying constructs from within a religious tradition that forge new ways of pursuing social change.

Many NGOs are mobilizing transnationally in order to form new social networks that enable them to better interact with nation-state policies on migrant and refugee inclusion.

America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises.

Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

"e;Development"e; is often misunderstood and can embrace everything from large infrastructure projects to small-scale environmental initiatives.

Adams surveys the impact of transnational organizations and NGOs on Latin American politics since 1990.

This powerful and empowering text offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for enhanced global governance that can create workable solutions to mass poverty.

After World War II dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.

This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organizations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, China and the USA.

A behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth centuryTom Hughes, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, made an ominous prediction in 1965.

Ein Leitfaden für erfolgreiche Stiftungsarbeit Welcher Voraussetzungen bedarf ein erfolgreiches Stiftungsmanagement?

This IPCC Special Report provides the latest comprehensive assessment of the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate.

Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance.

Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about.

For many years Tanzania was the darling of international aid agencies.

Civil society plays an increasingly powerful role in the global landscape, emerging as key actors in preventing and managing conflict, and building more peaceful and sustainable societies .

In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of how NGOs function.

Usually remembered for its slogan ';Tippecanoe and Tyler too,' the election of 1840 is also the first presidential election of which it might be truly said, ';Its the Economy, Stupid.

Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats.

The development industry is worth billions.

This book explores the paradoxical relationship between NGOs and capitalism, showing that supposedly progressive organisations often promote essentially the same policies and ideas as existing governments.

1978: In Rhodesia, the Internal Settlement led to the creation of a coalition government.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid?

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

Shows how nonprofit organizations and NGOs can demonstrate that they are using their funds appropriately and delivering on their promises.