Civil Society Sustainability: New Challenges in Organisational Legitimacy, Credibility, and Viability

ISBN-13: 9780367321901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Brian Pratt; Rachel Hayman

Opis

This book focuses on the challenges faced by civil society to remain sustainable in response to major changes in the global political, economic and social environment. It was originally published as a special issue of Development in Practice.

Spis treści

 1. Editorial  2. Unintended consequences: DAC governments and shrinking civil society space in Kenya  3. Lessons for supporting policy influencing in restrictive environments  4. Advancing post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals in a changing development landscape: Challenges of NGOs in Ghana   5. Non-governmental development organisations’ sustainability, partnership, and resourcing: futuristic reflections on a problematic trialogue  6. New routes to CSO sustainability: the strategic shift to social enterprise and social investment  7. Civil society organisations and the fight for rights in Brazil: analysis of an evolving context and future challenges  8. The sustainability of Latin American CSOs: historical patterns and new funding sources   9. Action for Children: a model for stimulating local fundraising in low- and middle-income countries  10. Gender, diversity, and sustainable civil society strengthening: lessons from Ethiopia  11. The state of Arab philanthropy and the case for change  12. Civil society versus captured state: a winning strategy for sustainable change  13. Russian civil society and development challenges in Eurasia  14. Crises in civil society organisations: opportunities for transformation  15. Unpacking civil society sustainability: looking back, broader, deeper, forward

O autorze

Brian Pratt is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice,　and previously founding Director of INTRAC. He has worked for OXFAM both in the UK and Andean countries. His research interests include sustainability and other aspects of the development of civil society, and he has written and published widely on these topics.

Rachel Hayman is Director of Research, Learning and Communications at INTRAC, where she is currently leading INTRAC’s work on the impacts of the changing global political economy on the sustainability of civil society organisations. Rachel’s role at INTRAC focuses on bridging academic research, policy-making and practice.