Negotiating Knowledge draws on a diversity of scholarly and practitioner research across three continents, and a number of case study civil society organizations, operating within local, national, and global spheres, to illuminate these challenges for practitioners, scholars, donors and policy-makers.

Negotiating Knowledge draws on a diversity of scholarly and practitioner research across three continents, and a number of case study civil society organizations, operating within local, national, and global spheres, to illuminate these challenges for practitioners, scholars, donors and policy-makers.

This publication focuses on the challenges faced by civil society to remain sustainable in response to major changes in the global political, economic and social environment. Academics and practitioners from all over the world have contributed original articles, practical notes and viewpoints which critically examine the ways in which civil society organisations are affected by and are responding to political and financial dynamics. These include reductions in traditional external aid for civil society activities, but also the growth of new forms of funding through...