The social dimension of development studies has gained significance in recent decades. Civil society and social capital are, therefore, increasingly more examined as these concepts are widely discussed; and there are not many empirical country specific studies of them. Accordingly, this book focuses on local participation and social capital in womens development projects in Turkey, with a central question revolving around the influence of internal vs. external financing on local participation in womens development projects of NGOs. In order to examine the role of financing in local...