Download or read book Ngos As Learning Organizations in Developing Societies written by M Nise Alibeyo Lu and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existing theoretical works claim that Non-Governmental Organizations should become Learning Organizations in order to adapt and survive in a complex and rapidly changing environment since the learning and knowledge are their main sources. However, theories of learning are often far removed from management interventions and policies designed to encourage learning. This study is primarily concerned by theories of Organizational Learning that occurs as a part of Non-Governmental Organizations in developing societies. The research study mainly consists of two parts: (i) Review of the existing literature on Non-Governmental Organizations as Civil Society Development Organizations, Organizational Learning, Learning Organizations and Social Context of Northern Cyprus, (ii) Case study on Turkish Cypriot Non-Governmental Organizations regarding to what extent they are Learning Organizations and to what extent they support sustainable community development by Creating Shared Value in Northern Cyprus.Using data obtained from mixed-method research strategy, the extent to which small Non-Governmental Organizations display the characteristics of a Learning Organization was investigated.

Download or read book Non Governmental Organizations Management and Development written by David Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime resource for those working (or wishing to work) with and for NGOs. The third edition of Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development is fully updated and thoroughly reorganized, covering key issues including, but not limited to, debates on the changing global context of international development and the changing concepts and practices used by NGOs. The interdisciplinary approach employed by David Lewis results in an impressive text that draws upon current research in non-profit management, development management, public management and management theory, exploring the activities, relationships and internal structure of the NGO. This book remains the first and only comprehensive and academically grounded guide to the issues facing international development NGOs as they operate in increasingly complex and challenging conditions around the world. It is the perfect resource for students undertaking studies of NGOs and the non-profit sector, in addition to being an excellent resource for development studies students more generally.

Download or read book The Management of Non Governmental Development Organizations written by David Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review of existing literature from a variety of disciplines (including management, development studies, and social policy) and provides wide-ranging examples from the author’s own practical and research experience. New to this edition: twelve new detailed case studies of NGO management issues and challenges new discussion points, lessons learned and questions for debate to guide the reader through each chapter definitions of key terms highlighted key ideas to illustrate each chapter. Revealing the distinctive organizational challenges faced by NGOs this second edition provides a fully updated and revised text that will prove invaluable to all those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary sector or development studies. Visit the Companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/978-0-415-37093-6.

Download or read book Education and Human Resource Development written by M.L. Narasaiah and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Promotion of Higher Education in Research, Will Education Go to Market? Corporate Ambitions in Education, Private Education: The Poor s Best Chance?, For a Broader Approach to Education, Wiring up the Ivory Towers, Population Growth and Education, Violence in Schools: A World Wide Affair, Helping Your Child Learn, Beyond Economics, Population Growth and Jobs, Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Solving the Unemployment Problem by Looking Beyond the Job, Technological Entrepreneurship: The New Force for Economic Growth, Challenging Traditional Economic Growth, Can Economic Growth Reduce Poverty, High World Trade Growth Vs. Output: WTO Sees Link to Globalisation, What s Driving Migration, Income Gap Widens, Policy Researchers and Policy Makers: Never the Twain Shall Meet? Crisis Prevention: Can Better Development Planning Lesson the Toll of Civil Emergencies and Natural Disasters? Money Alone is Not Enough: Technology Transfer and Environmental Protection, Population Growth and Income, Taxation System in Developing Countries, Population Growth and Housing, Opening Markets for Agriculture, Is Copyright on the Wrong Track? For a Fair Sharing of Time, Richer or Poorer?

Download or read book NGOs and Organizational Change written by Alnoor Ebrahim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebrahim analyses the organizational evolution of NGOs combining case studies with extensive review of literature.

Download or read book The Learning NGO written by Bruce Britton and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the learning organization has spawned a number of books within the corporate sector. The ideas underpinning this concept have a generic appeal and as a result, organizational learning is the subject of increasing interest in the NGO sector and the not-for-profit world more widely. This paper sets out to examine the relevance of the learning organization concept for NGOs and concludes that the ideas have significant relevance for the sector. The paper aims to provide NGO staff with a conceptual framework for the subject - its purpose is not simply to describe the characteristics of a learning organization but to encourage NGOs to examine their organizations in the light of these characteristics. For this reason the paper includes a diagnostic tool (the learning NGO questionnaire) which NGOs can use to assess their current capacity for organizational learning. The paper seeks to stimulate ideas about how NGOs can rise to the challenge of learning from, adapting and continually improving the quality of what they do, if they are to remain relevant as agents of social change in the 21st century.

Download or read book Non Governmental Organizations and Development written by David Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are high profile actors in the field of international development, both as providers of services to vulnerable individuals and communities and as campaigning policy advocates. This book provides a critical introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and development. Written by two authors with more than twenty years experience of research and practice in the field, the book combines a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. It highlights the importance of NGOs in development, but it also engages fully with the criticisms that the increased profile of NGOs in development now attracts. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development begins with a discussion of the wide diversity of NGOs and their roles, and locates their recent rise to prominence within broader histories of struggle as well as within the ideological context of neo-liberalism. It then moves on to analyze how interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical trends and debates within development studies, before analyzing NGOs and their practices, using a broad range of short case studies of successful and unsuccessful interventions. David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji then moves on to describe the ways in which NGOs are increasingly important in relation to ideas and debates about ‘civil society’, globalization and the changing ideas and practices of international aid. The book argues that NGOs are now central to development theory and practice and are likely to remain important actors in development in the years to come. In order to appreciate the issues raised by their increasing diversity and complexity, the authors conclude that it is necessary to deploy a historically and theoretically informed perspective. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners. The format of the book includes figures, photographs and case studies as well as reader material in the form of summary points and questions. Despite the growing importance of the topic, no single short, up-to-date book exists that sets out the main issues in the form of a clearly written, academically-informed text: until now.

Download or read book Allies or Adversaries written by Jennifer N. Brass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of Kenya. She examines several case studies of NGOs within Africa in order to demonstrate how the boundary between purely state and non-state actors blurs, resulting in a very slow turn toward more accountable and democratic public service administration. Ideal for scholars, international development practitioners, and students interested in global or international affairs, this detailed analysis provides rich data about NGO-government and citizen-state interactions in an accessible and original manner.

Download or read book Learning NGOs and the Dynamics of Development Partnership written by Farhad Hossain and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation Storage and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries written by Steve W. Witt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are growing exponentially. In 1993, the Yearbook of International Organizations listed 16,000 internationally recognized NGOs. By 2004, this number was 63,000. With this increase comes a staggering growth in the activities and intellectual output of NGOs working on a local and international level. As the mission of both libraries and NGOs increasingly intersect, these organizations must collaborate to provide essential services that revolve around the creation, dissemination, and storage of information. This volume's eight essays focus on collaborative work between NGOs and libraries in the study and resolution of global issues ranging from AIDS to food security, and social transformation.

Download or read book Managing NGOs in Developing Countries Concepts frameworks and cases written by LUMS-McGill Social Enterprise Development Centre and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume there are well-researched management case studies that are drawn from real life issues in non-government organizations. The case studies are designed to develop professionals to build and enhance the capacity of the social sector. This volume focuses on concepts and frameworks of major management disciplines: Managing People and Organizations, Marketing, Finance and Control, Operations Management and Managing Change.

Download or read book Non Governmental Development Organizations of Developing Countries written by Theunis and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication describes and analyses the role of non-governmental development organizations (NGDOs) of the Southern hemisphere. It is primarily intended as a text for interested outsiders -- such as officials of UN-organizations, politicians, civil servants and scientists -- but it will also contribute to self-knowledge and self-reflection among members of the NGO community. After a brief introduction, the reader is introduced to a substantial number of non-governmental development organizations from three continents by means of organizational portraits, written by the NGDOs themselves. Each contribution is prefaced by a brief description of the organization, and all address the following basic subjects: - Development -- for whom, by whom? - The NGDO's objectives and strategies - Organizational structure - North-South cooperation - The NGDO's achievements - Staff motivation

Download or read book Societal Learning and Change written by Steve Waddell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing roads in Madagascar; forestry along Canada's Pacific Coast; water and sanitation projects in South Africa; community banking in the United States; constructing a new global system for corporate reporting. These all have something in common. They provide great illustrations of the types of profound and wise changes needed in the way we run our affairs if we are to respond to the scale of environmental and social challenges and opportunities facing us. They are examples of "societal learning and change". Today, this phenomenon is occurring across industries as diverse as resources extraction, infrastructure development, agriculture and information technology at the local, national, regional and global levels. Its essence involves the ability to create rich relationships that bridge large differences. This book describes this phenomenon for practitioners to help them address issues and develop opportunities more effectively. Building on the traditions of individual and organizational learning, this book suggests that our challenge is to create learning societies and processes. This involves both change in ourselves as individuals, but also change in the way the three key systems that make up our societies – the political system (government), economic system (business) and social system (civil society) – function by creating more robust interactions that respond to human and environmental imperatives rather than organizational ones. Societal Learning and Change presents a meta-framework that covers diverse approaches, including corporate citizenship, social responsibility, community development, private-public partnerships, inter-sectoral collaboration and sustainability strategies. It makes sense of all of these by emphasising that they all share the need to change relationships at the societal level and explaining how to do this from a systems perspective. The book helps overcome the conundrum where individual organisations are unsuccessfully trying to achieve big change with their stakeholders. Rather than stakeholder management with an organization-centric viewpoint, this book describes the importance of taking a stakeholder engagement and issue/opportunity-centric strategy. Wherever you are, you can make a contribution to shifting the paradigm through a societal learning and change strategy. The critical contribution is creating new relationships between people and organizations that traditionally would not interact but in fact have common interests. When these relationships become meaningful by addressing a problem or developing an opportunity, people begin to learn about each other and develop mutual appreciation and understanding. Often this process is complicated and confusing. People do not use words in the same way even if they speak the same formal language; they do not learn or perceive the world the same way although they may share a common culture; their organizations have diverse goals, resources and weaknesses that make working together problematic. However, it is these very differences that are the source of the value of working together. Societal Learning and Change aims to make it easier to solve differences in order to work together successfully; it does this by identifying some of the differences as sources of tension and opportunity and describing the development processes of building relationships that can produce mutually rewarding innovation that is unimaginable when the relationship begins. This is an extremely optimistic book at a time of great pessimism about the huge forces of globalization and corporate power that seem to be overwhelming us. It will be essential reading for students and practitioners in the fields of organizational learning, sustainability, poverty, international development and stakeholder relations.

Download or read book Public Policy Toward Non governmental Organizations in Developing Countries written by William Jack and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a developing country government is not good at providing public services such as health care, education, and social protection, would NGOs be better at doing so? What advantages do NGOs have over for-profit providers of publicly funded services? And considering the importance of donor funding, which is better for delivering such services, an international NGO or a grassroots NGO?

Download or read book International Organizations in Education written by Michael D. Stephens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, International Organizations in Education is a collection of essays written to explore the various roles of international organizations in the field of adult education. The book highlights two distinct categories that emerged: organizations with a world-wide commitment, such as Unesco, ad those with a more regional basis, such as the African Association for Literacy and Adult Education. Each contributor examines the history and contemporary characteristics of the organization before going on to consider possible future directions. The achievements and role of such organizations are considered, and each author offers a depth of personal experience. International Organizations in Education offers a varied and wide-ranging view of the history of international organizations in the field of education and the role of those organizations at the time of original publication.

Download or read book Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs written by Tiina Kontinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience. Despite the overwhelming discourses of NGOs as learning organisations, little is known about the phenomenon of learning within NGOs. As constantly changing buzzwords and institutional approaches abound and old ideas and concepts are "re-discovered", development NGOs are often accused of trying to reinvent the wheel as they struggle to escape from the challenges of development amnesia. Based on detailed empirical data on the everyday practices and accounts of development practitioners, this book moves between the boundaries of organisational institutionalism, learning theories, management and ethnographies of NGOs practices to investigate the many faces of organisational learning in an attempt to counteract development amnesia. Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs will be an essential guide for students, scholars and development practitioners with an interest in development management and organisational theory.

Download or read book Building NGO CBO Capacity written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2003 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: