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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
