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This book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. This book re-imagines and re-centers Civil Society collaborations in development, offering Southern-centred ways of understanding and developing relations, roles, and processes, in theory and practice.
List of contents
1 Introduction: Towards reimagining civil society collaborations in development
Margit van Wessel, Tiina Kontinen and Justice Nyigmah Bawole 2 Conceptual foundations: Reimagining roles, relations, and processes
Margit van Wessel and Tiina Kontinen PART 1 Reclaiming the lead 3 Reflections on using a community-led research and action (CLRA) methodology to explore alternatives in international development
Lise Woensdregt, Kibui Edwin Rwigi and Naomi van Stapele 4 Reimagining development from local voices and positions - Southern feminist movements in the lead
Njeri Kimotho, Catherine Odenyo-Ndekera and Janna Visser 5 Building resilient communities by growing community assets, capacities, and trust
Stella Wanjiru Chege 6 Contesting practices of aid localization in Jordan and Lebanon: Civil society organizations' mobilization of local knowledge
Elena Aoun, Lyla André and Alena Sander PART 2 Displacing the North-South dyad 7 Southern civil society organizations as practical hybrids: Dealing with legitimacy in a Ugandan gender advocacy organization
Tiina Kontinen and Alice N. Ndidde 8 Beyond the North-South dyad: Diaspora-led organizations in development collaborations
Susan Appe 9 Exploring mutual dependence through non-financial resource exchanges: A Tanzanian non-governmental organization network case study
Sandy Zook, Samantha Temple and Emmanuel Malisa PART 3 Asking Southern-centred questions 10 Advocating for land rights in Kenya: A community-based organization's attempt to reconcile external funding with local legitimacy
Selma Zijlstra and Marja Spierenburg 11 Surreptitious symbiosis in promoting advocacy? Collaboration among non-governmental organizations, social movements, and activists in West Africa
Emmanuel Kumi and Albert Arhin 12 Moving beyond (en)forced North-South collaboration for development: Possibilities from Pakistan
Themrise Khan 13 Shifting the narrative: Localization and 'shift the power' in the African context
Emmanuel Kumi, Thomas Yeboah, Nancy Kankam Kusi, Jimm Chick Fomunjong and Charles Kojo Vandyck 14 Contrasting gifting postures in a local Ghanaian community: Are there lessons about African philanthropy?
Esi Eduafowa Sey and Justice Nyigmah Bawole PART 4 Learning new roles for the North 15 Localizing humanitarian knowledge management: A call for pragmatic robust action
Femke Mulder 16 The journey to Southern leadership in programming: The story of a decade-long Ghanaian-Dutch partnership
Mohammed Awal Alhassan and Marijke Priester 17 Starting advocacy programmes from the South: Rethinking multi-country programming
Margit van Wessel PART 5 Choosing new starting points for collaboration 18 A feminist approach to collaboration: A sex workers' network in India
B. Rajeshwari, Margit van Wessel and Nandini Deo 19 Practising organizational autonomy at the community level: Evidence from advocacy projects in Uganda and Vietnam
Lena Gutheil 20 Beyond the North-South dichotomy: A case study on tackling global problems starting from the South
Runa Khan, Dorothee ter Kulve and Sarah Haaij 21 Shift the power? Constraints and enablers of more equitable partnerships between non-governmental organizations: The case of Dutch small-scale development initiatives in Uganda and India
Sara Kinsbergen, Mieke Molthof, Linda van der Hoek and Anna Vellinga 22 Conclusions
Margit van Wessel, Tiina Kontinen and Justice Nyigmah Bawole
About the author
Margit van Wessel is Associate Professor at the Centre for Integrative Development, Department of Communication, Technology and Philosophy at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands.
Tiina Kontinen is Associate Professor for International Development Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Justice Nyigmah Bawole is Professor of Public Administration and Management, and Dean, at the University of Ghana Business School.
Summary
This book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. This book re-imagines and re-centers Civil Society collaborations in development, offering Southern-centred ways of understanding and developing relations, roles, and processes, in theory and practice.
