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Can Ngos Make a Difference? www.flacsoandes.edu.ec Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin FlACSO - Biblioteca ZED•BOOKS London & New York Can NGOs Make a Difftrence? The Challenge 01 Development Altematives was first published in 2008 by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London NI 9JF, UK and Room 4°0, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.zedbooks.co.uk Editorial copyright © AnthonyJ. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. 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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data available ISBN 978 I 84277 892 o hb ISBN 978 1 84277 893 7.pb Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, King s Lynn, Norfolk , Contents List of Figures and Tables VIII Acknowledgements IX PART 1 Critical Challenges 1 Introduction: Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives 3 Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin 2 Have NGOs 'Made a Difference?' From Manchester to Birmingham with an Elephant in the Room 38 Michael Edwards PART II NGO Alternatives under Pressure 3 Challenges to Participation, Citizenship and Democracy: Perverse Confluence and Displacement of Meanings 55 Evelina Dagnino 4 Learning from Latín America: Recent Trends in European NGO Policymaking 71 Kees Biekart 5 Whatever Happened to Reciprocity? Implications of Donor Emphasis on 'Voice' and 'Impact' as Rationales for Working with NGOs in Development 90 Alan Thomas 6 Development and the New Security Agenda: W(h)ither(ing) NGO Alternatives? 111 Alan Fowler PART III Pursuing Alternatives: NGO Strategies in Practice 7 How Civil Society Organizations Use Evidence to Influence Policy Processes 133 Amy Pollard and Julius Court 8 Civil Society Participation as the Focus of Northern NGO Support: The Case of Dutch Co-financing Agencies 153 Irene Guijt 9 Producing Knowledge, Generating Alternatives? Challenges to Research-oriented NGOs in Central America and Mexico 175 Cynthia Bazán, Nelson Cuellar, Ileana Gómez, Cati Illsley, Adrian López, Iliana Monterroso, Joaliné Pardo, Jose Luis Rocha, Pedro Torres and Anthony J. Bebbington 10 Anxieties and Affirmations: NGO-Donor Partnerships for Social Transformation 196 Mary Racelis PART IV Being Alternative 11 Reinventing International NGOs: A View from the Dutch Co-financing System 221 Harry Derksen and Pim Verhallen 12 Transforming or Conforming? NGOs Training Health Promoters and the Dominant Paradigm of the Development Industry in Bolivia 240 Katie S. Bristow 13 Political Entrepreneurs or Development Agents: An NGO's Tale of Resistance and Acquíescence in Madhya Pradesh, India 261 Vasudha Chhotray 14 Is This Really the End of the Road for Gender Mainstreaming? Getting to Grips with Gender and Institutional Change 279 Nicholas Piálek 15 The Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism of International NGOs 298 Helen Yanacopulos and Matt Baillie Smith 16 Development as Reform and Counter-reform: Paths Travelled by Slum/Shack Dwellers International 316 Joel Bolnick PART V Taking Stock and Thinking Forward 17 Reflections on NGOs and Development: The Elephant, the Dinosaur, Several Tigers but No Owl 337 David Hulrne Contributors 346 Index 351 Figures and Tables Table 2.1 The Manchester conferences: a summary 40 Table 2.2 NGO imperatives 48 Figure 2.1 Trajectories of NGO impact 51 Table 4.1 European NGOs involved in the mapping exercise, by size of combined Latin America programme 73 Table 5.1 NGO and official aid to developing countries 94 Figure 6.1 Overview of potential NGDO limitations due to aid in a security strategy 113 Figure 7.1 The policy cycle 135 Table 7.1 What matters for influencing the key components of policy processes? 148 Figure 8.1 The power cube 156 Table 8.1 Overview of countries involved in the CSP programme evaluation 161 Figure 12.1 Diagrammatic representation of relationships between fields 255 Box 16.1 SDI influence in city and national policies to address urban poverty 321 FLACSO - B'iblinteca Acknowledgements This book is based on papers presented at the fourth 'Manchester' NGO conference, held in late June 2005 and entitled 'Reclaiming Development: Assessing the Contribution of NGOs to Development Alternatives'. Financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council-funded Global Poverty Research Group, the Ford Foundation and the Canadian International Development Agency helped defray costs associated with the conference and the preparation and circulation of this volume. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for this generous support. Our collective debts - intellectual and logistical - are too great for us to acknowledge everyone who helped make the conference a success and the book a reality. However, we do want to record a few specific and heartfelt thanks. As has been the case since the first Manchester NGO conferences in the early 1990S, Debra Whitehead has provided excellent administrative support to ensure that all ran smoothly. David Hulme, a force behind the three prior NGO conferences, has been a source of inspiration and guidance. Leonith Hinojosa, researcher at the University of Manchester's Institute for Development Policy and Management, was an expert and remarkably efficient editor as the manuscript was being prepared. Thanks also to our publishers for their support and encourage­ ment throughout the project, and particularly to our commissioning editor Susannah Trefgarne and her predecessor Anna Hardman, who was closely involved in the early stages. Anthony Bebbington also thanks the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES) for providing such a supportive home during the preparation of this book. Finally, inspiration has come from often close and long-standing ties with particular NGOs and NGO x CAN NGOs MAKE A DIFFERENCE? networks as well as more academic sources. In particular, the editorial thinking underlying the book benefited immensely from the contributions of and our discussions with conference participants. This book is dedicated to our children - Anna, Carmen, Michael, Rachel and Matthew - in the hope that the development that accompanies them through the remainder of their lives will be different from that which accompanies us today. AnthonyJ. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin PART 1 Critical Challenges 1 Introduction: Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin 'Not another Manchester book on NGOs!' sorne bookstore browsers will comment on spotting this texto The short response, of course, is 'Yes, another one.' The longer response is this introductory chapter. In it we argue why this is once again a good moment to take the pulse of the NGO world. This time, though, we take the pulse not merely as a health check, which was the spirit of the three Manchester conferences: in 1992 to check their fItness to go to scale (Edwards and Hulme, 1992); in 1994 to check their fItness in the face of increased societal scrutiny (Edwards and Hulme, 1995; Hulme and Edwards, 1997); and in 1999 to check their fItness in the face of globalization (e.g. Eade and Ligteringen, 20m; Edwards and Gaventa, 20m; Lewis and Wallace, 2000). Instead, participants in a conference in 2005 took the pulse of NGOs to see whether the patient was still alive. The conviction underlying the book is that NGOs are only NGOs in any politically meaningful sense of the term if they are offering alternatives to dominant models, practices and ideas about development. The question that the book addresses is whether - in the face of neoliberalism, the poverty agenda in aid, the new security agenda, institutional maturation (if not senescence), and the simple imperatives of organizational survival - NGOs continue to constitute alternatives. As the reader will see, the authors are far from certain about the health of the patient, though none of them is yet. ready to write the certifIcate dec1aring the death of alternatives and the irrelevance of NGOs (an ir­ relevance that would somewhat invert the scales of Edwards's polemic in 1989 that dec1ared development studies irrelevant to NGOs, the place where real development was being done: Edwards, 1989). There are serious doubts regarding how far NGOs in the North are able to do anything that 4 CAN NGOs MAKE A DIFFERENCE? is especially alternative to their host countries' bilateral aid programmes. There is a sense that their room for manoeuvre has been seriously con­ strained by the security agenda, increasing political disenchantment with NGOs, the constraints of a poverty impact agenda that will only fund activities with measurable impacts on some material dimension of poverty, and also a sense in which 'alternatives' have been swallowed whole within the newly
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