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Advocacy in the age of authoritarianism: adjustments of all sorts

Published on 1 January 2009

This paper examines the US government’s support for introducing advocacy amongst Egyptian NGOs, and the inherent tensions for donors backing a politicised form of development that clashes with their foreign policy.

In the Egyptian context, donor policy has deterred advocacy NGOs from engaging in more participatory forms of social action.

Authors

Mariz Tadros

Director (CREID)

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IDS
authors
Tadros, M.
journal
IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper, issue 337

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Egypt

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