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NGOs and the Institutional Development of Membership Organisations: The Case of the Quilon Fishermen Welfare Society

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Recent shifts in NGO and donor priorities make it important to understand how NGOs promote membership organisations. As a means of exploring this issue, this paper uses the example of the largely successful NGO attempts to help South Indian fishermen organise in response to technical change.

Making Less Last Longer: Informal Safety Nets in Malawi

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Poor households in sub-Saharan Africa are of necessity adjusting to a bewildering array of radical changes in the policy environment within which they struggle to construct viable livelihoods.

Famine in the Sudan: Causes, Preparedness and Response. A Political, Social and Economic Analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal Famine

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper analyses the causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economical and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems.

Horticulture Commodity Chains: The Impact on the UK Market of the African Fresh Vegetable Industry

Published by: IDS

Production of fresh vegetables for export has grown rapidly in a number of countries in sub-Saharan African over the past decade. The...

The Emergence of Chinese Civil Society and its Significance to Governance

Anti-Poverty Programs

Civil Society and Governability in Mexico

Participatory Budgeting