The Charitable Impulse
NGOs and Development in East and North East Africa
Edited by Ondine Barrow ,  Michael Jennings
Hardback: 978 1 56549 138 0
Price: $27.50  

Publisher: Kumarian Press
January 2002 , 288 pp., 6" x 9"
* Uses case studies in East and Northeast Africa to explore NGO roles
* Puts NGOs and the relief and development industry in historical context

This welcome addition to the NGO debate investigates how development agencies are adapting to current changes in the NGO community, specifically the growth in complex emergencies. The authors use pertinent case studies, focusing on both development activity and disaster relief, to illustrate their analysis of this change.

The book delves into issues such as: NGOs as a key force in development, their role in promoting democracy and human rights, and their increasing participation in conflict management. This cogent text, with its emphasis on actual practice, is appropriate for students of international development, as well as NGO practitioners.

Table of Contents:
1) Introduction --Ondine Barrow and Michael Jennings; 2) A Glossary for New Samaritans --Philip Winter; 3) Humanitarian Politics in Collapsed States: A critical appraisal of the Role of International NGOs in the Somali Crisis --Alexandros Yannis; 4) nternational Responses to Famine in Ethiopia 1983-85: Christian Aid and a Political Economy Framework for Action --Ondine Barrow; 5) Creating Alternatives: Refugee Relief and Local Development in Western Tanzania --Beth Elise Whitaker; 6) 'Trying to Hold Things Together?':International NGOs Caught Up in an Emergency in Northwestern Uganda, 1996-97 --Mark Leopold; 7) 'Development is Very Political in Tanzania': Oxfam and the Chuny Integrated Development Programme, 1972-76 --Michael Jennings; 8) Donors, NGOs and the State: Governance and' Civil Society' in Tanzania -- Tim Kelsall; 9) Drawing a Line Between Autonomy and Governance:The State, Civil Society and NGOs in Ethiopia -- John Campbell; 10) Whose Medicine Counts? Healers, Health and WHO in Kenya --Kirstin Johnson; 11) Organizational and Institutional Learning in the Humanitarian Sector --Koenraad van Brabant


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