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Vices and virtues in capacity development

Why do international NGOs not implement good practice in capacity development? I was in an INTRAC meeting of large INGO families and bilateral donors recently when someone once again posed this questi...

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    The use of consultants in development

    As all good bloggers should do, I need to declare an interest here because at INTRAC we do a great deal of work on a consultancy basis. Indeed, we do more than we used to as a proportion of our work. ...

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      Eight challenges for civil society in 2013

      In no particular order, here are eight challenges for civil society for you to think about.1) The reversal of 20 years of increased funding for development NGOs from official donors. There will be exc...

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        Post-2015 debates: in search of humanist production

        Post-2015 debates: in search of humanist productionOn 2 November 2012, I observed a Dialogue with Civil Society, an opportunity for civil society organisations to raise issues before members of the Hi...

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          A different world? Civil society challenges in a time of economic change

          Reading an article recently on the large numbers of homeless and jobless people in Greece reinforced for me the blurring distinctions between developed and developing nations. Coupled with massive yo...

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