Brian Pratt

Executive Director

Brian is one of the founding members of INTRAC and at present is the Executive Director.

Brian has worked in development since 1973, initially at the University of Cambridge and in Peru on the Political Economy of Peru. Brian was also a Field Director for OXFAM in the Andean Countries (1977-82), before returning to the UK to develop OXFAM programmes and Departments of Research, Evaluation, Development Policy and Information systems (1982-90). During this period he wrote the OXFAM Field Director's Handbook, was the founding editor of the Development in Practice journal and the Development Guidelines series of seven books.

Brian has worked in many countries as a consultant and researcher for NGOs, and multi- and bi-lateral agencies.

The primary focus of Brian's publications and consultancies is on strategic policy issues for NGOs and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E).

Brian completed his Ph.D at Cambridge University in 1980, after he graduated from University of Birmingham (B.Sc, Sc.) in 1972.

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

Founding Editor: Development in Practice, an OXFAM Journal, 1991

Series Editor: Development Guidelines, 7 titles, OXFAM, 1987-93

1984, From Relief to Development, ECOFORUM

1985, The Field Director's Handbook, An OXFAM Development Manual, (eds) Brian Pratt and Jo Boyden

1988, Income Generation, Chapter 7 of In the Shadow of the City, Community Health and the Urban Poor, (eds) T. Harpham, T. Lusty and P. Vaughan, OUP

1988, Donor-North Perspectives: Bridges, Myths and Challenges in Justice and the Aid Relationship, ICSW

1989, Urban Africa: Some NGO Experiences in Institutional Co-operation - Prospects for Urban Africa, GTZ, Frankfurt

1989, OXFAM: Development and Management in Public Administration, OXFAM, Vol.9

1989, OXFAM Education Programmes, in Norag NEWS

1990, Some Reflections on OXFAMS Experience in Rural Extension, IAC, Wageningen, May

1990, Part 1V, Guidelines for Interveners, in Income Generation Schemes for the Urban Poor. OXFAM

1990, Foundations and Changing Practices in Extension Review, CONVERGENCE, ICAE

1992, Financing Womens Enterprise, Royal Tropical Institute, Holland (English Editor)

1993, Institutional Development and NGOs in Africa, with Alan Fowler and Piers Campbell, NGO Management and Policy Series No.1, INTRAC

1993, Choosing Research Methods, Data Collection: A Guide for Field Workers with Dr. Peter Loizos, OXFAM

1994, Measuring the Process: Guidelines for Evaluating Social Development, with Peter Oakley and David Marsden, NGO Management and Policy Series No.3, INTRAC

1994, ‘A Survey of Research by UK NGOs’, with Adrian Stone, Occasional Papers Series OPS No.3, INTRAC

1994, ‘Multilateral Agencies and NGOs: a Position Paper’, with Adrian Stone, Occasional Papers Series OPS No.1, INTRAC

1998, Outcomes and Impact; Understanding Social Development, with Peter Oakley and Andrew Clayton, NGO Management and Policy Series No.6, INTRAC

1998, Direct Funding from a Southern Perspective: Strengthening civil society? (ed.), NGO Management and Policy Series No.8, INTRAC

1998, ‘Decentralised NGO Management’, with Sara Gibbs, Alan Fowler and Ian Smillie, Occasional Papers Series No.19, INTRAC

2002, United Nations Volunteers: Capacity Building and Voluntarism, UNV Bonn

2003, NGO Responses to Urban Poverty with Carol Sahley, NGO Management and Policy Series No.9, INTRAC

2003, (ed.) Changing Expectations? The Concept and Practice of Civil Society in International Development, NGO Management and Policy Series No.16, INTRAC