International Perspectives on Voluntary Action : Reshaping the Third Sector / David Lewis

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Foreword; Contributors; Introduction: The Parallel Universes of Third Sector Research and the Changing Context of Voluntary Action David Lewis; Part 1: Linkages and Learning; 1 Crossing the Great Divide: Building Links and Learning Between NGOs and Community-Based Organizations in North and South John Gaventa; 2 Social Learning in South-North Coalitions: Constructing Knowledge Systems Across Social Chasms L David Brown. 3 The Third World's Third Sector in Comparative Perspective Lester M Salamon and Helmut AnheierPart 2: Contrasts and Complementarities; 4 Voluntary Sector Governance --
Problems in Practice and Theory in the United Kingdom and North America Margaret Harris; 5 NGO Governing Bodies and Beyond: A Southern Perspective on Third Sector Governance Issues Qadeer Baig; 6 Building NGO Legitimacy in Bangladesh: The Contested Domain Syed Hashemi and Mirza Hassan; 7 The Trouble with Values Rob Paton; 8 Citizen Organizations as Policy Entrepreneurs Adil Najam. 9 Influencing Policy: A UK Voluntary Sector Perspective Marilyn Taylor10 Evaluation and the Voluntary (Nonprofit) Sector: Emerging Issues Jeremy Kendall and Martin Knapp; 11 Evaluating NGO Development Interventions Roger C Riddell; 12 Advocacy and Third Sector Organizations: A Composite Perspective Alan Fowler; 13 Legitimacy and Values in NGOs and Voluntary Organizations: Some Sceptical Thoughts Michael Edwards; Postscript: Reshaping the Third Sector David Lewis; Index.

This text presents a perspective on the third sector. Rather than considering non-governmental development organizations and voluntary agencies separately, it explores the similarities, differences and growing connections between them in both northern and southern contexts. Authors in the field consider the differences in scale and priority that exist between different types of third sector organizations in different settings, as well as the common challenges of accountability, legitimacy, effectiveness and governance. Models of learning and communication, including southern ideas such as micr.