European Development Aid and NGOs: Changing Notions of Civil Society in "North" and "South"

This international conference is a joint cooperation between the LSE Centre for Civil Society and the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence under the 6th EU Framework Programme.
13-14 March 2008
Goodenough College, London WC1

Plenary Speakers

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• Putting Civil Society in its Place
  Neera Chandhoke, professor in the department of political science at Delhi University
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• Civil and Political Society in the South
  Partha Chatterjee
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• Civil Society and Social Transformation: beyond “North-South” thinking
  Michael Edwards, Ford Foundation, New York
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• Which South are we talking about?
  Dorothea Hilhorst, professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction at Wageningen University
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Presenters

These are pre-conference drafts, and so not for citation or distribution.

• “Good governance” and “Participation”. Useful instruments in poverty alleviation?
  Vibeke Andersson, assistant professor, Ph.D. Development Studies, Aalborg University.
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• The establishment of Oxfam India
  Sam Bickersteth, Oxfam GB's Head of Policy and Biranchi Upadhyaya, Oxfam GB Country Programme Manager for India
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• Understanding the NORTH-SOUTH Divide for Collective Representation and its Impact on Palestinian Ground
  Dr. Benoit Challand, Marie Curie Fellow, Dept. History and Civilization, European University Institute
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  Unfortunately, Dr Benoit Challand will be unable to attend the conference.
   
• European development NGOs in a challenging atmosphere: the case of gender equality
  Petra Debusscher, PhD student, Ghent University
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• Changing contexts for aid: What implications for development NGOs in rich countries?
  Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Project Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International
  Studies
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• Bypassing the state - NGOs as ‘proxy’ politics: the case of an urban neighbourhood in Kenya
  Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Roskilde University
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• Promoting Participatory Development in the PR China. Opening Windows For State and Non-State Actors in Sino-German Development Cooperation
  Andreas Fulda, Lecturer, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham
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• “Partnership” between Northern NGOs and Vietnamese Counterpart Organisations,
  Minna Hakkarainen, Senior Researcher, Institute for Human Rights, Abo-Akademi University, Finland and Hisayo Katsui, PhD student (East Asian Studies) at Helsinki University, Finland
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• ‘We will not take a single rupee from any donor organisation’: exploring the changing conceptions and practices of civil society in Nepal
  Celayne Heaton Shrestha, Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton
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• Civil Society, Security And Aid: Shifting Donor Perspectives
  Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind
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• A tale of two civil society organisations: micro-credit scheme and burial society in eastern Uganda
  Dr. Ben Jones, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics
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• Global Environmental Facility (GEF)
  Marie Karaisl, German Institute for Economic Research
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• Operationalization of participation and well-being
  Markus Ketola, LSE, Centre for Civil Society
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• Politics or Poverty: what determines the geographic choices of NGOs?
  Dirk-Jan Koch, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Radboud University Nijmegen
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• Advocacy and the policy process: UK NGOs, knowledge acquisition and identity
  David Lewis, Social Policy, LSE
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• Providing security in Congo:whose idea was that?
  Zoë Marriage
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• Breaking the mould? Transnational African associations, civil society and development
  Claire Mercer (University of Leicester), Ben Page (UCL), Martin Evans (University of Leicester)
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• Development NGOs, Semiclientelism and the State in the Philippines: From ‘cross-over’ to double-crossed
  Dr Ben Reid, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK
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• Better (Red)™ Than Dead? From ‘Band Aid’ To ‘Brand Aid’
  Lisa Ann Richey, Associate Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, and Stefano Pont, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies
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• Doing Aid Work: Experiences Of Inequality Within Aid Organizations
  Dr Silke Roth, Senior Lecturer, Division of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton
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