Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards is a distinguished senior fellow at Demos in New York and an honorary senior fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University. He is a regular commentator on NGOs and international development. His latest book is 'Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World' (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010).
The NGO community agrees that the foreign aid frame is no longer a viable option, even if that means that NGOs have to evolve into something else. The question is, should today’s NGO by retired, replaced or rejuvenated?
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13 March, 2012
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What is the right thing to do when you reach sixty? This is a question that many NGOs, which were founded in the burst of internationalism that followed the end of World War II, are asking themselves today as they reach late middle age. Oxfam celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2002 and CARE in 2005, while Hivos will reach this milestone in 2028 and ActionAid three years after that.
access_time 4 - 6 min
3 December, 2011
label_outline Development Policy
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