For papers on each casestudy country click on the links below: South Africa Uganda United Kingdom Highlights [Don't have yet] Current procedures and policies dominating aid: building strong relationships and enabling NGOs meet their stated aims? A summary report on research carried out in Uganda, 2000-2004. John De Coninck The current procedures and policies dominating the disbursement of aid: are they building strong relationships and enabling NGOs to meet their stated aims? A report on research carried out in Uganda between 2000-2004: Chapter 1: Introduction to the research: the team, the methodology, and frameworks of analysis (Tina Wallace) Chapter 2: The context for the research Martin Kaleeba, Rashid Sesay and Tina Wallace Chapter 3: Critical funding issues arising from interviews with a range of NGOs in Uganda: analysis of first round interviews (Tina Wallace and Martin Kaleeba) Chapter 4: Donor conditionalities: analysis of first round interviews (Martin Kaleeba and Tina Wallace with inputs from Patrick Mulindwa) Chapter 5: Reflections on some critical concepts dominating development discourse in Uganda: some contextual notes Rosemary Adong, CDRN Chapter 6: Three case studies exploring the impact of Western management tools on SNGOs (Rosemary Adong, B. Mboizi, S. Basemera, A. Kasingye, A. Nanafuka (CDRN). Chapter 7: The untold story: competing cultures in development partnerships. The UPPAP partnership; a new way of working in development? (John de Coninck and Meenu Vadera) Chapter 8: Case study of a partnership between an international NGO and two local NGOs Martin Kaleeba Chapter 9: Gender Networking and advocacy work in Uganda: controlling the agenda and strategies of resistance (Nabacwa Mary Ssonko Chapter 10. Case studies of working north-south and the range of relationships identified Tina Wallace with inputs from Rajiv Khandawal Chapter 11: The aid chain reaches the ground. Tina Wallace and Juliet Kiguli Annex 1. The research team Annex 2. The sample NGOs in Uganda Bibliography for the Uganda study Highlights [need to get final version from Tina] An investigation into the reality behind NGO rhetoric of downward accountability. Tina Wallace & Jennifer Chapman forthcoming in Lucy Earle Ed. 'Creativity and Constraint: Grassroots Monitoring and Evaluation and the International Aid Arena'. Trends in UK NGOs: a research note, Tina Wallace published in Development in Practice 2003 NGO Dilemmas -Trojan horses for global neoliberalism? Tina Wallace. "from Socialist Register www.yorku.ca/socreg; by permission of Merlin Press" Funding conditionalities and development? Tina Wallace and Jennifer Chapman, BOND networker October 2001 Funding Trends in the UK, BOND Networker April 2004 (Issue 36) Tina Wallace and Jennifer Chapman The current landscape of UK NGO development management: what shapes it, how is it done and what are the implications of dominant practice? Tina Wallace and Jennifer Chapman Chapter 1: Introduction to the Research (including the methodology) Chapter 2: The wider context and concepts shaping the work of donors and NGOs, and different ways of understanding development practice Chapter 3: Donors and the aid flow Chapter 4. Changes in the policies and procedures of aid management in the UK NGO sector. Chapter 5 The tools dominating aid management, and their implications for development practice Chapter 6: How these issues work out in practice Chapter 7: Capacity building- the challenges and some issues for addressing these. David Harding and Jennifer Chapman Chapter 8. Partnership: reflections on the research Bibliography Is the way aid is Disbursed through NGOs promoting a Development Practice that Addresses Chronic Poverty Well? An overview of an on-going Research Project. Presentation at STAYING POOR: CHRONIC POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY, International Conference, IDPM, University of Manchester, 7 to 9 April 2003 Tina Wallace and Jennifer Chapman http://idpm.man.ac.uk/cprc/Conference/conferencepapers.htm Overview of funding trends in UK and donor-UK NGOs relations; some headline findings and implications for UK NGOs. Overheads from seminar - UK Perspectives on the Management of NGO Aid: Changes in Practice and Implications for Development, 24th March 2004, Nuffield, London. Jennifer Chapman Highlights: Evaluations, strategic planning and log-frames - donor-imposed straitjackets on local NGOs? Lisa Bornstein www.id21.org Systems of accountability, webs of deceit? South African NGOs' experience with monitoring and evaluation. Paper prepared for the 5th annual ISTR International conference, Toronto, 11-14 July 2004 waiting for copy [not sent yet] Selections from Negotiating aid: UK funders, NGOs and South African development. A research report by Lisa Bornstein, Isaivani Hyman, and Annsilla Nyar South African NGOs in Transition. Research and initial writing by Lisa Bornstein and Terence Smith Tracking NGO Practices through Job Advertisements Researched and prepared by: Catherine Ogunmefun, Isaivani Hyman and Lisa Bornstein A comparative study will be coming out in book form during 2005 which will trace funding from the official donors right down to the local NGOs and cut across the three country casestudies. an ichameleon production