Resources

  As development organisations, we are all finding ourselves placing a greater emphasis on measuring for results, on looking for […]

Kyrgyzstan was among the first post-Soviet countries to take steps towards public administration and decentralisation reform. Work began during the […]

This issue of ONTRAC explores issues around private donors’ work in development. Foundations and new private donors are now significant actors in development – in terms of both the funds they provide and also their influence on approaches to development and the way that official aid agencies operate and think.

Against the backdrop of popular protests across the Middle East and North Africa region during the Spring of 2011, this […]

This paper begins with a familiar story – the story of the dramatic rise of ‘diaspora’ in international development debates. […]

This book uses case studies from around the world which show a clear framework for understanding the nature and role of […]

Civil society organisations (CSOs) throughout the world are making efforts to enhance organisational and staff capacity with regard to gender […]

This issue of ONTRAC looks at capacity building for advocacy. Following Chris Stalker’s overview of the huge shift towards placing […]

This Praxis Paper looks at current practice, experiences and theory in advocacy capacity building. The paper’s findings are primarily directed at civil society support organisations globally, but the insights are relevant to CSOs, donors, research institutions and individuals from a variety of backgrounds.

In this issue of ONTRAC Rick James presents an overview of faith’s intense, but uneasy, relationship with development. Donors are […]

This paper provides a short update on issues around the impacts of the use of counter terrorism measures (CTMs) and […]

There is no single, universally accepted definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), but most definitions from public, private and civil […]