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  There has been increasing concern to understand the realities that affect how international and local NGOs operate in many […]

In 2011, the world watched amazed as people across the Arab world stood up to demand change. Beginning with a […]

Establishing a national coordinating body or umbrella organisation for non-profit organisations isn’t an easy task. It involves bringing together many […]

This special issue of Development in Practice (Volume 23, Number 5, October 2013) has grown from the sense that important changes in […]

This issue of ONTRAC looks at enabling space for civil society activity. Following an overview, our four contributors each offer […]

This paper gives an overview of the NGO sector in Syria. It was originally written in 2010 as an internal […]

This special double issue of ONTRAC is to celebrate both the fiftieth issue of our newsletter, and also the twentieth […]

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

This paper provides an overview of the current discussion on fragile and failed states from the perspective of an NGO. […]

This ONTRAC issue re-examines the concept and role of civil society, focusing on its significance in relation to current debates and practice in development.

Conflict, crisis and instability form part of a chain of the dilemmas confronting development in much of the Arab world. […]

This paper first sketches the historical background and the economic, social and political context in which civil society operates in […]