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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.

Much has been written on building the capacity of community based organisations (CBOs) to make them more effective and sustainable. […]

Fear of the financial cost often prevents organisations taking proactive steps to address HIV and AIDS in the workplace. Yet many responses do not require much investment. This paper describes four case studies of such low cost responses.

Pressures such as the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the UK Charity Commission now requiring NGOs to report against […]

Theory of Change is nothing new. It is not just a donor fad or yet another hoop to jump through. […]

Islamic FBOs are not well understood. Until recently they have been largely ignored in the development discourse. But they are […]

Church-based development organisations are distinct from secular NGOs. They have particular organisational features. These are the source of their potential […]

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 […]

This paper synthesises the findings from a six-country research project looking at the workplace responses to HIV of 50 international agencies – bilateral, multilateral and NGOs – working in India, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Ghana.

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