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  • Giving to Help, Helping to Give

    The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy

    by Tade Akin Aina, Tade Akin Aina, Tade Akin Aina, Bhekinkosi Moyo, Mohammed A. Bakari, Bertha Chiroro, Kwaku Asante Darko, Marwa El Daly0, Alan Fowler1, Ibrahima Hathie2, Jenny Hodgson3, Andrew Kingman4, Christa L. Kuljian5, Halima Mahomed6, Robert Muponde7, James Muzondidya8, Connie Ngondi-Houghton9, Kayode Samuel0, Fondo Sikod1, Mohamadou Sy2, Gérard Tchouassi3, Susan Wilkinson-Maposa4, Saïda Yahya-Othman5 ...
    The past decade has seen a flowering of philanthropic activities across many parts of Africa. Unlike before, this flowering has the distinct character of African agency, energy and engagement. Philanthropy is no longer about narratives of passive, poor and miserable Africans receiving help from rich, fortunate and often Western outsiders. The emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • NGO Management

    The Earthscan Companion

    Edited by Alan Fowler, Chiku Malunga ...
    The task environment of NGOs is changing rapidly and significantly, making new demands on their management and leadership. This Companion discusses the complexities involved. It illustrates how NGOs can maintain performance and remain agile amidst increasing uncertainties. These factors include the position of NGOs in civil society, their involvement in governance and coping with the effects of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Virtuous Spiral

    A Guide to Sustainability for NGOs in International Development

    Edited by Alan Fowler ...
    'The Virtuous Spiral is without doubt a most welcome addition to the body of knowledge that will continue to be highly valued in the NGO sector.'Ezra Limiri Mbogori, Director, Mwelekeo wa NGO (MWENGO), Harare'Fowler demonstrates how development NGOs can engage in a virtuous spiral of performance-based learning that regenerates public trust. This is a timely book, dealing squarely with the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery

    by Alan Fowler ...
    Despite two decades of investment in project management as many as 80 per cent of business change and IT projects continue to rack up cost overruns and fail to deliver their expected benefits. Business people who must have more certainty in their project investments will find this book refreshing. It contains commonsense but groundbreaking techniques that deal with just this challenge. The authors ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950

    A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century

    by Alan Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. The cotton industry was one of the major motors that powered Britain's industrial development from the mid-eighteenth century, contributing in no small way to the revolution that was to transform Europe over the next hundred years. The combination of technological developments, colonial exploits and social transformation that all came together in the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Striking a Balance

    A Guide to Enhancing the Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Development

    Edited by Alan Fowler ...
    At a time of rapid global change, development NGOs are having to scale up their impact, diversify their activities, respond to long-term crises and improve their performance on all fronts. Striking a Balance offers both analysis and a practical guide to how NGDOs can fulfil these demanding expectations.Written for all those involved with NGDO work, the book describes the objectives of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Capacity Development in Practice

    by Jan Ubels, Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo, Alan Fowler ...
    The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals.Practical illustrations draw ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Book 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    by Nicholas Timmins ...
    A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness.These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • E-Government in Canada

    Transformation for the Digital Age

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing more customer-centric delivery via integration and coordination across departments and agencies. Yet, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

    The Irish Famine 1845-52

    by Christime Kinealy ...
    The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century.Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus