Ngo Responses to Urban Poverty: Service Providers or Partners in Planning?

by Brian Pratt and Caroline Sahley

If urban development is to move forward in a pro-poor manner, there will have to be far greater investment in NGOs, to enable them to work with and on behalf of the poor. If this is not done, then there is a danger that they will remain, in some cases, simply providers of welfare services or involved in isolated small-scale initiatives with little wider impact. Detailed case studies of urban NGOs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Peru and South Africa...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897748477
• ISBN13: 9781897748473
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Intrac
• Length: 144 Pages