These engaging case studies challenge assumptions about the relationship among the state, NGOs, and local communities in Africa...a most welcome addition to the field of development studies. -

• Introduction by Ondine Barrow & Michael Jennings - A glossary for new Samaritans by Philip Winter - Humanitarian politics in collapsed states: a critical appraisal of the role of international NGOs in the Somali crisis by Alexandros Yanis - International responses to famine in Ethiopia, 1983-5: Christian Aid & a political economy framework for action by Ondine Barrow - Creating alternatives: refugee relief & local development in western Tanzania by Beth Elise Whitaker - 'Trying to hold things together?': international NGOs caught up in an emergency in north western Uganda, 1996-7 by Mark Leopold - 'Development is very political in Tanzania': Oxfam and the Chunya integrated development programme, 1972-6 by Michael Jennings - Donors, NGOs & the state: governance & 'civil society' in Tanzania by Tim Kelsall - Drawing a line between autonomy & governance: the state, civil society & NGOs in Ethiopia by John Campbell - Whose medicine counts? Healers, health & WHO in Kenya by Kirstin Johnson - Organizational & institutional learning in the humanitarian sector by Koenraad van Brabant - Select bibliography

These engaging case studies challenge assumptions about the relationship among the state, NGOs, and local communities in Africa...a most welcome addition to the field of development studies. -

• Introduction by Ondine Barrow & Michael Jennings - A glossary for new Samaritans by Philip Winter - Humanitarian politics in collapsed states: a critical appraisal of the role of international NGOs in the Somali crisis by Alexandros Yanis - International responses to famine in Ethiopia, 1983-5: Christian Aid & a political economy framework for action by Ondine Barrow - Creating alternatives: refugee relief & local development in western Tanzania by Beth Elise Whitaker - 'Trying to hold things together?': international NGOs caught up in an emergency in north western Uganda, 1996-7 by Mark Leopold - 'Development is very political in Tanzania': Oxfam and the Chunya integrated development programme, 1972-6 by Michael Jennings - Donors, NGOs & the state: governance & 'civil society' in Tanzania by Tim Kelsall - Drawing a line between autonomy & governance: the state, civil society & NGOs in Ethiopia by John Campbell - Whose medicine counts? Healers, health & WHO in Kenya by Kirstin Johnson - Organizational & institutional learning in the humanitarian sector by Koenraad van Brabant - Select bibliography

These engaging case studies challenge assumptions about the relationship among the state, NGOs, and local communities in Africa...a most welcome addition to the field of development studies. -

• Introduction by Ondine Barrow & Michael Jennings - A glossary for new Samaritans by Philip Winter - Humanitarian politics in collapsed states: a critical appraisal of the role of international NGOs in the Somali crisis by Alexandros Yanis - International responses to famine in Ethiopia, 1983-5: Christian Aid & a political economy framework for action by Ondine Barrow - Creating alternatives: refugee relief & local development in western Tanzania by Beth Elise Whitaker - 'Trying to hold things together?': international NGOs caught up in an emergency in north western Uganda, 1996-7 by Mark Leopold - 'Development is very political in Tanzania': Oxfam and the Chunya integrated development programme, 1972-6 by Michael Jennings - Donors, NGOs & the state: governance & 'civil society' in Tanzania by Tim Kelsall - Drawing a line between autonomy & governance: the state, civil society & NGOs in Ethiopia by John Campbell - Whose medicine counts? Healers, health & WHO in Kenya by Kirstin Johnson - Organizational & institutional learning in the humanitarian sector by Koenraad van Brabant - Select bibliography