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As USAID dies, many of Georgia's "vibrant" CSOs face extinction

Jaba Devdariani

GEOpolitics, issue 16 (2025), 6 pp.

"For decades, Georgia has been one of the largest per capita recipients of U.S. assistance. In 2012-2023, the years in which the Georgian Dream has been in power, total U.S. overseas development assistance (ODA) stands at USD 1 billion 920 mil lion, according to official data. Of course, the lion’ ... more

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Public Opinion Perspectives on Governance and Civil Society Organizations in Lebanon

Mirna Ghanem

Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2024), 47 pp.

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Expanding Our Understanding of Evidence for Meaningful Participation

Trimita Chakma, Georgia Booth, Ruby Johnson

Amsterdam: Porticus;Closer Than You Think Collective (2024), 60 pp.

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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects

Jane Farmer, Anthony McCosker, Kath Albury, Amir Aryani

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 127 pp.

"This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodolo ... more

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Digital Security and Human Rights Defenders Landscape: Recommendations for NHRIs in the Asia-Pacific

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2023), 22 pp.

"Governments in the Asia-Pacific region have responded to human rights defenders' (HRD’s) new online advocacy strategies, affecting their online advocacy through the use of legal and non-legal measures to harass them and impede their work. Against this backdrop, National Human Rights Institutions ... more

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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South

Margit van Wessel, Tiina Kontinen, Justice Nyigmah Bawole (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.

"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci ... more

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A Few Learnings from the COVID-19 Crisis and its Impacts on the Information Management Practices in the Aid Sector: Improving Information Through Inclusive Processes and Capacity Building

Agence Française de Développement (AFD) (2021), 11 pp.

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Handbuch Zivilgesellschaft

Rupert Graf Strachwitz, Eckhard Priller, Benjamin Triebe

Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2020), xi, 360 pp.

"In 10 Kapiteln werden traditionelle und neue Erscheinungsformen der Zivilgesellschaft einander gegenübergestellt. Als Folien dienen ein analytisches Bereichskonzept von Zivilgesellschaft, die Hirschmansche Einteilung in ‚loyal, exit, voice‘ und die im Maecenata Institut entwickelte Funktionsdi ... more

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The Instigatory Theory of NGO Communication: Strategic Communication in Civil Society Organizations

Evandro Oliveira

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2019), xxv, 262 pp.

"By understanding the ontogenesis of NGOs as civil society organizations from a historical-anthropological, communicational, sociological, economical and managerial perspective, Evandro Oliveira outlines the Instigatory Theory of NGO Communication (ITNC). This proposes the ontological principles, an ... more

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Tech for Good: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen digitaler Instrumente in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit von Nichtregierungsorganisationen

Berlin: Verband Entwicklungspolitik deutscher Nichtregierungsorganisationen (VENRO) (2019), 39 pp.

"Längst hat der digitale Wandel auch die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und die Humanitäre Hilfe verändert. Das Internet bietet die Chance, die Lebensbedingungen vieler Menschen durch Zugang zu Wissen und zu neuen Möglichkeiten der politischen und ökonomischen Teilhabe zu verbessern. Auch Nichtregi ... more

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Charitable Crowdfunding in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas?

Kellee S. Tsai, Qingyan Wang

China Quarterly, issue 240 (2019), pp. 936-966

"Social media in China has not only become a popular means of communication, but also expanded the interaction between the government and online citizens. Why have some charitable crowdfunding campaigns had agenda-setting influence on public policy, while others have had limited or no impact? Based ... more

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NGOs as Newsmakers: The Changing Landscape of International News

Matthew Powers

New York: Columbia University Press (2018), 224 pp.

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2018 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good;Public Interest Registry (2018), 27 pp.

"Throughout the 2000’s, NGOs experimented with promoting “Donate Now” buttons and online donation pages, and through a process of trial and error, learned a winning strategy that still works today. Specifically, NGOs that are successful at online fundraising have embraced a content strategy of ... more

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The Bottom-up Media Revolution: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Building Trust Between Communities and the Media

Laxmi Parthasarathy, Michael Gordon

Ashoka (2018), 29 pp.

"Ashoka is an organization that supports social entrepreneurs around the world and has the longest track record of doing so. It has identified and supported over 3,500 “Ashoka Fellows,” many of whom are in the media sector. Therefore, Ashoka sits on a treasure trove of data on transformative med ... more

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An Ethnographic Approach to Low-Income Youth's Engagement in Communication for Social Change

Leonardo Custódio

Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 113-129

"This article presents an ethnographic approach to how low-income Brazilians of impoverished urban areas have engaged in community journalism and media activism. Exploring empirical materials collected during a seven-year research process (2009-2016), the article has two main objectives. One is to a ... more

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2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good;Public Interest Registry (2017), 15 pp.

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A Survey Report on the Public Perception of the Role of Civil Society Organizations and the Media in Nepal

Unity Service Cooperation Nepal

USAID;FHI 360 (2017), 39 pp.

"The vast majority of survey respondents, irrespective of their gender and geographical location, recognized the importance of media, particularly electronic media. They acknowledged media role in keeping people informed, entertained and opinion formation. Although people heralded the media for focu ... more

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Taking Root: Human Rights and Public Opinion in the Global South

James Ron, Shannon Golden, David Crow, Archana Pandya

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), x, 255 pp.

"As international donors pour money into global human rights promotion, many governments—as well as scores of scholars and activists—fear a subtle, Western-led campaign for political, economic, and cultural domination. This book asks: What do publics in the global South think? Drawing on surveys ... more

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Search for Common Ground’s ‘Strengthening the Capacity of Civil Society to Contribute to Sustainable Governance in Liberia’: Final Evaluation Report

Heather Gilberds, Katherina Thomas

Search for Common Ground (2017), 58 pp.

"Overall, the program set out what it achieved to do—namely to strengthen the institutional capacity of civil society organizations to improve their credibility, visibility, effectiveness and sustainability. There is evidence that many partner CSOshave refined theirmission, developed a multi-year ... strategic plan, a communications plan, a gender policy and an HR policy. In addition, they are beginning to integrate new financial reporting and M&E structures. All of the partner CSOs have improved their sustainability byreceiving additional funds to continue their work, and many of them hav developed strategies to diversify their revenue generation, such as expanding their offices to rent out board rooms. A number of organizations are eager to pass their new knowledge onto others, with many training peer CSOs on what they learned through the Search program. Finally, the program was effective in improving their own confidence, with all of the partner CSOs expressing their appreciation of the program, and in particular the freedom they had to define their own priorities and objectives.A number of lessons emerged during the course of implementation that are relevant for Search’s future work in civil society strengthening, as well as for other organizations working in this sector: 1. The participatory benchmarking approach is useful to help organizations track improvments in their organziational capacity over time. However, there was a tendency for CSOs to overstate what was possible within a limited timeframe. As a result, benchmarks were not consistently met, and many of the capacity-related development were not fully institutionalized by the project end. 2. The integration of radio programs with other civil society organizing approaches—town hall meetings, workshops, and house to house outreach—is an effective way to improve awareness and engagement of citizens in governance reform issues on a mass scale. 3. Programs to improve the capacity and sustainability of CSOs, and to professionalize the sector, are crucial but often overlooked, in efforts to improve local governance in fragile and trasitional countries such as Liberia. 4. There is a need to continue efforts to link civil society actors together for cohesive action and to further improve the enabling environment for civil society in Liberia by providing opportunities for CSOs to develop strategic collaborations, improve organizational capacity development, and attract donor funds to support their work." (Conclusions) more

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2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good;Public Interest Registry (2016), 12 pp.

"[This] report is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their supporters and donors. Over the last two decades the NGO sector has embraced Internet technology, but at varying speeds based up ... more