Table of Contents

Section 1 Framework of the research Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The changing context for state-NGO relations Section 2 Partnerships between state and NGOs: conflict and complexity Chapter 3 The case of Ghana Chapter 4 The case of India Section 3 Ways forward: overcoming conflict for the benefit of the poor? Chapter 5 Regulating NGOs Chapter 6 Personal networks and relations at the state-NGO interface Section 4 Conclusions Chapter 7 Conclusions Bibliography Index

About the Author

Fatima Alikhan (formerly a professor at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India) runs an NGO and is active in the NGO community, especially with children and in evaluations for Mahila Samakhya. She co-edited Empowering Women for Development: Experiences from Some Third World Countries and previously worked for UNDP. Peter Kyei is a lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He has worked with NGOs on their strategies of poverty alleviation in northern Ghana (on which he obtained his doctorate at the University of Durham, UK), and continues to work with NGOs in Kumasi and Accra. Emma Mawdsley is a lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK, and specialises in social movements and the environment in India. She has contributed articles to the journal Development and Change, and to Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh: European Perspectives. Gina Porter is a senior research fellow at Durham University, UK, currently working with NGOs on child mobility in Africa. Her publications include Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport and, in World Development: 'Living in a walking world: rural mobility and social equity issues in sub-Saharan Africa'. Saraswati Raju is a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; she has also worked with UNDP, UNIFEM, ILO and the Population Council. Her writings include an editorial in GeoForum: 'Production of Knowledge: Looking for "Theory" in "Familiar" Places?' and Atlas of Women and Men in India. Janet Townsend is a senior research investigator at the University of Newcastle, UK. She was awarded the Royal Geographic Society-IBG Edward Heath Medal for geographical research in gender and development. She is a co-author of Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty. Rameswari Varma (formerly University of Mysore, Mysore, India) is a member of the National Resource Group of Mahila Samakhya and serves on the boards of several NGOs. She also set up the Women's Studies Centre in the University of Mysore and has been vice president of the Indian Association of Women's Studies.