Non-Governmental Public Action

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Programme

Director: Professor Jude Howell

Public action by and for disadvantaged people, undertaken by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other non-government actors, is increasingly significant at local and international levels. This research programme will develop existing theory, generate new empirical data and develop beneficial links between researchers and users. Projects will include international comparative work and transdisciplinary research.

NGPA Conference: Organising for Social Justice and Poverty Reduction

The final conference of the Non-Governmental Public Action Conference was held on the 14th and 15th of January 2009 in Westminster, London.
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Events

Book Launch: Egypt- the Moment of Change
Editors: Rahab El-Mahdi and Philip Marfleet
Contributors: Anne Alexander and Ray Bush
7-9 pm 8th October
School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS)
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NGPA and Westminster

John Micklewright, lead researcher on the NGPA project Giving for Development, was asked to give evidence to the International Development Select Committee on how the British public gives to charity for international development.

Project website

'Global War on Terror': non-governmental public action and aid
Community Connections Helping Cross Community Groups Self-Evaluate. This website was established as a result of the NGPA project Measuring Bridge Building: the evaluation of small scale reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland

New Publications

'Counter-Terrorism, Aid and Civil Society Before and After the War on Terror' by Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind published by Palgrave Macmillan.
'Co-operatives and poverty reduction: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Tanzania'. by Johnston Birchall and Richard Simmons. Published by Co-operative College. www.internationaldevelopment.coop
Research Paper 36
The Snail and the Good Government. A critique of 'civil society' by the Zapatista movement, Mexico
Ana C Dinerstein
NCVO/NGPA Fourth Seminar Report Counter-terrorism and civil society: what are the effects of he 'War on Terror' and counter-terrorism measures on civil society?

International and Practitioner Fellowship Publications

A Land of our Own: conversations with Dalit members of constituent assembly by Suvash Darnal, Jagaran Medical Centre translated by Prawin Adhikari (1,226KB pdf)
International NGOs and Southern Advocacy: Case studies of two Oxfam campaigns in South Asia (1.3MB: pdf)
Jeff Atkinson, Oxfam
Participatory Budgeting in the UK: an evaluation from a practitioner perspective (250kb: pdf) by Kezia Lavan
Tsunami in a Time of War: Aid, Activism and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka and Aceh by Malathi de Alwes, ed. Eva Lotta Hedman published by International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo

Contents

Introduction

Who's who

Research Projects and Research Findings

Fellowships

News and Related News

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Quick links

Centre for Civil Society
'Global War on Terror': non-governmental public action and aid
Map showing geographical distribution of research projects
Programme Specification (PDF)
Programme Leaflet (PDF)
Password protected documents for NGPA researchers.
Third Sector Research Centre
- new centre hosted at the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton funded by ESRC, Cabinet Office and Barrow Cadbury Trust
www.tsrc.ac.uk
Reports on NCVO/NGPA Cross Border Seminar series
Research briefings

Address and contacts

Non-Governmental Public Action Programme
c/o Centre for Civil Society
London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street,
London WC2A 2AE

Programme Administrator: Jane Schiemann

Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7205
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6039
Email: i.j.schiemann@lse.ac.uk

To contact NGPA and ESRC staff, please see: Who's who page.

Site updated: 02 November 2009