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Author Brinkman, Inge.

Title Bricks, mortar and capacity building : a socio-cultural history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation / by Inge Brinkman ; in cooperation with Anne-Lot Hoek.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Afrika-studiecentrum series ; v. 18
Afrika-Studiecentrum series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Merchants and ministers: understanding SNV's background -- SNV's start: bricks, mortar and the transfer of knowledge (1963-1972) -- The years of radical commitment: democratisation and secularisation (1973-1984) -- Expertise expected: the professionalisation of SNV (1985-1994) -- Building capacity: SNV at the millennium (1995-2005) -- Final remarks.
Summary The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now. Through SNV's history, an analysis emerges of the role of the Netherlands in development cooperation and the attitudes of Dutch society towards it over the Last fifty years as well as the changing ideas, practices and policies development work more generally. The views and expectations of (former) SNV staff and those of local participants who were ultimately to benefit from the development activities were the focus of this historical research. This has resulted in a socio-cultural history 'from below' rather than a dry description of the organisation's administrative changes and formal bureaucratic Structures. --Book Jacket.
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Subject SNV (Organization) -- History.
SNV (Organization)
History.
Nonprofit organizations -- Netherlands -- History.
Nonprofit organizations.
Netherlands.
International agencies -- Netherlands -- History.
International agencies.
Economic assistance, Dutch -- Developing countries.
Economic assistance, Dutch.
Developing countries.
Technical assistance, Dutch -- Developing countries.
Technical assistance, Dutch.
Economic development -- Developing countries.
Economic development.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Added Author Hoek, Anne-Lot.
Other Form: Print version: Brinkman, Inge. Bricks, mortar and capacity building. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2010 9789004187412 (DLC) 2010022614 (OCoLC)614983416
ISBN 9789004187641 (electronic book)
9004187642 (electronic book)
9789004187412 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9004187413 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786612787157