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Abstract title: Riding high or nosediving: development NGOs in the new millennium
Author: Rajesh Tandon
Issue: Volume 10, No 3 and 4 (double anniversary issue) 2000

This paper attempts to draw some lessons from the experience of development NGOs throughout the world over the last five decades. It starts by describing the meaning of alternative development paradigm as practised by NGOs. It then examines some of the major socio-political changes that have occurred in recent years, and their impact on development NGOs. Finally, it outlines some key dilemmas facing development NGOs, and their potential implications for their future roles and contributions at the start of the new millennium.

This article also appears in the Development in Practice Reader Debating Development

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