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Negotiating Knowledge: Evidence and experience in development NGOs

Negotiating Knowledge: Evidence and experience in development NGOs

Lata Narayanswarmy
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International NGOs are increasingly under pressure from governments and the public to demonstrate evidence of impact and positive results. This book critically examines how development NGOs working around the world create knowledge and evidence, and use it to satisfy donors, to improve their practices, and to further our understanding of poverty. It asks questions such as: does the evidence of community organizations count as much as higher-level organizations? Should southern NGOs be expected to disseminate pre-formed development ‘messages’? What do we mean by ‘evidence-based advocacy’?

The eight studies that form the core of Negotiating Knowledge span scholarly and practitioner research across Africa, Asia and Latin America. They tackle political issues that determine what forms of evidence and knowledge are given credence. They explore the power dynamics that shape the value placed on knowledge and learning in relationships within and between organizations.

Negotiating Knowledge urges NGOs to examine how they use knowledge in order to make it work better for themselves and for the people that they aim to assist. To do this well, they have to understand better what they mean by knowledge and evidence, revisit the value that they place on learning and knowledge, and invest in appropriate capacity and skills.

This book is essential reading for international NGO staff, policy makers, as well as those researching, studying and making policy in international development.
Are you maker, shaper, user or victim? Think again, as you absorb eight not-so-plain tales of knowledge, evidence and power in the shadowy jungle of NGOs and development, guided by helpful reflections from the book’s worldly-wise editors.’
James Copestake, Professor of International Development, University of Bath, UK

‘This book provides much-needed illumination on two key, but often poorly understood, concepts within the development sector: knowledge and evidence. Importantly, this book uses accessible examples of efforts by both national and international NGOs to improve their generation and use of knowledge. The fact that these case studies contain both positive and negative outcomes is particularly useful. The book also helpfully outlines some of the critical challenges for NGOs in this area of generating knowledge and evidence, such as low resourcing, and a tendency of NGOs only to communicate information which reflects positively on their work. Overall this book challenges NGOs to take a much more systematic approach in order to fulfil their goals for internal learning and policy influencing -- a welcome and important challenge.’
Sinead Walsh, Ambassador of Ireland to Sierra Leone and Liberia

‘In a world dominated by homogeneous strategies of global development, gathering the evidence for growing inequality, dispossession and ecological disaster is a political struggle. Knowledge democracy is critical for re-building democratic and inclusive societies. This book provides practical and systematic approaches to negotiating multiple perspectives on knowledge to support struggles for a more just and equal world.’
Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research & Social Responsibility in Higher Education

‘This is a super book, which could not be more timely for scholars and practitioners alike in its smart but accessible analysis of “knowledge” in international development. It draws on a wealth of experience and insight to make a series of powerful interventions in debates over the nature, value and politics of development knowledges.’
Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge
Language
English
Pages
234
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
July 14, 2016

Negotiating Knowledge: Evidence and experience in development NGOs

Lata Narayanswarmy
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
International NGOs are increasingly under pressure from governments and the public to demonstrate evidence of impact and positive results. This book critically examines how development NGOs working around the world create knowledge and evidence, and use it to satisfy donors, to improve their practices, and to further our understanding of poverty. It asks questions such as: does the evidence of community organizations count as much as higher-level organizations? Should southern NGOs be expected to disseminate pre-formed development ‘messages’? What do we mean by ‘evidence-based advocacy’?

The eight studies that form the core of Negotiating Knowledge span scholarly and practitioner research across Africa, Asia and Latin America. They tackle political issues that determine what forms of evidence and knowledge are given credence. They explore the power dynamics that shape the value placed on knowledge and learning in relationships within and between organizations.

Negotiating Knowledge urges NGOs to examine how they use knowledge in order to make it work better for themselves and for the people that they aim to assist. To do this well, they have to understand better what they mean by knowledge and evidence, revisit the value that they place on learning and knowledge, and invest in appropriate capacity and skills.

This book is essential reading for international NGO staff, policy makers, as well as those researching, studying and making policy in international development.
Are you maker, shaper, user or victim? Think again, as you absorb eight not-so-plain tales of knowledge, evidence and power in the shadowy jungle of NGOs and development, guided by helpful reflections from the book’s worldly-wise editors.’
James Copestake, Professor of International Development, University of Bath, UK

‘This book provides much-needed illumination on two key, but often poorly understood, concepts within the development sector: knowledge and evidence. Importantly, this book uses accessible examples of efforts by both national and international NGOs to improve their generation and use of knowledge. The fact that these case studies contain both positive and negative outcomes is particularly useful. The book also helpfully outlines some of the critical challenges for NGOs in this area of generating knowledge and evidence, such as low resourcing, and a tendency of NGOs only to communicate information which reflects positively on their work. Overall this book challenges NGOs to take a much more systematic approach in order to fulfil their goals for internal learning and policy influencing -- a welcome and important challenge.’
Sinead Walsh, Ambassador of Ireland to Sierra Leone and Liberia

‘In a world dominated by homogeneous strategies of global development, gathering the evidence for growing inequality, dispossession and ecological disaster is a political struggle. Knowledge democracy is critical for re-building democratic and inclusive societies. This book provides practical and systematic approaches to negotiating multiple perspectives on knowledge to support struggles for a more just and equal world.’
Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research & Social Responsibility in Higher Education

‘This is a super book, which could not be more timely for scholars and practitioners alike in its smart but accessible analysis of “knowledge” in international development. It draws on a wealth of experience and insight to make a series of powerful interventions in debates over the nature, value and politics of development knowledges.’
Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography, University of Cambridge
Language
English
Pages
234
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
July 14, 2016

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