Table of contents

Development and patronage; African libraries and the consumption and production of knowledge; People's empowerment from the people's perspective; Building partnerships between Northern and Southern NGOs; The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot; Framing participation: development projects, professionals, and organisations; Sustainable development at the sharp end: field-worker agency in a participatory project; North-South relations and the question of aid; Collaboration with the South: agents of aid or solidarity?; Partners and beneficiaries: questioning donors; NGOs and social change: agents or facilitators?; On being evaluated: tensions and hopes; Sustainability is not about money!: the case of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry; The wrong path: the World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy for Mexico; Annotated bibliography