Sheelagh Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheelagh Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheelagh |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sussex County Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Valuing adaptive programming
Recent decades have seen a growth in theoretical frameworks focusing on systems, context and the dynamic interplay of multiple variables, stimulating interest in complementary research and programme evaluation methods. With resilience theory now emphasising the complex and dynamic nature of resilience capacities, processes and outcomes, resilience programming stands to benefit from approaches such as design-based research and realist research/eva…
Corporate governance for NGOs
Official aid funding for the development NGO sector grew fast in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These halcyon days are over. Thinkers within the NGO community are concerned with how to adapt to the end of the funding boom, and to correct its adverse effects. However, in spite of many calls to reorganize, re-think, and professionalize, one major set of issues has been largely ignored: the scope for introducing collective self-regulation of the or…
Happy ever after in the marketplace
This following declaration, about NGOs and civil society, is typical of the hallowed tones used to discuss both. This article sets out to examine what I have called the ‘NGO phenomenon’ which has arisen in the last decade. It is not a critique of NGOs per se, but a critique of the way in which development policy has focused on NGOs, to the extent that expectations of NGO performance are unrealistically high and exclude other options for developme…
Working with a radical agenda the Musasa project, Zimbabwe
The Musasa Project, a Zimbabwean NGO, was set up in 1988 to deal with the problem of violence against women. This article looks at how and why the Musasa Project has adopted an increasingly radical agenda for cultural change in Zimbabwe: an agenda which challenges existing values, and represents an alternative in its own society
Women Organizing Women -‘Doing it Backwards and in High Heels’
I do the same as Fred Astaire, only backwards and in high
Happy ever after in the marketplace
This following declaration, about NGOs and civil society, is typical of the hallowed tones used to discuss both. This article sets out to examine what I have called the ‘NGO phenomenon’ which has arisen in the last decade. It is not a critique of NGOs per se, but a critique of the way in which development policy has focused on NGOs, to the extent that expectations of NGO performance are unrealistically high and exclude other options for developme…
Corporate governance for NGOs
Official aid funding for the development NGO sector grew fast in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These halcyon days are over. Thinkers within the NGO community are concerned with how to adapt to the end of the funding boom, and to correct its adverse effects. However, in spite of many calls to reorganize, re-think, and professionalize, one major set of issues has been largely ignored: the scope for introducing collective self-regulation of the or…
Women Organizing Women -‘Doing it Backwards and in High Heels’
I do the same as Fred Astaire, only backwards and in high
Working with a radical agenda the Musasa project, Zimbabwe
The Musasa Project, a Zimbabwean NGO, was set up in 1988 to deal with the problem of violence against women. This article looks at how and why the Musasa Project has adopted an increasingly radical agenda for cultural change in Zimbabwe: an agenda which challenges existing values, and represents an alternative in its own society
Women Organizing Women -‘Doing it Backwards and in High Heels’
I do the same as Fred Astaire, only backwards and in high
Happy ever after in the marketplace
This following declaration, about NGOs and civil society, is typical of the hallowed tones used to discuss both. This article sets out to examine what I have called the ‘NGO phenomenon’ which has arisen in the last decade. It is not a critique of NGOs per se, but a critique of the way in which development policy has focused on NGOs, to the extent that expectations of NGO performance are unrealistically high and exclude other options for developme…
Corporate governance for NGOs
Official aid funding for the development NGO sector grew fast in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These halcyon days are over. Thinkers within the NGO community are concerned with how to adapt to the end of the funding boom, and to correct its adverse effects. However, in spite of many calls to reorganize, re-think, and professionalize, one major set of issues has been largely ignored: the scope for introducing collective self-regulation of the or…
Valuing adaptive programming
Recent decades have seen a growth in theoretical frameworks focusing on systems, context and the dynamic interplay of multiple variables, stimulating interest in complementary research and programme evaluation methods. With resilience theory now emphasising the complex and dynamic nature of resilience capacities, processes and outcomes, resilience programming stands to benefit from approaches such as design-based research and realist research/eva…
Political science (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (2 works)