Bill Sterland, Praxis Paper 9, June 2006.
This paper investigates the approaches and methods applied to NGO capacity building in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo during parallel and ongoing experiences of internationally determined post-conflict social, political and economic rehabilitation and transition. Capacity building in both settings is a new term, having arrived with equally novel concepts such as the ‘NGO’, ‘civil society’, ‘democracy’ and ‘good governance’ as part of a broader development discourse driving efforts to re-establish social cohesion and fashion new states according to Western-style liberal democracy. In both contexts, NGO performance and relevance will also be dependent on the civil society sector’s ability to improve internal cohesion, and also on cross-sector dialogue, cooperation and coordination.
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