A Book Review on the book, "Non-Governmental Organizations and Development"

By Melesse Zenebework

To Dr. Rasmus Karlsson

Environment and Sustainable Development Class

HUFS, 2013

Non – Governmental Organizations and Development, by David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji, New York, Routledge Taylor Francis Ltd, 2009, xv + 239 pp., index, $43.44 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-45430-8

David Lewis is professor of social policy and development at London School of Economics who specializes in development policy and management, with a particular interest in Non-Governmental Organizations and civil society, and whose work has mainly had a geographical focus on Bangladesh. He has also written on rural development, organizational issues in development agencies, and anthropological approaches to development. Likewise, Nazneen Kanji is a social policy specialist who worked with the government of Mozambique throughout the 1980s and then moved into policy research, teaching and consultancy work after completing a PhD at the London School of Economics on structural adjustment and urban poverty in Zimbabwe. She has carried out field research in various Sub-Saharan African countries and in South and Central Asia, including work with many NGOs. Her main research area is related to gender and livelihoods, in rural and urban contexts. Both of them have long time experience in the field of development research and practice.