French NGOs in the Global Era Instant Buy

This book provides a systematic account of the changing priorities, procedures and practices of French NGOs active in overseas development work. It explores whether French NGOs are eschewing wider trends in the Northern NGO sector and uses Resource Dependence theory and a case study of NGO field-work in Cameroon to shed light on these actors.

GORDON CUMMING, having begun his career in the Foreign Office, is now a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, UK, and a specialist in European NGOs and development policy. He has published extensively in journals such as African Affairs and Third World Quarterly. His monograph, Aid to Africa (2001), was well received internationally.