The SANGONeT team has gathered a wealth of useful scholarly and policy related opinion pieces which provide a very informative foundation for understanding the local NGO landscape.

List of Papers:

Financing ICT for Development: the EU Approach [2]IICD,(2005)

Partnerships for Poverty Reduction:rethinking conditionality [3]DFID, UK Policy Paper (2005)

Revamping Development Efforts, An assessment of development policy in the EU, [4] EPC Issue Paper No. 36 (July 2005)

Engaging the new Pan-Africanism, Strategies for Civil Society [5]Centre for Policy Studies, OSISA, AAI (2005)

Aid dependence and the MDGs [6]Dembele, D., M.,Pambazuka (Alliance Magazine 2005)

Expediting the Transfer of Funds for HIV/AIDS Programs [7] Management Sciences for Health Occasional Paper (2005)

The Role of NGO Self-Regulation in Increasing Stakeholder Accountability [8]Lloyd,R., One World Trust (2005)

The Potential for an Independent Regulatory Authority for NGOs in South Africa [9]Morgan, Y.,CAFSA,ICNL, (2005)

Aid Harmonisation [10]Special Report,Development Gateway (2005)

DBSA Report Sheds Light on South Africa's Second Economy(2005) [11]State of the Nation: South Africa 2004-2005 [12]Daniel, J., Southall, R., Lutchman, J.,HSRC (2005)

ICTs, Globalisation and Poverty Reduction: Gender Dimensions of the Knowledge Society [13] Huyer,S. and Mitter,S.(2003)

Improving Impacts of Research Partnerships [14]KFPE (2004)

Welcome to the aid business! [15]Holman, M., OpenDemocracy (2005)

Civil Society in Vietnam: Moving from the Margins to the Mainstream [16]Sabharwal,G., and Thien Huong, T.T.(2005)

Gender & Budget [17]International Budget Project (2005)

IMF working Paper, Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?" [18]Raghuram,R., and Subramanian, A.,(2005)

Power to the Edges: Trends and Opportunities in Online Civic Engagement [19]Evolve Foundation (2005)

Real Aid: An Agenda for Making Aid Work [20]ActionAid USA (2005)

NEPAD & Civil Society Participation [21]IDASA Africa Budget Project (2005)

Third World Debt [22]Prof. F. Meer (2005)

Gender & ICTs for Development, [23]Oxfam GB, KIT (2005)

Constituent Relationship Management (CRM), [24] by Errol Goetsch (2005)

Are mainstream NGOs failing Africa? [25]by Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi (2005)

Challenges; Opportunities for reaching the MDGs in Africa, [26]ODI Briefing Paper (2005)

Civil Society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa [27]IDS Discussion Paper 383,Robinson, M., Friedman,S., (2005)

Promoting Philantrophy: Global Challenges & Approaches [28]INSP,(2004)

The Road not Taken: International Aid's Choice of Copenhagen over Beijing [29]Eyben,R.,UNRISD(2005)

Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa [30]A Descriptive Overview, Bhorat, H.,DPRU, UCT(2005)

An exploratory analysis of HIV and Aids Donor Funding in South Africa [31] Idasa Budget Brief no. 155,(2005)

Organisational Learning in NGOs [32]Britton, B., INTRAC,Praxis Paper No.3 (2005)

Community Based Organisations: the Emerging Force within the Third Sector [33] Fahamu SA & England, Centre for Adult Education,(CAE UKZN)(2004)

Current procedures and policies dominating aid: building strong relationships and enabling NGOs meet their stated aims? [34]ActionAid(2005)

Paying the Price,Why rich countries must invest in the war on poverty [35]Oxfam, Summary (2004)

Financing Development Practice: How can we start to make the difference that makes a difference? [36]Wilson, J., Taylor, D.,UN NGO Liaison Service Newsletter,(2005)

The missionary position: NGOs and development in Africa. [37]Manji, F.,O'Coill,C., International Affairs (2002)

Donor Commitment - What is it, what drives it and why does it matter? [38]Sargeant, P.A., Farthing, P., Resource Alliance Newsletter,Global Connections, March (2005)

From Disaster to Development? HIV/Aids in Southern Africa. [39] Beyond the Political & Practical Deficits of Donor Assistance. Jones, P.,Development Update,Vol.5,No.3 (2004)

A review of government and voluntary sector development delivery from 1994. [40] Kraak, G., Development Update,Vol.3,No.4 (2001)

Political Developments in South Africa:The state of the voluntary sector. [41]Development Update,Vol.3,No.3, (2001)

The Economics of International Aid. [42] Kanbur,R.,Department of Economics (Cornell University) (2003)

A nation of Givers? Social giving among South Africans. [43] Findings from a national survey commissioned by Centre for Civil Society (CCS), SAGA and NDA, (2004)

Responding to the growing socio-economic crisis?A review of civil society in South Africa during 2001-2002. [44] By Hermien Kotze, Centre for Civil Society (CCS), Research Report 19 (2004)

Globalisation; Development Funding for NPOs in SA [45]. By Fazila Farouk (2004)

Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients, 1960-2002 [46].By OECD (2004)

Globalisation; Development Funding for NPOs in SA [45]. By Fazila Farouk and Michael Prytz, SANGONeT and CAFSA (2003)

Building Community Philanthrophy Research Project [47]. A Southern Africa-United States Centre for Leadership and Public Values at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business initiative (2003)

An independent research report on the National Development Agency [48]. By Michael Gardiner and Mmeli Macanda, Centre for Civil Society (CCS) Research Report 4 (2003)

Globilisation Briefing Paper [49]. By Heather de Wet, CDRA (2002)

An independent voice?: a survey of civil society organisations in South Africa, their funding, and their influence over the policy process [50]. By Caroline Kihato and Thabo Rapoo, Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) (1999)

From promise to delivery: official development assistance to South Africa, 1994-98 [50]. By Michael Bratton and Chris Landsberg, Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) (1999)

Questioning the crisis: international donors and the reconfiguration of the South Africa NGO sector [51]. By Terence Smith, Donor Funding Project, School of Development Studies, University of Natal.

Results of survey on civil society in SA [52]. Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) and Co-operative for Research and Education (CORE) for the South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO) (2001)

Smoke and Mirrors: The Non-Profit Sector and the National Lottery [53]. By Stephen Louw, Centre for Civil Society (CCS) Research Report 1 (2002)

The King Report 2002 - implications for corporate social investment in South Africa [54]. By the Southern African Grantmakers' Association (SAGA) (2002)

The politics of decentralisation and donor funding in South Africa’s rural water sector [55]. By Mary Galvin and Adam Habib, Centre for Civil Society (CCS) Research Report 2 (2003)

The size and scope of the non-profit sector in South Africa [56]. By Bev A. Russell and Mark Swilling, Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM) and the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) (2002)

Working with the non-profit sector in South Africa [57]. By Helle Christiansen Cawthra, with Gerald Kraak and Ntibi Maepa, CAF Southern Africa (2001)

Funding Freedom?: Synthesis Report on the Impact of Foreign Political Aid to Civil Society Organisations in South Africa. [58]. By Reitzes, M. & Friedman, S. Research Report No. 85. Centre for Policy Studies.(2001)

Shifting Sands: The Relationship Between Foreign Donors and South African Civil Society During and After Apartheid. [59] By Kihato, C.Research Report No. 86. Centre for Policy Studies(2001)

Trends in Civil Society in South Africa today. [60] By Charm Govender. ANC Publications (No date)

Foreign Aid, Democratisation and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana and Uganda [61]By Julie Hearn. IDS Discussion Paper(1999)