Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of 'managing for development results' as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international aid. But how appropriate are these ideas, tools, and techniques for non-governmental development organizations...

Recent decades have seen a significant transformation of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector. This includes a rise in the number of organisations and people employed, a shift from charities and philanthropic agencies to hybrid social enterprise business models, competing stakeholder interests, and increasing expectations regarding accountability and transparency. The role of NFPs has also become more complex—they not only serve the...