‘The INGO Problem is a must-read for international development leaders who have ever wondered how a system that can seem rigid and outdated can better serve civil society. Deborah draws upon her decades of experience to share a critical look at the global INGO landscape and offers an ambitious vision to overcome many of the structural inequities hardwired into the system.’Darren Walker, OBE, President of the Ford Foundation

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Armed with a university degree, the Boy Scout’s solemn oath and a snakebite kit which he left on the plane, Ian Smillie set out more than 50 years ago to confront ignorance, want and war. He taught at a remote school in Sierra Leone, was an aid administrator in Nigeria during the Biafran War and for a time he knew more about cement than anyone else in Bangladesh.

This is a memoir about development: personal development, the development of ideas and understanding, rights and justice, war and peace, poverty and prosperity. It’s about one of the greatest imperatives of our time: the drive to end global poverty and why, despite exaggerated claims to the contrary, it isn’t working.

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This book analyses the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and counters mainstream feelgood accounts of this agenda. Conventional wisdom says that efforts to achieve the SDGs contribute to building a more inclusive, sustainable and peaceful world. This book counters this orthodox and utopian view, uncovering the hidden politics of the project. Sneyd analyses each of the seventeen goals and their targets and indicators. He argues that the SDG project does more to bolster the status quo than to address pressing global challenges.

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­This book is inspired by the dedication of people across global contexts who have worked with children in communities to improve their lives. In its chapters, they share a vision where conditions are improved to attain child and youth rights and intergenerational justice.

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‘Colón, through his compelling images and testimonials from the Amazonian peoples, has exposed to humanity the tragedy of the Amazon’s destruction at the hands of the most nefarious interests of logging companies and garimpeiros, associated with multinational corporations and the blind pursuits of global capitalism.’

Enrique Leff, National Autonomous University of Mexico

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This book examines the key features, performance and limitations of the community-based water management (CBWM) model through the case study of the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) – a successful community-managed scheme that has delivered clean piped drinking water to over 450 mainly rural settlements in Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan.

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