IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/padxxx/v31y2011i4p262-272.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Negotiating Collaboration In Pakistan: Expertise, Networks And Community Embeddedness

Author

Listed:
  • Richard Batley
  • Masooda Bano

Abstract

SUMMARY Despite growing emphasis within development policy on forging partnerships for development, very few development programmes designed to promote collaborative arrangements between state agencies and non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) to ensure the efficient service delivery of basic services to the poor succeed. Examining three cases of state–NGO collaboration in Pakistan, this article identified two NGO‐related factors as critical in helping create demand for their services within state agencies: (i) technical expertise and (ii) strong social and political networks. This article showed that attempts at collaboration are more likely to succeed if NGOs offer technically sound solutions to ensure efficient service delivery and have strong political and professional networks within the relevant state agencies to promote these solutions. Community‐embeddedness of the NGO can further help turn instances of collaboration into long‐term partnerships. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Suggested Citation

  • Richard Batley & Masooda Bano, 2011. "Negotiating Collaboration In Pakistan: Expertise, Networks And Community Embeddedness," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 31(4), pages 262-272, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:padxxx:v:31:y:2011:i:4:p:262-272
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Harrison, Tom, 2017. "NGOs and Personal Politics: The Relationship between NGOs and political leaders in West Bengal, India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 485-496.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:padxxx:v:31:y:2011:i:4:p:262-272. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0271-2075 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.