Learning about advocacy: A case-study of challenges, everyday practices and tensions

Evaluation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 413-436

  Ringsing, Bettina ^a,c   Leeuwis, Cees ^b  

^a International Co Operation   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Learning; Monitoring; NGOs; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649131436     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389008095486     Document Type: Article

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