If You Don't Count, You Don't Count: Monitoring and Evaluation in South African NGOs

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 649-670

  Mueller Hirth, Natascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APARTHEID; CIVIL SOCIETY; MONITORING; NEOLIBERALISM; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84861220183     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01776.x     Document Type: Article

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