The Rise of Small-Scale Development Organisations

List of Contributors. PART ONE. 1.The Articles of Faith of Citizen Aid actors - between Dreams and Realities. 2.Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity (CIGS) as new development actors in Norway - an exploration of how and why they emerge. 3.Bittersweet - exploring interactions between NGDOs and PDIs in the Netherlands. 4.The Multiple Triggers and Distinguishing Features of Canadian Citizen Aid Initiatives. 5.Perpetual Effervescence? The life trajectories of American Grassroot International NGOs. 6.The founder-syndrome; explaining the boundaries of financial expansion of Small-Scale Development Initiatives. PART TWO. 7.Brokering as a balancing act: Local coordinators in citizen initiatives for global solidarity. 8.Citizen Aid Celebrities? The Role of Charismatic Founders. 9.Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity (CIGS), frontier Africans, and experiences of trans-local networking. 10.Amical break-up or messy divorce? Understanding sustainable exit strategies of voluntary development organizations. 11.Citizen initiatives in humanitarian aid: Lesvos, Greece as a case in bottom-up humanitarian assistance mobilization. 12.Professionalized Humanitarianism and the Essentialization of Victimhood. Index.