Community-based development organisations in the Eastern Cape: towards survival and sustainability

Davies, Bill; Madlavu, Mzukisi

Title: Community-based development organisations in the Eastern Cape: towards survival and sustainability
Creator: Davies, Bill
Creator: Madlavu, Mzukisi
Subject: Community development corporations -- South Africa Community development -- Eastern Cape Community development -- Finance Community development -- Research -- South Africa Community development -- South Africa
Date Issued: 1993
Date: 1993
Type: Book
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1708
Identifier: vital:20218
Identifier: ISBN 0868102520
Description: Community-Based Development Organisations (CBDOs) appear in many shapes and sizes, and a variety of (often confusing) terminology is used to describe them. The term CBDO is a generic one which refers to a broad class of organisations that are involved in one form or another of "community development" activities. Probably all CBDOs would describe themselves as non-governmental organisations (NGOs); and they could be service organisations, resource organisations (or both), or even welfare organisations. Some would see themselves as development agencies or as performing an advocacy/lobbying function on behalf of a more or less clearly defined constituency. Many CBDOs have a relatively narrow focus (for example, on some particular aspect of education or training - like literacy, teacher upgrading or technical skills)- whilst others pursue a broader range of activities associated with a spectrum of "community development" initiatives, projects or programmes. Much depends on the motivation for establishing a particular CBDO and its access to human and financial resources. They are part of the burgeoning Non- Profit Voluntary Sector in South Africa whose worth, in 1987, was estimated at a minimum of R2 billion - "and probably much more than that"
Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Format: 111 p
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Language: English
Relation: Development Studies Working Paper No. 59
Rights: Rhodes University
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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