| dc.creator | Ng'ethe, Njuguna | |
| dc.creator | Kanyinga, Karuti | |
| dc.date | 2011-08-23T13:52:08Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-08-23T13:52:08Z | |
| dc.date | 1992 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-04T16:37:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-04T16:37:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 04-01-13 | |
| dc.identifier | Ng'ethe, Njuguna and Kanyinga, Karuti (1992), The politics of development space: the state and NGOs in the delivery of basic services in Kenya, Working paper no. 486, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1113 | |
| dc.identifier | 101217 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/7549 | |
| dc.description | The centrality of the state in the development space of many Less Developed
Countries (LDCs) has come under critical scrutiny because of its limited
success in fostering adequate social, economic and political changes in the
last three decades. Many blame the deepening development crisis and attendant
decline in basic services on the inadequencies of the bloated state. The
search for other institutional actors to supplement and/or compliment the
raceding state services has focussed attention cn private non-governmental
voluntary agencies (NGOs)
This paper discusses both state and NGOs' roles and experiences in providing
basic services. It concludes that the worldwide recession, domestic economic,
and political problems, and general effects of Structural Adjustment
Programmes (SAPs) have reduced the state's capacity to deliver-services. The
result has been the intervention of NGOs. This intervention has been received
with unease by the state, especially in recent years, due to what can be
regarded as competition for legitimacy between the state and the sub-state
ictors. The paper concludes that the state is likely to continue to be the senior partner in this competition. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Working papers;486 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Politics and Power | |
| dc.subject | Governance | |
| dc.title | The politics of development space: the state and NGOs in the delivery of basic services in Kenya | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
