AFST-360 : NGOs and Africa

The course is designed to help the student in developing a significant understanding of the world of NGOs. The theories and concepts underpinning the purposes, modalities of operations, systems of mobilizations and the degrees to which the stated high goals are faithfully implemented are surveyed and analyzed. The course focuses on both the visions, ideas and skills NGOs have brought to practically all sectors of society in developing and industrialized countries. All the intermediate steps of NGO goals, mobilizations, activities and implementation mechanisms as well as the concrete results registered by the new global phenomenon are studied and discussed with the purpose of linking the universal and regional/national interplay of NGOs and Africa's quest for dignity, democracy and sustainable development.