How NGOs React: Globalization and education reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia

by Iveta Silova, Gita Steiner-Khamsi

This work follows the Soros Foundation's educational reform programmes and raises larger questions about the role of NGOs in a centralist government, relationships NGOs have with international donors and development banks, and how projects are adopted and interpreted in different contexts.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jennifer Kern]

"Illuminates not only the contexts that have shaped the education reform initiatives and outcomes of Soros national foundations in the region, but, by extension, what conditions are likely to infuence the success or failure of NGO activities in post-socialist as well as other societies."
- Robert F. Arnove, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership , Indiana University, Bloomington