Table of contents for Administration of development initiative by non-governmental organisations : a study of their sustainability in Bangladesh and Nepal / Farhad Hossain.

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Acknowledgements                                                        8
Abstract                                                               11
Tiivistelmii                                                           13
1. Research descriptions                                              15
1.1   Background, aims, specific objectives and research questions    15 
1.2   Theoretical background of the research                          21
1.3   Methodology and implementation                                  22
1.4   Limitations of the study                                        25
1.5   The structure of the study                                      28
2. Development Administration, NGOs, and the sustainability of 
   NGO-led development initiatives: a theoretical framework              30
2.1   The study of NGOs in Development Administration                 30
2.2   Conceptual issues of NGOs in development                        39
2.3   Dynamics or drawbacks? The basis of NGO research                64
2.4   Defining sustainability: common tools practised by the donors   75 
2.5   NGOs and sustainability of their development projects           84
3. NGOs in Nordic development aid: perspectives from donor countries                                                       89
3.1   Denmark: DANIDA's NGO assistance                                89
3.2   Finland: NGO assistance of the Department for International
Development Co-operation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland              96
3.3   Norway: NORAD's NGO assistance                                 105
3.4   Sweden: SIDA's NGO assistance                                  114
3.5   Brief summary of DANIDA, FINNIDA, NORAD, and SIDA assistance to NGOs          121
3.6   Sustainability: the official donors and the donor NGOs         122
4. Development NGOs in Bangladesh and Nepal: perspectives from recipient countries                                             127
4.1   NGOs in Bangladesh: a general overview                         127
4.1.1  The Nordic tie: an empirical study of selected NGOs in Bangladesh  141 
4.2   NGOs in Nepal: a general overview                              148
4.2.1  The Nordic tie: an empirical study of selected NGOs in Nepal  161



5. The sustainabilitv of NGO initiatives: four case studies from the field                                                     167
5.1   Case Study I: Bangladesh: The health programme of the Bangladesh
Lutheran Mission-Finnish (BLM-F) in Northern Bangladesh      J67
5.2   Case Study II: Bangladesh: Institutional analysis of
Bishwanathpur Village in Northeastern Bangladesh             187
5.3   Case Study III: Nepal: Public, private, and non-profit:
institutional analysis of Hekuli Village in mid-Western Nepal  201
5.4   Case Study IV: Nepal: Sangita Tamang and NGOs: the
relevance and sustainability of development initiatives in Nepal  219
6. Key research findings: The Sustainability of NGO-led development 
   initiatives - some empirical observations              235
6.1   Factors affecting sustainability: administrative perspectives  235
6.2   Empirical findings from Bangladesh and Nepal                 240
6.3   The donor, the recipient and the capacity of NGOs:
concluding remarks                                           249
Appendixes                                                         252
Acronyms and abbreviations                                         256
References                                                         261