State-civil society synergy as a development strategy: an examination of the impact of the community-based health planning and services programme in …

2014

Master thesis in development management - University of Agder 2014 The state in many developing countries has been the dominant provider of public goods and services with little involvement of civil society. Civil society in such context has often assumed the role of passive agents instead of being active participants in the country’s developmental agenda. Contemporary development practitioners have criticised this conventional relationship and called for partnership between both entities in co-producing public goods and services. A major reason adduced by authors to support the necessity for such partnership is that, there are some functions better performed by the state and others better …