Between Power and Irrelevance: Are ICSOs actually looking at shifting their roles?

In this episode, our four guests discussed the big issues of power, relevance and legitimacy of international CSOs with each other and far more widely across the sector.

We spoke with:

• George: a professor of non-profit management at Baruch College, City University of New York.
• Hans: a professor of leadership studies at the University of San Diego.
• Barney: ex-Director of Strategy Oxfam International, consultant on INGO strategy and transformation.
• Tosca: consultant at Five Oaks Consulting with over three decades of experience working with NGO leaders and change managers.

Read the two guest blogs accompanying the publication of ‘Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational NGOs’. In this first blog, George E. Mitchell and Hans Peter Schmitz explore the major long-term trends and questions already challenging the sector before the new complexities highlighted and surfaced by the big developments of 2020. https://bit.ly/3qCLLCl

In this companion blog, Barney Tallack and Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken discuss some recent changes in the environment of ICSOs and what this means for their role. https://bit.ly/3eQMCfD

You can discover more details about the recently published book Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational NGOs here https://bit.ly/3mPkgo1