Human Rights NGOs in East Africa

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Introduction -Makau Mutua PART I. DEFINING CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETY IN EAST AFRICA Chapter 1. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges -Makau Mutua Chapter 2. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya -Betty K. Murungi PART II. INTERROGATING NGO MANDATES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ESC RIGHTS Chapter 3. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs -Sylvia Tamale Chapter 4. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective -Joe Oloka-Onyango Chapter 5. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity -Willy Mutunga Chapter 6. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State -Jacinta K. Muteshi PART III: DONORS AND GRANTEES: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES Chapter 7. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities -Connie Ngondi-Houghton Chapter 8. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya -Karuti Kanyinga PART IV STATE/CIVIL SOCIETY RELATIONS Chapter 9. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change -Livingstone Sewanyana Chapter 10. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs -J. Wanjiku Miano PART V. NGO INSTITUTIONAL CASE STUDIES Chapter 11. The African Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-African Organizing in Human Rights -L. Muthoni Wanyeki Chapter 12. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs -Dani W. Nabudere PART VI. SOUTH/SOUTH AND SOUTH/NORTH NGO RELATIONS Chapter 13. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy -Margaret A. Burnham Chapter 14. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa -Shaila Gupta and Alycia Kellman Conclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Africa -Chris Maina Peter Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments