Publications of the Centre

Papers, Chapters in books and Essays

Fons van der Velden has written a chapter in the book that was published in September 2009 in honour of the 40-year anniversary of the Wereldwinkels. The book, Publiek Geheim, de mensen van de Wereldwinkel, was presented by director of the LVWW (Landelijke Vereniging van Wereldwinkels) Huub Jansen to Minister Koenders at the ASN clients day on September 19, 2009. A longer version of the chapter by Fons van der Velden, Over wereldburgers als co-creators van ontwikkeling en durfkapitaal, can be found here.

Contextuals

Fowler, A. 2007. Civic Driven Change and International Development: exploring a complexity perspective. Contextuals No. 7. Click here to access the document.

Baas, Tinga, van der Velden, 2006. Social return on investment: an introduction. Contextuals No. 4. Click here to access the document.

Van der Velden, F., 2004. Capacity for Development: a plea for a real paradigm shift. Contextuals No. 2. Click here to access the document.

Reports

In 2004, 2005, and 2008 Context, international cooperation has organised together with partners workshops on different aspects of Child Centered Community Development (CCCD). These workshops gathered practitioners and policy makers from different parts of the world who shared and discussed their visions on CCCD.

- To access the report of the 2004 workshop, please click here.
- To access a summary of the 2005 workshop report, please click here. (if you are interested in the full report, please contact mst(at)developmenttraining.org.
- To access the report of the 2008 workshop, please click here.

In 2010 Context and other partners (Hivos, Cordaid, MinBuza, Social Evaluator, ISS and Broederlijk Delen) organised two events, CDC & local politics and CDC & development policies, which were part of the DPRN process.

Several documents came out of these events:
- For the event reports, please visit the DPRN process page
- A discussion paper on CDC & local politics
- A synthesis report of the two events 

Books

Brouwers, Jan; Prins, Ester and Salverda, Menno (2010) Social Return On Investment: A practical guide for the development cooperation sector. Utrecht

Van der Velden, Fons, Editor (2007) Wereldburgerschap. Handreikingen voor het vergroten van draagvlak voor mondiale vraagstukken. (International citizenship. A helping hand for strengthening societal support for global issues.) Assen: van Gorcum