Angela M. Crack is Reader in Civil Society at the University of Portsmouth, where she leads the ‘Transnational Civil Society’ research cluster. Her research specialism is NGOs and civil society, and she is the author of several journal articles on this subject as well as Global Communication and Transnational Public Spheres (Palgrave, 2007). She is the founder and co-convenor of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on NGOs. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units that focus on the role of civil society actors in world politics.Hilary Footitt is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, and PI for the AHRC funded project: 'The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in development programmes'. She was in the interdisciplinary research team of the Leverhulme funded project, 'The Liberal Way of War', led in the Politics and International Relations Dept. of the University, and has taught on the Masters programme in War and Conflict. She has published widely on languages in international settings.. Wine Tesseur is Researcher in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at the University of Reading. She is currently working on the AHRC-funded project "The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in Development Programmes", which aims to explore the role that languages and cultural knowledge play in the policies and practices of development NGOs. She has taught and published on language and translation policies in NGOs.

• Chapter 1. NGOs and Listening. - Chapter 2. NGOs Constructing the Listening Zones.- Chapter 3. Donor Listening.- Chapter 4. The Listening Zones of UK-based Development NGOs.- Chapter 5. Translators and Interpreters in Development.- Chapter 6. Malawi.- Chapter 7. Kyrgyzstan.- Chapter 8. Peru.- Chapter 9. Learning from the Listening Zones.- Chapter 10. Recommendations for Practitioners and Next Steps: The Conversation Goes On.

Angela M. Crack is Reader in Civil Society at the University of Portsmouth, where she leads the ‘Transnational Civil Society’ research cluster. Her research specialism is NGOs and civil society, and she is the author of several journal articles on this subject as well as Global Communication and Transnational Public Spheres (Palgrave, 2007). She is the founder and co-convenor of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on NGOs. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units that focus on the role of civil society actors in world politics.Hilary Footitt is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, and PI for the AHRC funded project: 'The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in development programmes'. She was in the interdisciplinary research team of the Leverhulme funded project, 'The Liberal Way of War', led in the Politics and International Relations Dept. of the University, and has taught on the Masters programme in War and Conflict. She has published widely on languages in international settings.. Wine Tesseur is Researcher in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at the University of Reading. She is currently working on the AHRC-funded project "The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in Development Programmes", which aims to explore the role that languages and cultural knowledge play in the policies and practices of development NGOs. She has taught and published on language and translation policies in NGOs.

• Chapter 1. NGOs and Listening. - Chapter 2. NGOs Constructing the Listening Zones.- Chapter 3. Donor Listening.- Chapter 4. The Listening Zones of UK-based Development NGOs.- Chapter 5. Translators and Interpreters in Development.- Chapter 6. Malawi.- Chapter 7. Kyrgyzstan.- Chapter 8. Peru.- Chapter 9. Learning from the Listening Zones.- Chapter 10. Recommendations for Practitioners and Next Steps: The Conversation Goes On.

Angela M. Crack is Reader in Civil Society at the University of Portsmouth, where she leads the ‘Transnational Civil Society’ research cluster. Her research specialism is NGOs and civil society, and she is the author of several journal articles on this subject as well as Global Communication and Transnational Public Spheres (Palgrave, 2007). She is the founder and co-convenor of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on NGOs. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units that focus on the role of civil society actors in world politics.Hilary Footitt is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, and PI for the AHRC funded project: 'The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in development programmes'. She was in the interdisciplinary research team of the Leverhulme funded project, 'The Liberal Way of War', led in the Politics and International Relations Dept. of the University, and has taught on the Masters programme in War and Conflict. She has published widely on languages in international settings.. Wine Tesseur is Researcher in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at the University of Reading. She is currently working on the AHRC-funded project "The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in Development Programmes", which aims to explore the role that languages and cultural knowledge play in the policies and practices of development NGOs. She has taught and published on language and translation policies in NGOs.

• Chapter 1. NGOs and Listening. - Chapter 2. NGOs Constructing the Listening Zones.- Chapter 3. Donor Listening.- Chapter 4. The Listening Zones of UK-based Development NGOs.- Chapter 5. Translators and Interpreters in Development.- Chapter 6. Malawi.- Chapter 7. Kyrgyzstan.- Chapter 8. Peru.- Chapter 9. Learning from the Listening Zones.- Chapter 10. Recommendations for Practitioners and Next Steps: The Conversation Goes On.