Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I - Policy Background -- 1 - A Balance Sheet of Economic Development Experience since Independence -- 2 - The Legal Framework of Civil Society and Social Movements -- II - Classical Social Movements -- 3 - The Evolution of Trade Unionism and the Prospecrs for Alternatives to the Labour Question -- 4 - Religious Organisations and Differential Responses to the Economic Crisis: The Roman Catholic Church and the Full Gospel Mission -- III - Associational Life between Traditional and Modern Society on the Path to Autonomy and Self-Reliant Development -- 5 - On the Viability od Associational Life in Traditional Society and Home-Based Associations -- 6 - Traditions of Women's Social Protest Movements and Collective Mobilisation: Lessons from Aghem and Kedjom Women -- 7 - Micro-credit, Financial Sector Reform and Welfare -- IV - Non-Governmental Organisations -- 8 - Focus and Quality of NGOs as Partners in Development -- 9 - NGO Involvement in Environmental Protection in the North West Province -- V - State-Civil Society Relations -- 10 - Political Leadership, State-Civil Society Relations and the Search for Development Alternatives -- 11 - The Youth, the Challengue of the New Educational Order and Development Alternatives -- 12 - Towards a Synthesis -- Back Cover.