What is development and how does it work? What role do non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in the process of development? How do they work at all? Who are NGOs accountable to and under what conditions is their work successful? How do NGOs get their resources, and what do they spend it on? This course is designed to answer some of these questions. Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of NGO management for international development. In order to do so, we will – next to studying the issue through texts – go on a one-week field trip to a refugee camp in Greece. Students should therefore be prepared to engage quite significantly with this course. The course starts out with broadly introducing different theories of international development and how they have changed over time as well as the possibilities and limits of development aid. We will then discuss the role of NGOs in the process of development, focusing amongst other things on the political and social context in which NGOs work, NGO accountability, managerial issues, fundraising, ethical concerns and the like. This theoretical part will serve to generate research questions for term papers, that ideally will be followed up on during the field trip. We will then start preparing for that field trip in close collaboration with an NGO called Global Brigades.