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Contents:Introduction -- The Mobilizing resources for women's rights project -- The Research questions -- The Ghana research process -- Background:national and international contexts -- The Current situation -- The National context and women's organizing: historical perspectives -- The Global context of women's organizing -- Donor relations in Ghana -- History of donors in Ghana -- Donors assistance to the Ghanaian state -- Donors assistance to NGOs -- Aid mobilization and coordination -- Structures/frameworks and modalities -- Implications for civil society -- Introducing the six organizations -- Organizational profiles -- Organizational forms and strategies -- Value and right perspective -- Life before funding -- Small beginnings -- Resource before funding -- Achievement -- Challenges of the per-funding phase -- Life with donor funding -- Relation with donors -- Types of donors -- Forms of donor funds --Volume /size of funds -- Terms and conditions for donor funding -- Donor influence on women's right organizations -- Challenges emerging from relations with donors -- Life beyond and besides funding -- Rethinking resources and mobilizing strategies -- Networks,alliances and partnerships -- Individual creative responses -- Life on the donor side -- Background -- Interview themes and outcomes -- Staying alive -- Shift and trends in the development agencies -- Future trends for WROs -- Changing the game rule ,contesting the play