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Contents: Introduction: The Mobilizing resources for women's rights research 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: Donor relations in Ghana -- History of donors in Ghana -- Donor assistance to the Ghanaian state -- Donor 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 -- Values and rights perspective -- Life before funding: Small beginnings -- Resources before funding -- Achievements -- Challenges of the pre-funding phase -- Life with donor funding -- Relations with donors -- Types of donors -- Forms of donor funds -- Volume/size of funds -- Terms and conditions for donor funding -- Donor influences 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: Shifts and trends in the development agencies -- Future trends for WROs -- Changing the game rule, contesting the play