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AbstractSince the early 1990s, World Bank officials in many countries have pressed their government borrowers to include nongovernmental organizations as development partners. What impact has this new partnership norm had in the bank's borrower countries, and why? This article investigates these questions through longitudinal analysis of three cases: Guatemala, Ecuador, and the Gambia. In their first iteration in the 1990s, these bank-sponsored efforts generally failed to take root; yet by the 2000s, NGOs and state actors were engaged in multiple partnerships. This article suggests that over time, bank officials' repeated efforts to embed these new ideas fostered a social learning process that led NGOs to adopt more strategic partnership practices and government officials to see NGO partners as useful. Several factors may affect this learning process: levels of professionalism and the growth of professional networks, the presence of effective "bridge builders," and the level of historical conflicts.

Cynthia J. Arnson, Prologue 1. - Part I: The Human Rights Idea. - 1. Mark Ungar and Katherine Hite, The Arc of Human Rights 9. - 2. Alexander Wilde, Human Rights in Two Latin American Democracies 35. - 3. José Thompson, Participation, Democracy, and Human Rights: An Approach Based on the Dilemmas Facing Latin America 73. - Part II: Institutional and Legal Frameworks and the Question of Accountability. - 4. Jo-Marie Burt, The New Accountability Agenda in Latin America: The Promise and Perils of Human Rights Prosecutions 101. - 5. Priscilla B. Hayner, Reconsidering the Peace-and-Justice Debate: International Justice in Africa and Latin America 143. - 6. Thomas G. Weiss, The United Nations and Human Rights: What Is Wrong and How to Fix It 163. - 7. Mark Ungar, Crime, Society, and the Challenge to Human Rights Protection 195. - 8. Elizabeth Lira, Chile: Coming to Terms with a Traumatic Past 219. - Part III: Citizens' Movements and Conceptions of Citizenship. - 9. Gordon H. Hanson, International Migration and Human Rights 245. - 10. Henry F. Carey, The Longue Durée of NGOs Promoting and Monitoring Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in a Divided Global Civil Society 267 . - 11. Monique Segarra, Challenging Neoliberalism and Development: Human Rights and the Environment in Latin America 303. - 12. Katherine Hite, Voice and Visibility in Latin American Memory Politics 341. - Margaret E. Crahan, Epilogue: A Task for All 383