ABSTRACT
Mision Alianza de Noruega en Bolivia (MAN-B) is a ‘Non-Governmental Evangelical Christian Organisation’. The Strategy Plan 2013–2017 stated that ‘it is a Mission that facilitates development together with local grassroots organisations and civil society organisations’. Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Bolivia (IELB) is a national church institution recognised by the Bolivian state in 1972. The church was formally established in 1959, as a result of missionary work by the World Mission Prayer League from the USA from 1938. Institutional strategies, marked by religion as well as development, are ultimately results of internal negotiations between individuals. These processes are heavily influenced by international and national partners in development, religious institutions and different actors in local communities. IELB and MAN-B depended on relations at local, national and international levels to do their work. Both IELB and MAN-B cooperated with local churches. Within theories of development, churches are often treated as civil society actors along with other non-governmental organisation.
