NGOs in a global future: marrying local delivery to worldwide leverage
✍ Scribed by Michael Edwards; David Hulme; Tina Wallace
- Book ID
- 101291499
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-2075
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✦ Synopsis
This article argues that global trends are creating unprecedented opportunities for civic action at local, national and international levels. Three interconnected trends are identi®ed: economic and cultural globalization, and the inequality and insecurity they breed; the increasing complexity of humanitarian action in response to ethnic con¯ict and intrastate violence; and the reform of international co-operation to deal with the problems these trends create. In response, new forms of solidarity are emerging between citizens and authorities at dierent levels of the world system. It is these new relationshipsÐexpressed through partnerships, alliances and other forms of co-operationÐthat provide the framework for NGO interventions, but they also require major changes in NGOs themselves. Chief among these changes are a move from development-as-delivery' to development-as-leverage'; new relationships with corporations, elements of states, the military, international institutions and other groups in civil society; and new skills and capacities to mediate these linkages. These developments call for major changes in NGO roles, relationships, capacities and accountabilities.