Development in Practice, Oxfam International, and Debating Development, 6, 
Contributors, 7, 
NGOs and the future: taking stock, shaping debates, changing practice Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen, 11, 
Good news! You may be out of a job: reflections on the past and future 50 years for Northern NGOs Alison Van Rooy, 19, 
Riding high or nosediving: development NGOs in the new millennium Rajesh Tandon, 44, 
International NGOs and the challenge of modernity Brian K. Murphy, 60, 
Globalisation, civil society, and the multilateral system José Antonio Alonso, 86, 
The World Bank, neo-liberalism, and power: discourse analysis and implications for campaigners Andy Storey, 104, 
Dissonance or dialogue: changing relations with the corporate sector Judy Henderson, 118, 
NGOs as development partners to the corporates: child football-stitchers in Pakistan David Husselbee, 127, 
NGOs: fragmented dreams Jaime Joseph A., 145, 
Indicators of identity: NGOs and the strategic imperative of assessing core values John Hailey, 163, 
Development agencies: global or solo players? Sylvia Borren, 171, 
Coming to grips with organisational values Vijay Padaki, 189, 
We NGOs: a controversial way of being and acting Candido Grzybowski, 209, 
Northern NGO advocacy: perceptions, reality, and the challenge Ian Anderson, 222, 
Campaigning: a fashion or the best way to change the global agenda? Gerd Leipold, 233, 
The international anti-debt campaign: a Southern activist view for activists in 'the North' ... and 'the South' Dot Keet, 243, 
Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy Paul Nelson, 268, 
Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development: the mixing of a rights-based solution Hugo Slim, 287, 
Aid: a mixed blessing Mary B. Anderson, 292, 
The Local Capacities for Peace Project: the Sudan experience Abikök Riak, 300, 
NGOs, disasters, and advocacy: caught between the Prophet and the Shepherd Boy Alan Whaites, 306, 
Capacity building: shifting the paradigms of practice Allan Kaplan, 322, 
Gendering the millennium: globalising women Haleh Afshar, 336, 
Gender in development: a long haul – but we're getting there! Josefina Stubbs, 348, 
Impact assessment: seeing the wood and the trees Chris Roche, 359, 
Does Matson matter? Assessing the impact of a UK neighbourhood project Stan Thekaekara, 377, 
Annotated bibliography, 402, 
Addresses of publishers and other organisations, 419,

CHAPTER 1

NGOs and the future: taking stock, shaping debates, changing practice

Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen

We are all products of our times. Today's world is marked by rapid and significant changes that affect us all as individuals and as societies, as working, thinking, and living beings who must continue to share our planet and its finite resources. Economic growth, which brought unprecedented levels of well-being and prosperity to many millions of people in the latter part of the twentieth century, has nevertheless left – and continues to leave – many thousands of millions of fellow human beings living in poverty, hunger, fear, and oppression. The faith that such growth would somehow trickle down to the poor and dispossessed and lift them out of their misery has proved tragically unfounded. The hope that ordinary people could, by invoking their right to a share in the full benefits of development, shake off the legacies of inequality and injustice has been a vital source of inspiration to the NGO movement worldwide. Victories have been won, oppressive régimes have been overcome, the universality of human rights is a concept that is gaining ground as never before. Yet, as the gulf between rich and poor widens year by year, it becomes harder to maintain the optimism of earlier times. Development has not delivered its promise. Perhaps it never could have done. But the very pace and scale of the changes before us now make it essential to reorient our missions as international development NGOs. The turn of the century is as good a moment as any to take stock. The turn of the millennium is an even better one.

This Reader, the tenth title in the series, is in turn based on the tenth-anniversary issue (Volume 10:3&4) of the journal, Development in Practice. In collaboration with Oxfam International, a number of development practitioners and commentators from many different backgrounds were invited to contribute their individual perspectives on core issues concerning the relevance and effectiveness of international development NGOs. In a modest way, this collection is an expression of our belief that NGOs can and indeed must become learning organisations, and that the best place to start is by standing back from the daily bustle and reflecting on some of the larger questions behind our very raison d'être in a changing international context.

In bringing together these contributions, we did not seek to impose our own opinions or simply to reflect the views of our respective institutions. Nor was it our intention to encourage self-absorbed debates on what constitutes a development NGO, or to suggest that the issues facing Northern (international) NGOs are essentially different in kind from those faced by NGOs in the South – and much less to present Northern and Southern NGOs as homogeneous blocs. Our guiding principle was that of inviting open discussion on the following questions: what forms do social and economic injustice take in today's world? What forms will they take in the future? And how relevant are today's development NGOs to the task of tackling the root causes of injustice? To put it another way: if NGOs exist not merely to administer charity, but also to shape the ways in which the international community understands and responds to poverty and injustice, how do they (we) need to change their (our) own ways of working?

On the relevance of NGOs

Opening this Reader,Alison Van Rooy (North–South Institute, Canada) demonstrates that, as products of the latter half of the twentieth century, most contemporary development NGOs are deeply rooted in the international aid industry, as development has evolved into what she terms as 'an occupational category'. The NGO movement has achieved an enormous amount, and the increasing capacity of Southern NGOs should also be celebrated as a success. But times are changing, and international NGOs (INGOs) in particular should question whether they are still relevant in this new reality. Van Rooy concludes that many of the ways of working that have been institutionalised by INGOs are now obsolete, and that new capacities and organisational forms – North and South – are urgently needed.

The transition from the international relations of the Cold War period to today's processes of increasing globalisation and economic integration demands different skills and different roles from NGOs, especially those working in the international arena. An ability to analyse and interpret these changes is essential. Offering two Latin American perspectives, both Jaime Joseph (Centro Alternativa, Peru) and Cândido Grzybowski (IBASE, Brazil) relate the importance of these faculties to the phenomenon of neo-liberal globalisation; and they point to risks and opportunities for civil-society organisations in general, and for NGOs in particular. Being seduced into a palliative role by wealthy international powers and the institutions that they largely control, basically in order to advance their globalisation agenda, is suggested as a serious risk for NGOs, while the main opportunity lies in the chance to shape the evolving globalisation process so that it makes a contribution to a more equitable global order. Andy Storey (Development Studies Centre, Ireland) highlights a specific form of this risk as the international financial institutions adopt the language of NGOs – participation, empowerment, equity – to serve as a rhetorical cloak for their own neoliberal agendas.

Advancing an alternative development paradigm in the interests of the global majority has been the distinctive mission of development NGOs. Rajesh Tandon (PRIA, India) asks whether NGOs can offer (or have the necessary skills and are in a position to argue for) a credible alternative to the international rise of the neo-liberal doctrine, which is often equated with globalisation. Historically, NGOs have been stronger on critique and protest than on developing constructive and viable proposals that can genuinely transcend the local level. Critical to their political as well as their institutional sustainability is the need for NGOs to anchor themselves firmly in their own societies; for, unless they do so, their legitimacy as the champions of those who are marginalised from the decisions that affect their lives is seriously called into question.

On the mission of NGOs

If globalisation is the process of worldwide movements of goods, money, services, communications, technology, and, to a lesser extent, people, it surely presents profound risks as well as opportunities. The core question when considering the relevance of INGOs therefore concerns their understanding of the impact of all aspects of globalisation on people living in poverty, and their capacity to counter the threats to people's livelihoods and security, and to advance the opportunities to build societies based on equity and justice. Accepting a narrow monetarist perspective of globalisation – often referred to as 'globalisation from above' – will not allow NGOs to pursue their distinctive mission, and it might ultimately alienate them from their roots and purpose. The opportunities must lie in developing a broader understanding of global realities, but one that is critically grounded in what these realities mean for the global majority, and one that is committed to working for a global system which is based on equal rights for all – what some activists refer to as 'globalisation from below'.

Focusing on the mission of INGOs in the globalisation era, José Antonio Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) concentrates on the need for the greater management of international public assets and effective global governance. While economic activity is globalising rapidly, political structures and even the intellectual underpinning of government for the common international good are lagging behind. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have long developed the expertise and power to exploit the advantages of globalisation, and to work for the dismantling of national and international legal barriers to private enterprise. At the national level, democracy does well where there is a balance between the interests of business, government, and civil society. At the global level at which economic, political, and social development takes place today, that balance has yet to develop.

Jaime Joseph argues that it is time to face up to the link between democracy and development, and this is as relevant at the local and national levels as it is in terms of global processes. This makes it imperative for NGOs to bring their grassroots development work into line with their analytical and lobbying capacity. Too often, there is a split between the kind of service-delivery work that NGOs do or support on the ground and the more critical political perspective that once motivated them. Healing the rift between the two could revitalise the NGO sector. Hugo Slim (Oxford Brookes University, UK) reminds us of the value of the international human-rights framework for NGOs' purpose, and implies that a comprehensive defence of all human rights – civil, political, economic, social, and cultural – as underpinning both their development and their humanitarian relief work would serve NGOs better than to continue engaging in mistaken ideological debates about the comparative importance of one set of rights over another.

Haleh Afshar (University of York, UK), discussing the position of Islamist women, makes a plea in this respect for NGOs to work from a better understanding of the different priorities emerging from diverse cultures and realities, and not to act solely within the narrow economic interpretation of what globalisation means. The changing paradigm calls for new forms of international solidarity, says Brian Murphy (Inter-Pares, Canada), and is also giving rise to new forms of local struggle and identity. NGOs have too readily succumbed to the notion that globalisation in its present form is inevitable and irreversible, and so have confined their role to alleviating its most deleterious effects. At the same time, NGOs risk trading their core values for forms of technical professionalism that are disconnected from their ethical mission. To be part of a movement that seeks to transform the world, and to build social justice, NGOs need to rediscover the values of citizen participation and develop genuine respect for diversity.

On the roles and relations of NGOs

The central issue is the relevance of INGOs' methods of interaction with people (the marginalised majority) whose interests they ultimately seek to serve, and with civil-society organisations, government, and business.

Vijay Padaki (a management consultant in India) and Abikök Riak (World Vision-Sudan) underline the importance of NGOs as value-driven entities, and their need to act in harmony with their organisational values, and to find ways of working as well as institutional forms which are appropriate to them. John Hailey (Oxford Brookes University, UK) stresses that this value base is the principal distinctive characteristic of NGOs, as compared with other institutions in international (aid) relations.

However, in applying these values to their actions, Mary B Anderson (Collaborative for Development Action, Inc., USA) argues that INGOs need to acknowledge the inequalities in the aid relationship and relate this to their responsibility to determine their proper roles in any given context, roles that must be based on mutual respect between the various parties involved. The word 'partnership' has today become devalued through uncritical over-use, often to mask paternalistic practices on the part of NGOs. Sylvia Borren (Novib, The Netherlands) proposes that in order to carry out an empowerment mission, INGOs must be far clearer about their different roles, their wider impact, and their own operational standards. From the Dominican Republic, Josefina Stubbs (formerly Oxfam GB) reviews the overall impact of INGOs on Caribbean women's organisations and on local NGOs' work on gender, and stresses the positive as well as the negative effects of the real influence that development funding has on local civil society.

Ever since the debates of the early 1990s on 'scaling up', or the role of what David Korten called 'fourth generation' NGOs, advocacy has been viewed as the NGOs' distinctive role in a changing world, and in changing the world. However, as thinking on the role(s) of civil society is still developing, Alan Whaites (World Vision International) and Dot Keet (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) emphasise the importance of asking questions about INGOs' legitimacy and accountability as advocates of pro-poor policy change. INGOs should take up the gauntlet, argue both Ian Anderson (Oxfam International, Hong Kong) and Paul Nelson (University of Pittsburgh, USA), and go out and demonstrate the effectiveness of their advocacy work in furthering their wider mission. This in turn implies the need to develop more sensitive methods to monitor and evaluate their efforts. With reference to three quite different 'successful' public campaigns, Gerd Leipold (formerly Greenpeace International, UK) reflects on the growing potential, as well as the real limitations, of NGOs' capacity to exercise influence through such means.

Business is an increasingly powerful sector in the globalising world. A comparison of direct foreign investment with international aid flows underscores its importance in driving global change. NGOs are starting to take note of this reality and direct their advocacy increasingly to the corporate as well as the government sector. However, the corporate sector – like the global government sector – should not be seen as homogeneous, argues David Husselbee (adidas-Salomon AG, Germany), as some corporations are now demonstrating an increasing awareness of social, environmental, and human-rights issues. Judy Henderson (Australian Ethical Investment Ltd., Australia) suggests that NGOs need to find ways to interact effectively with business in order to harness its potential to contribute to development, both through advocacy strategies and by collaborating with the private sector as appropriate.

On the effectiveness of NGOs

In the end, it all comes down to an assessment of how effective INGOs are in the context of advancing globalisation, and what they might need to learn how to do (or, indeed, habits that they need to 'un-learn') in order to optimise their impact.

(Continues...)

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