International development:

Contextual challenges for INGOs

Changing Roles of NNGOs and SNGOs .

• NGOs no longer centre of development .

• Refocus on the State.

• Civil society and end or means?

• Genuine capacity development?

• Instrumentalisation or independence?

• Business as usual is this an option?

TRENDS

• Changing aid architecture.

• New options, threats and opportunities

• Paris Declaration and Accra, mixed messages.

• New civil society groups not tied to “Aid”

• Challenge of poverty in “mid income” countries.

Fields of action

• Global branding • Emphasis on humanitarian action not

development• Sub contracted not for profits.• New countries,• New priorities,• poverty in affluence?

Functions of Civil society

• Helps generate the social basis for democracy:

• Promotes political accountability

• Produces social trust, reciprocity and networks.

• Creates and promotes “alternatives”

• Supports the rights of citizens and the concept of citizenship

Future ?

• Choices for agencies– Countries,– Sectors,– Roles

• To do , to support, to franchise ?

– Global or local? – What value independence?