PIA 2501

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PIA 2501
ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT THE
ROLE OF NGOs
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Decentralization and Civil Society
Governance / Democracy
Communication and Support
NGOs Womens Focused Groups
Civic Education
Land
Rural Industries
Rural Credit
Grassroots Organizations
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State Societal Linkages
Central State - Macro
SOFT STATE.PREDATORY STATE
Mezzo-Intermediate
Mono-State...INTERGOVERNMENTAL Systems in
place...Local State
Civil Society - Micro
Local - SOFT STATE.LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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Civil Society--Review

• Networks of organizations, groups and individuals
  pursuing socio-economic interests
• "Beyond the family but short of the state"
  (Hegal)

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Civil Society Review

• "Human Rights, Basic Needs and the Stuff of
  Citizenship" (Anonymous)
• Issue First vs. Second and Third generation
  Human Rights and Civil Society

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Civil Society

• NGOs, CBOs, PVOs Who do they represent?
• Grassroots, interests, not for profits
  (neutrality)
• Groups
• Role of ethnicity, religion and class, vs.
  individual rights

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Civil Society

• Privatization as an issue
• Corporatism vs. Clientelism
• Organic VS. Individualist nature of society
  (Vincent Ostrom)
• Establishing the rule of law
• Roman vs. Common Law
• What is the role of the individual

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• Break

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NGOs

• THE NATURE OF THE BEAST

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NGOs--The Nature of the Beast

• Non-Profits vs. For Profits
• Not for Profits- More value directed
• Private Voluntary
• Organizations(PVOs)
• Community Based
• Organizations (CBOs)
• Foundations

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NGOs- The Nature of the Beast

• Civic Associations
• Interest Groups
• Quangos
• Trade Unions
• Religious Organizations

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Five Caveats

• Usually excludes for profits
• Issue of contractors- both for profits and
  non-profits
• Includes both International and Local
• Internationals are not universally loved

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Caveats

• Very often internationals are religious or
  charity based
• Focus has been primarily on relief rather than
  development or civil society goals

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Types of Development NGOs

• Philanthropy
• Relief and Welfare Societies
• Public Service Contractors
• Populist based development agencies (national)

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Types of Development NGOs

• Grassroots associations (local or village based)
• Advocacy groups
• Public Service Contractors

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Origins- Natural Disaster Humanitarian
Assistance and Human-Made Disaster

• War, Drought, Agricultural Failure
• Focus on Rural Development
• Human Rights
• Focus on Governance

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Natural Disaster Humanitarian Assistance and
Human-Made Disaster

• NGOs--Areas of Perceived Advantage
• Cost-effective
• Small but efficient
• Innovative
• Staff loyalty and commitment

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Natural Disaster Humanitarian Assistance and
Human-Made Disaster

• NGOs--Perceived Advantage
• Ideologically compatible with Development values
• Links with poor
• Image of populism

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Natural Disaster Humanitarian Assistance and
Human-Made Disaster

• International NGOsWeaknesses
• Lack of local legitimacy
• Donor driven
• Inefficiency

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Natural Disaster Humanitarian Assistance and
Human-Made Disaster

• International NGOsWeaknesses
• Amateurism
• Leadership and continuity problems
• Staffing problems
• Self-serving-own objectives
• Faith Based

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Natural Disaster Humanitarian Assistance and
Human-Made Disaster

• International NGOsWeaknesses
• Fixation on projects
• Problems of replication
• Lack of perceived accountability
• Learning problems/lack of institutional memory

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Natural Disaster Humanitarian Assistance and
Human-Made Disaster

• International NGOsWeaknesses
• Tensions with government institutions
• Politically threatening
• Ties with existing local elites
• Inability of humanitarian organizations to
  transfer to new development orientation

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Group Discussion--Civil Society and Democracy
in...

• Latin America--South
• Eastern Europe
• Asia
• Africa

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Mini DiscussionDevelopment, Social Beliefs
Civil Society

• Kushwant Singh, Last Train
• Norman Rush, Bruns
• The Nature of the Outsider
• Mahasweta Devi, Dhowli
• The Untouchables of the World
• Naipaul
• Believers, Unbelievers
• Secular vs. Religious Views of the World

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Winner of the Day

• V.S. Naipaul
• Nobel Prize for Literature, 2001
• Discussion
• Naipauls view of civil society
• Compare with
• Graham Greene
• Samuel Huntington
• Susan George

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Author of the WeekArturo Escobar

• What Does Escobar say about the concepts
  Development Economics and Planning?
• How does he "Deconstruct" development?
• What does that mean?
• "What Is To Be Done?" according to Escobar.
• Can we de-objectify the targets of development?
• Subjects
• Customers
• Consumers
• Neighbors?