Group Deliberations

While working together on the presentation after many deliberations we have come to arrive at the fact that inherently a lot of NGOs are there which want to make a difference in the communities where they operate. But, there is one thing that often comes attached to the whole argument and that is that critics attack NGOs all the time calling them means of change that work from the outside rather engaging from within the communities. This is not wholly true as there are NGOs in many places that are run by the people from the very communities they operate within.

Evidence has come to show that NGOs have very often helped make the transition that was taking place politically in many places like post Pinochet Peru, help reach out to the lower masses of society and foster the democratic movement in Indonesia. Although we will be drawing on from these experiences, our larger focus is on ROTA and how it aims to encompass the ideals of an NGO that is democratic from within and looks towards making an impact. This is in line with the fact that very often we fail to recognize that the problems with NGOs mostly occur from the fact that they fail to actively deconstruct the societies they work within.