NGO’s are at the very centre of the world issues when it comes to
development today; they have come to command significant influence in many
areas. This has been largely due the economic and social upheavals of the last
two decades that have brought about this phenomenon. However it is not totally
true that they have a wholly positive impact upon the communities they work in.
This most common criticism arises from the fact that they illustrate
the externality crisis; which is that external factors may not have the same
fact in bringing about the necessary results that with change from within. The
rampant growth of NGO’s in places like Africa, Palestine, Haiti and many others
has shown this.
Essentially the issues that have brought about this criticism are
rooted in the fact that imposition of ideas in a hasty manner like the case of
the agricultural revolution being illustrated by the Italians only further
strengthens the argument. However the other aspect of this is also rooted in
the funding and the tags that are attached by it, thus dictating the pace and
directions; when such factors are combined it only shows the overarching
influence of politics in a sector that should essentially be non governmental.
Problems like these are omnipresent, but the way they have
manifested and shown up has been circumstantial owing to the operating
environment of the organizations.
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