NGO Future and Challenges:

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NGO Future and Challenges

• Life Beyond Aid

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NGO Futures Beyond AID NGDO Values and the
Fourth Position

• 1.What does the author refer to as NGOs in
  beyond-aid scenarios? What is his rationale for
  saying that?
• 2.What options are there for NGOs in a theory and
  practice beyond aid?
• 3.What does the author mean when he states that
  BAS can be regarded more as opportunities than
  threats to NGOs?
• 4.What might NGOs in fourth position look like?
• 5.What are lessons learned for NGOs?

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Areas of NGO Achievement

• Provided realistic diagnosis of the new problems
  of globalization and their impact on poverty and
  conflict
• Redefined their missions and have stretched them
  beyond outdates conceptions of charity
• Learned how to become members of global networks
• Taking off the blinders that came with old and
  more rigid conceptions of North-South relations
• Contributed to the emergence global civil society
  

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Greatest Innovations

• Development programming with the focus on
  livelihood security and social exclusion aspect
  of poverty
• Raising consciousness of ethical, structural, and
  operational dilemmas of NGO work
• Pressuring global institutions on internally
  displaced people
• Embarking on partnership with private and public
  sector
• Redesigning their global families

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Areas of Slow Transformation

• The creation of genuine international governance
  boards
• Family networks
• Greater multidirectional accountability
• organizational learning principles
• Inter-organizational and sector cooperation
• Management structure
• Documenting impact