NGOs, States, and Donors Revisited: Still Too Close for Comfort?
探讨非政府组织在发展和追求社会正义中实现长期变革目标的能力,指出其公民社会根基薄弱且受技术官僚主义影响,但可借助传统优势连接基层与地方、国家层面的结构,强化赋权和社会转型角色。
Serious questions remain about the ability of NGOs to meet long-term transformative goals in their work for development and social justice. We investigate how, given their weak roots in civil society and the rising tide of technocracy that has swept through the world of foreign aid, most NGOs remain poorly placed to influence the real drivers of social change. However we also argue that NGOs can take advantage of their traditional strengths to build bridges between grassroots organizations and local and national-level structures and processes, applying their knowledge of local contexts to strengthen their roles in empowerment and social transformation.