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"Veni, Vidi, Vici ",Steti - ego adduxit amicis meis

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I was whisked safely to a more developed country nearby, where world-class medical

care awaited me. The whole thing cost more than $200,000; insurance paid.

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Some time later, one of my national colleagues – the longest-serving team member –
was involved in a road traffic accident on his way home from work.

He lay unconscious on the roadside for 15 minutes, his leg shattered. As Ebola ravaged

the country and accessing healthcare became harder than ever, he spent nine days in
limbo, before being flown to the same country that I had been treated in, and another

days waiting there before the necessary surgery was performed. It took 20 days from
accident to surgery. Twenty days through which he lay in uncertainty, fear, and
excruciating pain.

"Secret Aid Worker: It's One Standard for Local Staff and Another for Expats" 187
The Guardian (June 2015)
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INGO - Skewed Self-Interests ?

“ International aid NGOs began as humanitarian agencies, transformed into advocates of

alternative paths to development, and then, as they would like to see it, became
proponents of a rights-based approach...

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However, the adoption of rights-based approaches has been much more intertwined with

the processes of global governance.

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the advances and changes in development thinking often occurred elsewhere--at the UN,

in universities, in the Bretton Woods institutions--and NGOs became the conduits through
which these ideas were disseminated.

As such, the articulation of rights-based approaches by NGOs had as much to do with

actors other than NGOs themselves. The explanation for this lies in the relationship
NGOs have come to adopt with the official institutions of national and global governance.

Here, rights talk has served a variety of interests and has become intertwined with new
vocabularies of development in which the freedom of NGOs to act can be restrained as
well as transformed. NGOs have become intertwined with the broader processes of

political and economic globalization, including those aspects of which they have been
open critics.