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Wikipedia
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“ The gist of the June paper by the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of
Manchester, by Nicola Banks and David Hulme, is that NGOs have lost their way. Having

started out as grassroots-led development bodies – "heroic organisations" that offered
the potential for innovative agendas – NGOs turned into bureaucratic, depoliticised

creatures that respond more to the dictates of donors than the people whose interests
they claim to represent.

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John Hilary, executive director of War on Want, the anti-poverty group, is highly critical of
this focus.

"Far too many NGOs have lost sight of the long-term, transformative goals of
international development, and are instead following a donor-led agenda of aid and
service delivery," he said.

"British NGOs are especially guilty of this – often highly professional and efficient, but

lacking the political drive that should be the lifeblood of the sector. If we are to play our
proper role in civil society, NGOs need to learn from grassroots movements and embrace

a far more radical vision of change."

"Is the Faultline Among NGOs Over the Future of Development Deepening?" 190
Global Policy Forum (August 2012)
Mark Trann
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“ Today's multinational NGOs own investments, stocks, and real estate worth millions of
dollars. The largest of them employ thousands of workers and have branches across the

world. By the time WWF turned 50 in 2011, it was paying some 5,000 staff across more
than a hundred countries. Annual budgets reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars
– and each year expenses and revenues seem to rise. Amnesty International's 2010

global income exceeded US$260 million. That year the revenue of Save the Children USA
was more than US$540 million; even the small American branch of Greenpeace had a

budget of nearly US$28 million

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Increasingly, NGOs are dividing advocacy into projects with concrete and easily-

measurable outcomes in order to demonstrate 'returns on donations'. Needing to pay
salaries, rent and electricity bills, NGOs have centralized their management structures

and moved away from tactics that might threaten firms or governments or donors.”

"Not Just about the Money: Corporatization Is Weakening Activism and
Empowering Big Business." 191