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20 century 'zuŋ u 'not for profit' empires
"Veni, Vidi, Vici ",Steti - ego adduxit amicis meis
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Still, the services that NGOs provide, in Liberia for example, are often determined by
donor priorities rather than community priorities or needs.
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In Sierra Leone, NGOs that provide services feel limited by their role as subcontractors
for international NGOs. “
USAID : 2009 NGO SUSTAINABILITY INDEX for Sub-Saharan Africa 371
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“ Material power does matter for NGOs, as resources provide capacity and offer leverage
over other actors
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Compared to states, NGOs are still relatively small. World Vision is the world's largest
INGO, but its annual budget of around $2 billion only outpaces the GNI of a handful of
(mostly island) states
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Importantly, however, in many national and local contexts, NGOs are wealthy and
independent from their host states. In Kenya, for example, NGOs receive almost none of
their funding from the state, but sizeable international funding allows them to play a
major role in service provision and governance (Brass 2016).
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The popular conception of the NGO-state relationship is a confrontation between David
and Goliath, where small, powerless activists take on bullying states. Yet scholars have
documented many dynamics – cooperation, conflict, competition, and cooptation – in
NGOs' relations with states (Najam 2000) “
"NGOs and States in Global Politics: A Brief Review." International Relations, n.d., 5. 202
(August 2020)
Stroup, Sarah.
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African NGOs Urge More Aid Through Local Agencies
Some 300 aid workers, diplomats, academics and businessmen met in Addis Ababa this
month amid growing concerns that local African aid groups are expected to run major
emergency operations or development programmes even though international funding
often fails to cover essential core costs, from staff training to communications.
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The conference backed a call for Northern donors "to channel not less than 25 percent of
their contributions to humanitarian action in Africa directly through African NGOs", with a
