[mgj-discuss] no more NGOs in a few more years? Unemployment comp for activists?

[mike sysiuk]

FYI,

Mike

See Canadian Alison Van Rooy's article "Good news! You may be out
of a job: Reflections on the past and future 50 years for Northern
NGOs," _Development in Practice_, volume 10, numbers 3-4 ([combined 
anniversary issue] 2000).

The publisher's abstract follows below:

"After 50 years of spectacularly successful work (particularly in raising 
the equity stakes, improving the quality of ODA, fostering
Southern NGO work at the international level, and organising quick and
effective humanitarian assistance), Northern development NGOs have come
to a crossroads. Van Rooy argues that the history of the NGO occupational 
category, coupled with a changing political and economic environment (the 
end of the cold war, rising international investment, declining ODA, and 
vastly heightened Southern NGO capacity), means that most Northern NGOs 
should close up shop. Instead, a kaleidoscopic rebirth is envisaged, where 
four key functions remain for Northerners (as humanitarian agents, economic 
policy watchers, North-South brokers, and corporate responsibility 
advocates). This change of job is heralded as good news: evidence that the 
project of global social justice has moved dramatically forward."

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