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Platform for reflection, learning and collaboration for the transformation of INGOs

The debate on decolonisation has brought to the table a problem that the sector has carried with it since its modern inception.

Platform for reflection, learning and collaboration for the transformation of INGOs

The debate on decolonisation has brought to the table a problem that the sector has carried with it since its modern inception

Platform for reflection, learning and collaboration for the transformation of INGOs

The debate on decolonisation has brought to the table a problem that the sector has carried with it since its modern inception.

“How to influence a post-colonial narrative and practices in the North by drawing on knowledge, experiences and alliances with organisations in the global South to break the myth of "aid".

Simon Ticehurst

México/Reino Unido

"Cooperation must maintain the principles of solidarity, equity, justice, etc., which have become blurred over the years and are now more strongly influenced by the geopolitical interests of some aid organisations or their governments".

Gilda Rivera

Honduras

"The response to the COVID-19 crisis has exposed many shortcomings of an aid system that is powerless to redress inequalities"

Jaime Atienza

Suiza/España

Ben Philips

Reino Unido

"The old model of international NGOs is over. That doesn’t mean it is time for their end; it means it is time for their renaissance."
“It is easier to act on the consequences than on the causes, since these are linked to profound inequalities in power relations”

Nathalie Beghin

Brasil

"Some of the challenges hampering the cooperation sector at the moment include the continuing imbalance of power between donors and recipients of grants. The term often used for this is donor-driven but I think it is also donor dominated."

Lan Mercado

Filipinas

NGO: Change to be able to change

TWS / Editorial

Asier Hernando Malax-Echevarria

“Two decades ago it was obvious that it was necessary to provide aid for development. Today it is not, at least not in the way it is done at the moment”

Chema Vera

España

"Global international NGOs must transform themselves in order to challenge and influence the global system of governance. That transformation is about changing, shifting the power within the NGOs"

Winnie Byanyima

Uganda

"INGOs face multiple challenges in current times. However, the deepest challenges are around fundamental questions of relevance, credibility and impact of INGOs."

Amitabh Behar

India

"INGOs are struggling to define their role and relevance in reshaping global architecture to meet the increasingly interconnected needs of the 21st century."

Fatema Z. Sumar

Estados Unidos

"The International development community must adopt a development logic that goes beyond the paternalistic and imperialistic logic with which the West has always treated the peoples of the South"

Sergio Calundungo

Angola

Lunise Jules

Haití

"We who are involved in these humanitarian and development institutions are new soldiers going to war against social injustice, poverty and disease in the world"

The big five and the international development community

TWS / Main article

Sergio Calundugo – Angola

"We are being outpaced by evil, and as we’ve bureaucratized, we are falling further behind.  Our failure to evolve fast enough may be built into our DNA."

Paul O´Brien.

Estados Unidos

"Las ONG a veces te coartan y te llevan hacia sus intereses que les sirven a ellos para justificar recursos, haciendo que finalmente terminemos dañadas."

Francisca Rodriguez

Chile
"The development community determines agendas, under formats elaborated by technicians who are not on the ground and who do not know the economic conditions".

Daniel Pascual

México/Reino Unido

Raquel Yrigoyen

Perú

“The development community often seeks only immediate results”
“In this context of fast-paced change, organizations working to promote international solidarity can benefit from the experiences of the most dynamic trade unionism, the most effective feminism.”

Eugenio Hernández Villasante

Estados Unidos/España/Suiza
“The strategies of the development community are not the same as those of the feminist movement and/or social movements”

Cecilia Millán

Chile/Canadá
"At present, it seems to me that the sector has become anachronistic, unable to adapt to a world that is much more homogeneous in its diversity, where poverty and inequalities are present everywhere"

Inma de Miguel

Benín

“Many NGOs have lost their way, influenced by political movements and the new economic order. Their capacity to respond to the needs felt by marginalized communities is reduced as they try to respond to international aid money”.

Alfonso Rosales

El Salvador

Is it so difficult to understand that we, the South, do not need to be "saved" by the North?

TWS / Main article

Damaris Ruiz – Nicaragua 

“Perhaps one of the biggest challenges is the power dynamics at the core of the international development communities, which replicate colonial patterns”

Julie Byres

Canadá
"The classic aid-based, projectist model of international development, the one in which many of us started out, is no longer valid”.

Pepa Martinez-Borso

España
"Large parts of the international development community have become, or are perceived as, part of this somewhat unfair, inequality-producing and "exclusionary" system"

Ricardo Fuentes

México

"The criticism about new colonizers may not quite be fair. But what is to be learnt from it? How ready are INGOs to give up white privileges in power positions and promote the leadership of black and indigenous faces? Is there any generational challenge to be looked at?"

Fernanda Papa

Brasil

"I think the key lies in a change of attitude towards aid and the role it plays in the 21st century"

Gonzalo Fanjul

España
“I think that one of the greatest internal challenges facing the development community in general is its ability to question itself, to address its contradictions”.

Jerome Faure

Cuba

“The development community needs to review the way in which it relates to the so-called "recipient" countries, the development model it promotes, but mainly the consequences".

Christian Ferreyra

Bolivia

“The development community will need to adopt new strategies linked to already established actions, such as support to social movements and specific and unplanned strategic actions that demand the recovery of the democratic system.”

Humberto Meza

Nicaragua/Brasil
“We need vision. In addition to an international development community with commitment and courage, we need to map not only existing realities, but also possible and desirable ones.”

Luis Salas

Venezuela

How we propose to continue the reflection

TWS /

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One Response

  1. I’m interested in this engagement. The INGO sector is in the middle of a social revolution, which is both exciting and terrifying. The future will be different from the past, but the question is whether and how the philosophy and mission will be evolve. Also the business model, which relies on regrettably old (neo-colonial) concepts. I have ideas, although they don’t all hold together.

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