All NGOs should hold "annual stakeholder meetings" and include in these gatherings representatives of the target populations of the NGOs. Elections should be introduced on every level. All countries and multinational organizations (such as the UN) should pass laws and sign international conventions to regulate the formation and operation of NGOs. The solution is to force NGOs to become both democratic and accountable. Most NGOs are ominously and tellingly secretive about their activities and finances. The trouble is that, as opposed to most governments in the world, NGOs are authoritarian. They maintain commercial interests which compete with indigenous manufacturers. They impose alien religious or Western values. They disrupt local economies to the detriment of the impoverished populace. NGOs interfere in domestic politics and take sides in election campaigns. The voluntary sector is now a cancerous phenomenon. What kind of dangers this elicits? Do you think they are a pest that need control? What kind of control would that be?Ī. The way you describe, many NGO are already more powerful and politically influential than many governments. Does the NGO own or run commercial enterprises? If it does, it is a corrupt and compromised NGO involved in conflicts of interest. How many of the NGO's operatives are in the field, catering to the needs of the NGO's ostensible constituents? The more the better.ħ. What do the alleged beneficiaries of the NGO's activities think of the NGO? If the NGO is feared, resented, and hated by the local denizens, then something is wrong!Ħ. What part of the budget is contributed by governments, directly or indirectly? The less the better.ĥ. What portion of the NGOs resources is allocated to public relations and advertising? The less the better.Ĥ. Which part of the budget is spent on furthering the aims of the NGO and on implementing its promulgated programs? The more the better.ģ. What part of the NGO's budget is spent on salaries and perks for the NGO's officers and employees? The less the better.Ģ. How can one choose between good and bad NGOs?ġ. For instance: during the Kosovo crisis in 1999, NGO employees sold in the open market food, blankets, and medical supplies intended for the refugees. They collude with venal officials to enrich themselves. Even critics of NGOs are often interviewed by the media (laughing).įinally, a slim minority of NGO officers and workers are simply corrupt. NGOs and their workers are, therefore, often in the limelight and many NGO activists have become minor celebrities and frequent guests in talk shows and such. Some NGOs exert a lot of political influence and hold power over the lives of millions of aid recipients. The officers of many NGOs draw exorbitant salaries (compared to the average salary where the NGO operates) and enjoy a panoply of work-related perks. Narcissists are attracted to money, power, and glamour. Some NGOs are involved in political networks of patronage, nepotism, and cronyism. Many NGOs serve as sinecures, "manpower sinks", or "employment agencies" - they provide work to people who, otherwise, are unemployable. Both organizations attract narcissistic opportunists who regards NGOs as venues of upward social mobility and self-enrichment. In both types of organizations - Western NGOs and NGOs elsewhere - there is a lot of waste and corruption, double-dealing, self-interested promotion, and, sometimes inevitably, collusion with unsavory elements of society. Why do you think many NGO activists are narcissists and not altruists? What are the symptoms you identify on them?Ī. They are rarely concerned with the furthering of any agenda and more preoccupied with the well-being of their constituents, the people. Their counterparts in less developed and in developing countries serve as substitutes to failed or dysfunctional state institutions and services. They are powerful, rich, and care less about the welfare of the indigenous population than about "universal" principles of ethical conduct. They closely collaborate with Western governments and institutions against local governments and institutions. They are designed to spread both aid (food, medicines, contraceptives, etc.) and Western values. They are missionary and charity-orientated. Western NGOs are the heirs to the Victorian tradition of "White Man's Burden". One must clearly distinguish between NGOs in the sated, wealthy, industrialized West - and (the far more numerous) NGOs in the developing and less developed countries. Isn't that a good thing? What kind of dangers someone should be aware before enlisting himself as a supporter of a NGO?Ī. The young people feel they can do something concrete working as activists in a NGOs. NGOs are growing quickly in Brazil due to the discredit politicians and governmental institutions face after decades of corruption, elitism etc.
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