Palestine NGOs as Effective Development Players

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Palestine NGOs as Effective Development Players Introduction During the past 60 years, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) became one of the most dominant phenomena all over the world, that affect the development paradigms and processes in developed countries as well as in the developing world. Certainly, NGOs has a significant role in supporting different developmental aspects, such as promoting democratisation, civil society empowerment, or resources management. However, this phenomenon should be analysed critically to examine its real position, legitimacy, and practical impact on promoting sustainable development on the ground. Looking for the conditions that make NGOs effective and playing essential role in development is not an easy process. The questionable issue of achieving sustainable development arouses increasing controversy about the NGOs contribution to this process. Moreover, the fact that NGOs all over the world differ from one another in their goals, implementation, and organizational structures, makes the task more complicated. Therefore, it is important to clarify that in this paper the term NGOs intended to be the local Non-Governmental Development Organisation that is functioning in their own developing countries. Through adopting the Case of NGOs sector in Palestine, the paper will review the proliferation of NGOs, and their influence on different social groups that supposed to be empowered and represented by NGOs. Furthermore, their impact on civil society through creating new middle class of “NGOs’ People”. This “NGOisation” phenomenon, which was termed by different scholars in the NGOs literature, should be critically analyzed to explore its consequences on the nation and state building, in addi... ... middle of paper ... ... (October) Jad, I., 2007, NGOs: Between Buzzwords and Social Movements, Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Vol. 17, No. 4-5, pp. 622-629, (August) Ladadwa, H. , 2010, interview by Ibraheem Nassar, (March) Nassar, I., 2010 The Illusion of Development under Occupation: The Political Motivations of Donors’ Aid MA’AN Development Center, 2011, Matrix of Control: Conditional Funding on Palestinian NGOs, Position Paper, Ramallah-Palestine, (August) Martinussen, J. and Pedersan, J., 2003, Aid: Understanding International Development Cooperation, translated by Marie Bille, Zed Books Ltd Pearce, J., 2000, “Development, NGOs, and civil society: the debate and its future”, in Jenny Pearce (Introducer), Development NGOs and Civil Society: Selected essays from Development in Practice, Deborah Eade (Editor), A Development in Practice Reader, Oxfam GB, pp.15-43

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