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What are CSOs All
About Today?
‘Re-searching’ Development
Effectiveness
September, 2010
Dr. Rajesh Tandon, President, PRIA
42 Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi – 110 062
Tel: +91-11-29960931/32/33; Fax: +91-11-29955183
Email: [email protected]; Web: www.pria.org
Recalling the Journey
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Development is GDP growth
Development is basic needs
Development is empowerment
Development is rights & entitlements
Back to Global Growth?
Revisiting the Players
• Governments with ODA
• NGOs (civil society after 1990s) with
ODA
• International Agencies (the Bank!)
• Private sector
• Back to State-led?
Re-stating the principles
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Endogenous priorities
Citizen-led processes
Democratic political institutions
Accountable market mechanisms
Basic needs, equity & justice
Intermediation by CSOs
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Raising Awareness
Enabling Voice
Demonstrating Solutions
Engaging with state institutions
Building capacities
CSO Effectiveness in
Development
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Responsible Intermediation
Capable response
Accountable capabilities
Multi-polar Accountability
Globalising multi-polarity
Beyond the Framework: ‘New’
Players?
*missing voices from grassroots informal
citizen groups arising Awareness
• hidden noises from the private sector
• ignored assertions of non-OECD donor
governments
• aspiring diasporas beyond remittances
• shrill occupation by media, celebrities
Beyond the Framework: New
Dilemmas?
• Development and/or democracy?
• Conflicts, disagreements and /or
violence?
• Power Politics and/or power of politics?
• State-led and/or citizen-centric?
• Rights/entitlements and/or obligations
to society?
New Opportunities for CSO
Effectiveness
• Reinterpreting the context with
democratic lens
• Re-discovering ‘global’ alliances—
horizontal & vertical
• Re-configuring indigenous models of
governance and management
• Re-connecting with local resources
• Re-imagining a ‘new’ world order