On Funding and the NGO Sector, Nilanjana Biswas
NGOs are an entrenched part of the system, an institutionalised force, from whom we must demand accountability even as we continue to ally with them through critical engagement
On Funding and the NGO Sector, Nilanjana Biswas
Every attempt made during the past decade to address the question of funding of women’s groups has become a highly charged affair. This is most unfortunate because a significant section of the women’s movement has identified strongly with autonomous politics and needs to interrogate the premises and implications of autonomy. Yet the reality is that NGOs are an entrenched part of the system, an institutionalised force, from whom we must demand accountability even as we continue to ally with them through critical engagement. Read full article at EPW
Every attempt made during the past decade to address the question of funding of women’s groups has become a highly charged affair. This is most unfortunate because a significant section of the women’s movement has identified strongly with autonomous politics and needs to interrogate the premises and implications of autonomy. Yet the reality is that NGOs are an entrenched part of the system, an institutionalised force, from whom we must demand accountability even as we continue to ally with them through critical engagement. Read full article at EPW