The Secretary General of CIVICUS ask a question “Are INGOs guilty of hogging resources, poaching local staff and being brand-obsessed?”

Those five things:

1. Hogging resources.
2. Paying lip service to local partnerships
3. Poaching staff.
4. Being brand-obsessed.
5. Failing to do themselves out of a job.

I think they’re all true in current context in Vietnam too.

Câu hỏi báo The Guardian đưa ra khá hay. Đọc bài tiếng Anh ở đây >>>

Trích: “I know from experience how frustrating southern NGOs find it when there’s always money to write a report or host a workshop; but never enough for more local staff. If poverty could be overcome from report writing, then we would have solved it long ago.”

Very useful!

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