How interventions in the “North” can jeopardise leadership in the “South”
Behind popular concepts, real imbalances remain Working for a long time with European NGOs linked to Africa, I was often embarrassed by the unspoken vertical relationship, and by the imbalance that often occurs between an NGO from the North and a partner organisation from the South. Northern NGOs, and funders, want to implement projects and programmes they care for and to answer problems they have identified as priorities by putting forward the answers they find the most relevant and urgent. Nowadays, there is a trend to consult southern NGOs and to get them to participate in the conception of projects, to [...]