Social Movements and NGOs: A Preliminary Investigation
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Introduction to the debate This paper aims to explore the potential dynamics and tensions bound up in the engagement of Northern NGOs with Southern social movements. While there appears to be a general assumption amongst the Northern NGO community that these movements are the natural allies of development agencies working on issues of poverty, exclusion and sustainable development in the South, there is a considerable lack of clarity surrounding the definition of the term ‘social movement’. This has obvious implications for the way in which a Northern donor or NGO might conceptualise its potential relationship with these Southern actors. This paper will therefore begin with a clarification of what the author understands by the term ‘social movement’, and will include examples from empirical case studies retrieved from the available literature. Although this paper was originally conceived as a literature review that would lay out the state of debate around interaction between Northern NGOs and social movements, there is a surprising paucity of analytical material on the subject. As such this paper will, in the main, centre on the analysis available in the extensive academic literature available on social movements and draw inferences from this for the work of International NGOs (INGOs).
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