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The Development Impact of NGO Activities in the Red Sea Province of Sudan: A Critique

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This article examines the results of, and the prospects for, the declared shift of NGOs from relief operations to development activities in the Red Sea Province of eastern Sudan. Statistical and qualitative information contained in the reports of NGOs themselves provides the main data source on which the analysis is based. Although NGOs have been successful in conducting massive relief operations in the area, the article asserts that they have not yet and are not expected to achieve any tangible results on the development front. The main reason for this is the apparent misconception of development on the part of the NGOs as an isolated, localized activity which they can perform; another is the NGOs' failure to recognize the difference in the methods, means and prerequisites necessary for relief and for development; a third is the failure of NGOs to equip local institutions to absorb and/or sustain any achieved ‘development’, since most NGOs operate in complete isolation from governmental and traditional Beja institutions.

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  • Hassan Ahmed Abdel Ati, 1993. "The Development Impact of NGO Activities in the Red Sea Province of Sudan: A Critique," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 24(1), pages 103-130, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:24:y:1993:i:1:p:103-130
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1993.tb00479.x
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