Mohammed Awal Alhassan has longstanding experience as a development practitioner, currently leading Norsaac, a Ghana-based policy-influencing CSO. As a partnership expert, he guided civil society organizations into sustainable partnerships for effective programming. Recently he developed a prototype on ‘participatory grant making’ as part of the RINGO project. With Marijke Priester he published on Southern leadership in international development programming.
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The INGO Problem – Power, Privilege and Renewal by Deborah Doane: a review
In this review of Deborah Doane’s recent book, Mohammed Awal Alhassan and Marijke Priester put forward their thoughts on the concept of ‘INGO’, a concept that keeps bothering them. They argue that sticking to the ‘INGO’ terminology, renewed or not, doesn’t go along with a genuine renewal.