Cooperation and Complementarity among European Agencies

Abstract

The importance of NGOs and their accomplishments to have influence over the state and the market are applaudable. Despite this, poverty exists, The new liberal developmental model has succeeded to reach only a certain section of the society at the cost of the poor. Michael Edward and David Hulme point out that "one of the most important factors for this is the failure of NGOs to make right linkages between their work at micro level and wider systems and structures of which they form a small part."

The background of the context of co-operation among European agenies raises the following questions: How to reach the poorest?; How could NGO interventions protect the poor in the light of Macro Economic policy shifts?; How could NGO intervention have a greater impact?; How could NGO initiative become sustainable?; Are NGO's really cost effective ?; How to arrive at synergy from all the actors working for poverty alivation?; These are some of the challenges that provide the background to the context of co-operation among European agencies which has been discussed in depth in this article.