Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
This group is for funders, their grantee partners, CSO networks and their members and individual organizations working throughout Sub Saharan Africa. Use this group to discuss issues of shared concern, share opportunities for collaboration and support.
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Are NGO’s in sub-Saharan Africa promoting economic independence or perpetuating
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing a phenomenon rise in NGOs at the turn of the millennium. Some of the NGOs come to help the vulnerable groups, the orphanages. Despite the large visible presence of NGOs in Sub Saharan Africa, poverty levels continue to rise alarmingly in areas were paradoxically their presence is highly concentrated. This brings to question as to the extent to which NGOs activities are a success in long term poverty alleviation. Are NGOs merely promoting a culture of donor dependence which perpetuates poverty as it becomes difficult to break the cycle of poverty?
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