Power, Money and Autonomy in National Policies and Programmes

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Jane Cottingham, Marianne Haslegrave, Rosalind Petchesky and Barbara Klugman for comments on a previous draft and to Frances Kissling for discussion of some of these issues.

Notes

* See IJOG 2004;85(11/Supplement).

* Yazbeck uses this term in his paper for developing country governments who accept outside funding and loans. This is telling.

† The UN is international because it consists of autonomous members from all over the world who meet and jointly determine its policies. With few exceptions, most international NGOs, on the other hand, are based in donor countries and are run primarily by people from those countries; some are international only in that they open offices in developing countries and hire staff to implement their policies in those countries. While democracy in the UN is often illusory, the autonomy of satellite offices of international NGOs may be equaly so.

* Anyone who has ever observed, treated or experienced serious illness knows what a profound misnomer this is.