Saturday, July 09, 2005

Pervertness and NGO sector

It would be a utopia when all politicians and socialist aunties don’t just brag about making this world a **happy place**…

I wasn’t aware of this crude reality until I joined this Multi-national Anti-corruption NGO with headquarters in Berlin.

It all started in the end of last year when this NGO got multi-million dollar aid from International donors. We had a regional meeting at that time. With the news of $$$ pouring in there arose a mega brawl between the Executive Director and trustees **included many mega-personalities of Pakistan** and what they did…They kicked the Executive Director out and make Secretary General a new person who use to work with the NGO. This person is a very corrupt person from KPT **also had many cases filed in NAB** This headship including last executive director belong from engineering profession having no **kakh** knowledge about development sciences…considered researchers as bogus and unpractical.


TI-Bangladesh (this NGO’s another chapter) hired 80 people from the amount given in aid to TI-P for the same project. And here only two people have hired since. TI-Bangladesh’s Executive Director is a PhD in Development Economics and runs the organization hand in hand with University professors and researchers. Even noted writer and analyst Monis Ahmer is attached with The Bengali chapter.

While the Executive Director TI-Nepal is a lawyer and also keeps media and researchers with him. While TI-India is no less than Pakistan, headed by all ex-bureacrats and big-shot uncles.

My question here is that why funds are given without proper check and balance. Well, why they we have all such donors especially **all from west** want to market themselves and in reality want a 50 percent doer. Their real purpose is to market their name in the following country **strategy is not different from these large scale economies, commonly called as MNCs**…

This is the dilemma of our societies, so we call ourselves Muslims **ha-ha** running before money and trying ever hard to impress the neighbour…and silent over such many discrepancies….I have noticed in countries where sincerity and openness is present, only they are real successful in true sense.

That’s another reason why, I like marketing world…you don’t need to tell anyone to take license for being Pervert!!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Henna, read your blog on the Transparency International and found it most appropriate. My mother is an MNA and has to face many an ignominy of listening that "Politicians are corrupt". There are cases everywhere, but the NGO sector is the most corrupt one. You find that a husband is chairman, daughter is a director/trustee, own residence is given on rent for 100k a month, wife is a contractual employee paid in $ etc. It just so happens that these people remain unaudited and at the same time we have to hear their pseudo intellectuallism like Poverty Alleviation and Distress Management etc.

My mother who was facing a tirade on Capital Talk that "Political parties do not have democracy and are corrupt", showed the real face to the alleger. Well all hell broke loose and she had to face a campaign led by Asma Jahangir. My mother was vindicated when the president himself came out with exactly what she had said while in NYC. (My mother is from the opposition).

Anyways, to cut a long story short, these NGO's need to be checked and shouldnt be glorified at all. Isnt it ironic that TI became famous only when it came up with a rating on Pakistan?

Take care

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