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In spite of the problems of difference, a growing number of organisations plan programmes that enable local partners to assume greater management responsibilities. They are gratified when these partners mature from scarcely organised and dependent groups to completely autonomous local agents of development. A study commissioned by COTA (Collectif d'echanges pour la Technologie Appropriee), to evaluate the effectiveness of EU-sponsored interventions in support of popular organisations in poor countries, highlighted two things: the increasing role played by those organisations, and the qualitative growth in partnership among Northern and Southern NGOs. The study showed several areas where promising collaborations had started, including the methodologies for cooperation, technology-transfer problems, education for development, lobbying and political pressure on government institutions, the commercialisation in the North of Southern products, and the creation of credit structures. It also found that success in new forms of development cooperation was based on more responsibility being shared with Southern NGOs. This was seen in three main areas: easier checking mechanisms in economic management (transparency); the decline in assistentialist or welfarebased development (an active attitude); and the definition of common objectives (scope-sharing). Transparency makes it easier to find financial resources; an active attitude attracts those Western countries who are weary of charity; and scopesharing makes the partnership more stable, thus reducing the likelihood of divorce. These findings give hope that partnership may really be a new name in development cooperation, perhaps a training process for people to seek new responses to world problems which are ever more complex, but also ever less soluble within a system still anchored to notions of nation-states and sovereign national governments. The authors
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