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Development of Africa has featured in many debates, writings and researches about the \ncontinent. It is vivid that there exist a lot of theories that compete for the attention of the \ncontinent. This is primarily because there is no approach that can be said to be most \nsuitable for rescuing the continent from its deprivation and economic backwardness. \nBotswana is a country that unlike others in the continent seems to be doing exceptionally \nwell both economically and politically. However, some experts are not credulous to take \nthe praises that are directed at Botswana without raising questions. They echo that \nunderneath the praises exists abysmal poverty arriongst the citizens of this glorified country. \nThe existence of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in this country gives hope to \nmany people who are relegated to deprivation and want, in a country that is acclaimed for \nits political and economical prosperity. \nThis study attempts to demonstrate that Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are \nuseful in development. However, they are faced with immense challenges that render them \neconomically and politically powerless. Amongst those challenges is their inability to \ngenerate their own resources to fund their own projects, which inevitably makes them \ndependent on resources from the donors or governments. Most studies on NGOs have \nindicated that the problem of lack of resources have some negative impact on their \nrelationship with their beneficiaries. This is often as a result of pressure that. they exact on \ntheir beneficiaries to meet terms and conditions that are drawn by the funding agencies. \nThis arrangement fundamentally defeats the ideals of Sustainable Development that \nadvocates for active participation of those people that are directly affected by their \ninterventions. It comes to light that even in cases where NGOs display some willingness to \ninvolve their beneficiaries in their activities; it is always not easy due to insurmountable \ntask of parrying influence from governments. The government of Botswana for instance, \nmaintains its power over disempowered communities, so that it can act unilaterally without \nhaving to face resistance from politically and economically empowered communities. \nThis study pointed out to the problem that is caused by the exclusion of NGOs by \ngovernments from their policies formulation structures. For instance, the government of \nBotswana used policies that were formulated through consultancies instead of those that are \n10 \ninputted by poor people through NODs. It has to be made clear that even where NOOs \nattempt to enlist on the active participation of poor people, such efforts are usually \nundermined by their unwillingness' to formulate some withdrawal strategies. These \nstrategies could fundamentally strengthen their quest to empower communities to realise \nboth acceptable and necessary socio economic and political levels of development. There is \na tendency for NOOs to give communities some falsified impression that they would \nalways be available to assist them. This is often not communicated, but has a significant \nbearing in encouraging dependency of communities on NODs and other development \nagencies. Interestingly, this study has found out dep~ndency to be amongst the reasons why \nSustainable Development, like other attempts made before, to have not succeeded. \nThis study demonstrates adequately that NOOs in Botswana did not have any impact on \nSustainable Development. It is evident that with programmes and projects' that NOOs \nobtrude on communities that they targeted, their beneficiaries are not empowered enough to \nsustain their level of economic and political development. They also do not get empowered \nto account for environmental resources that are supposed to be under their charge. The \nbeneficiaries do not also account for the resources that are made available to them by the \ndonors through NODs. The beneficiaries cannot demand accountability from their civil \nleaders because they are not empowered to do that.
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