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As CSOs and NGOs have become more active and influential in advocating for change and their voices more challenging, so also the reaction to them has become stronger, and the cry of ‘by what right do these unelected bodies speak’ becomes more strident. In response, NGOs in general and INGOs in particular will have to be very clear about how they answer that question. By what right do organizations like Oxfam speak? How exactly does their voice relate to that of those they are primarily concerned about, the poor of the developing world?
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Atkinson, J., Scurrah, M., Lingán, J., Pizarro, R., Ross, C. (2009). Legitimacy, Accountability and Voice. In: Globalizing Social Justice. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277939_9
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