[CivilSoc] To Elena Voronina from Dr Simon Heap: 2nd try to get this to you.

[Simon Heap]

September 11th's Impact on Civil Society in Central 
Asia
Simon Heap
Senior Researcher, INTRAC (International NGO 
Training and Research Centre), Oxford
7 Oct 2001
INTRAC runs the largest British programme in Central 
Asia.  Additionally I am co-ordinating a 3-year, 4-country
study into Civil Society in Central Asia
[<www.intrac.org/r-civsoc-ca.htm>
The history of humanitarian crises tells us if there is a
big movement of people and refugees across borders, not 
only will National Government budgets be under pressure, 
but there will be a very serious impact on local NGOs.  
A large-scale relief programme by international NGOs 
(INGOs) - those few already inside the region and those 
many organisations new to the place for the first time - will
overwhelm local NGOs.  
International NGOs will decimate local NGOs on several
levels: at a practical level, the INGOs will buy in local
NGO staff; at a regional level, certain affected oblasts
will become hot spots for money and materials, skewing
relief and development trends; at a government level,
taxation laws will be changed to allow tax breaks and
allowances to those foreign organisations bringing lots of
money and supplies, to the detriment of local NGOs.  
Lots of refugees and relief work does not mean lots of
'business' for local NGOs.  Local NGOs should watch out 
for an invasion of foreign NGOs soon after the refugees 
arrive!  Lots of refugees could induce the INGOs to move 
in for their own relief programmes and wipe out local 
NGOs in the process.