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Power

to the

People?

(Con-)Tested Civil Society in Search of Democracy

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Power

to the

People?

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Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development Villavägen 16

752 36 Uppsala Sweden www.csduppsala.uu.se

Editors Heidi Moksnes and Mia Melin Graphic design Tegl design Printed by Hallvigs Cover photo Dreamstime Uppsala 2010

ISSN 1403-1264 ISBN 978-91-975741-7-4

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Session: The role of Middle East civil society

Palestinian NGOs and

international donors

Carin Berg

Abstract

The focus of my presentation draws on my personal experience working as a Development Officer for the Palestinian NGO Civic Forum Institute (CFI).

CFI is a grassroots civic education program aiming at supporting and strengthening a democratic Palestinian society in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. It is financed by international donors such as the EU, USAID and Save the Children. The organisation has a coherent and exclusive democratisation and local empowerment plan. However, CFI is a more or less typical example of an NGO in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a great mandate but a weak and reactionary outcome leading to mistrust and corruption.

My main questions are: What role does or could CFI (and NGOs as such) play for Palestinian civil society development? How can the inter-national communities (as the main donor society) support the NGOs to accomplish their often excellent mandates of civil society democratisation and empowerment?

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