Transnational NGO, Development and Global Governance

Empirically recent global developments have shown that transnational NGOs operate in between civic mobilization dimension to organizational and institutional dimensions depending on the particular contextual event. NGOs have demonstrated capabilities to move between civic mobilization grass root orientations and top down organizational platforms (Stachursky, 2013). In this regard the state remains significant in the process of NGO activities. Although globalizations in the form of mobility and technological advancement diminished state monopoly, NGOs continue to struggle overcoming national priorities not just for acquiring funds but also for engaging in an increasingly complex but still state centric world.
We can nonetheless agree on the point that Transnational NGOs as non-state actors and have the capacity to simultaneously operate local, global and transnational. On one way these are competent organizations that participate on global politics and governance. On the other these are movements operating between state and society. How you see transnational NGOs, therefore, depends where you are in the world. In Africa depending on who you ask, NGOs could be saviors or neo-colonial neoliberal opportunists. In China, NGO work until recently mainly remained within the national framework and is seen as supplementary to state strategies and potential intermediates between state and society. For many parts of the Middle East, NGOs remain controversial as agents of colonial expansion, perpetual elites and foreign agencies. For the west NGOs are seen organizations that more or less design and pursue projects designed for the south and developing countries.