ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as part of a movement but one marked by its international, even cosmopolitan. The NGOs fit into a different social movement but one that nonetheless does fit Touraine's demanding and admittedly somewhat ethnocentric requirements. Brazilian NGOs are distinctive in other ways, which may contribute to their more political, less commercial or practical agenda. A large number of NGOs and grassroots support organizations (GSOs) over time slipped—in some cases reluctantly—into a range of partnership relations with the official development community at both national and international levels. In Brazil, the NGOs and GSOs do not find a ready partner in state institutions, and as a result they may be forced to continue to rely on international donations more than their Chilean counterparts, but they may also preserve more basismo. In the years since the military left power, the relationship between the state, the NGOs and GSOs, and grassrroots activism has become more complex.
