ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses whether CSOs from countries that evolved from beneficiaries of official aid into internationalised CSOs have a comparative advantage over CSOs from established donor countries. Poland, where CSOs were some of the major beneficiaries of official aid after the toppling of socialism and since 2005 have supported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its diplomatic missions with their development cooperation, democratisation assistance and public diplomacy efforts, will be analysed as a case study on the basis of two empirical investigations conducted among Polish CSOs engaged in these fields.
