ABSTRACT

The term non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was coined by the United Nations in the 1940s. More militant NGOs are prevented from making a difference. Setting up an NGO to work with Theatre of the Oppressed is not the only way, but all the ways involve dilemmas and contradictions. The funding of NGOs is limited and already demarcated. Some NGOs believe that if funding comes not from a business or from the government of their country—but rather from an international financier—that the NGO is automatically immune, clean, and pure. The work of an NGO may have many biases and does not represent a revolutionary action or struggle in and of itself. An evaluation often freezes the possibility of action in a way that even ends up preventing the project from being realized, or evaluation can make it such that the project can only be realized by a King NGO.