ABSTRACT
The case-study material provides several instances in which attempts by NGOs and GOs to work together have produced few, if any, positive results. Thus, AKRSP’s attempts to make government receptive to the possibilities of joint management (by government, NGOs and the people) of forest resources has begun to produce results, but only after sustained effort over a number of years. Other examples are provided by BRAC’s work on poultry: its collaboration with government has produced a more efficient system of delivering improved technology inputs, but barriers remain to the achievement of BRAC’s wider goal of permanently establishing government services which are responsive to the needs of the rural poor. A further example is provided by Proshika’s work in social forestry: attempts to strengthen the claims of poor people over common property resources have challenged (on the whole, unsuccessfully) existing power structures based on patronage relations between local elites and the Forestry Department.
