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  • There's some really good work being done by American military civil affairs teams and lots of other what you call NGOs, international aid organizations.

    CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2003 2003

  • Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák signed a memorandum of understanding with a platform of non-government organisations (NGOs) on Tuesday, May 4, and used the occasion to stress what he called NGOs 'important role in the provision of development aid.

    The Slovak Spectator 2010

  • Lund agrees: "My experience with other NGOs is that they can feel quite intimidating or overwhelming, especially if you're a smaller partner," he admits.

    The United Nations of Disco: Liechtenstein mixes clubbing with geopolitics Alex Macpherson 2010

  • The obvious lack of success of the NGOs is in part due to lack of a uniform purpose, planning and coordination, - as well as the very obvious fact that it is not in the NGOs interests to contribute to a better Haiti, as they will unlikely be putting themselves out of business voluntarily.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Metaphor for No Accountability Georgianne Nienaber 2010

  • [Additionally, when Jewish liberals like Beinart reflexively defend the overtly anti-Israel Human Rights Watch and like-minded NGOs from the charge that they are anti-Israel, it gives Israelis one less reason to pay attention to anything he and his human-rights-oriented liberal colleagues have to say – and sometimes they areright.]

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Peter Beinart–Trite 2010

  • The obvious lack of success of the NGOs is in part due to lack of a uniform purpose, planning and coordination, - as well as the very obvious fact that it is not in the NGOs interests to contribute to a better Haiti, as they will unlikely be putting themselves out of business voluntarily.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Metaphor for No Accountability Georgianne Nienaber 2010

  • The obvious lack of success of the NGOs is in part due to lack of a uniform purpose, planning and coordination, - as well as the very obvious fact that it is not in the NGOs interests to contribute to a better Haiti, as they will unlikely be putting themselves out of business voluntarily.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Metaphor for No Accountability Georgianne Nienaber 2010

  • A few Congress people have proposed sidestepping the science to do what they think society apparently wants, which according to some NGOs is to ban that terrible chemical.

    Jon Entine: With the European Union and a Slew of New Studies Reaffirming the Safety of BPA, At What Point Will the Science Prevail? Jon Entine 2010

  • The obvious lack of success of the NGOs is in part due to lack of a uniform purpose, planning and coordination, - as well as the very obvious fact that it is not in the NGOs interests to contribute to a better Haiti, as they will unlikely be putting themselves out of business voluntarily.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Metaphor for No Accountability Georgianne Nienaber 2010

  • The obvious lack of success of the NGOs is in part due to lack of a uniform purpose, planning and coordination, - as well as the very obvious fact that it is not in the NGOs interests to contribute to a better Haiti, as they will unlikely be putting themselves out of business voluntarily.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Metaphor for No Accountability Georgianne Nienaber 2010

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