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Sudhanshu S Singh Profile picture
@sssingh21
Aug 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1. During his #IndependenceDay2020 speech, PM @narendramodi again highlighted the necessity of #AtmaNirbharBharat. We went one step ahead asking us to move from #MakeInIndia to #MakeForWorld.

I wonder, why can't the same apply for NGO sector?
2. Do we have dearth of our homegrown NGOs that we need international NGOs to occupy our space in India, who primarily exist here to take benefits of the funding now available in India, including the #CSR funding?
3. We have a rich history of the CSOs, playing important role before the independence and afterwards. That has been undermined due to the heavy presence of international NGOs through their country offices.
4. This is the new-colonialism which many people are not even aware of. On this #IndependenceDay can we commit that we would be supporting only those CSOs, which have originated in India?

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Nov 20, 2021
1. This @OpIndia_com blog was brought to my notice which is based on a report from a so called news channel @newsindia24x7_. I am going to reply with a challenge to them. If I am proven wrong, I will give up the work I do, and I am not, everyone from these two news agencies ....
2. should take sabbatical and go back to learn basics of journalism. What these two have reported, best qualifies as ignorance, stupidity and yellow journalism. The Operation Angutha, has been done by अंगूठाछाप people, and they need to be exposed.
3. There is a video of @newsindia24x7_ in the @OpIndia_com report. This video is constantly showing a passbook. That passbook has been issued by @humanaidint to every refugee family in Majnu ka Tila and Signature Bridge refugee camps. Did they find out, why?
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May 26, 2021
Couple of days ago I received a call. The person identified himself as SI from Delhi police. He said, there was a complaint against us that we raise funds in the name of refugees but do nothing.

I will get back to this story, but before that let me tell you something else.
Before I turned off my TV last night, I saw two advertisements. One was from a multilateral agency and another from INGO registered in India. Both raise billions of dollars around the world.

Their ad showed vulnerable faces of women and children during the money and they .....
projected them as their only saviour, doing even more than the government, hence the money to be donated to them.

Before I sleep, I play one game of Sudoku. When I opened, I saw another ad from a rich agency showing crying faces and hence the donations to be given to them.
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Dec 2, 2020
1. Last week I was invited to address a NGO platform in a European country to speak and challenge them on #localisation agenda.

#localisation is a term referred to strengthen local NGOs who are often first responders to disasters.
2. The term became a buzzword after the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, when it was realised that less than 0.3% funding was reaching to local/national actors. Hence a commitment was made to pass on at least 25% to them by 2020. #localisation
3. Anyways, while addressing them I asked, I am seeing 15 organisations part of this NGO platform. What if I was addressing platform of any other European country, or North America, or Japan. Would I see different NGOs there or same?
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Nov 25, 2020
1. Vestige of #colonialism continue to exist. The aid industry is also part of that. The #BlackLivesMatter campaign has triggered debate on #colonialism and #racism prevailing in the aid sector. Would it help addressing the problem? Would be premature to reach to a conclusion.
2. I have been working in the sector for over three decades and faced discrimination numerous times because of my nationality, complexion and also religion. Will share some experiences today. Before that, let's see how colonialism gets defined. #DecoloniseAid
3. Colonialism is a practice of domination and subjugation of one people/institution to another. It broadly has four characteristics:

-political & legal domination
-economic & political dependence
-exploitation
-racial & cultural inequality

We find all of them in aid sector
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Sep 26, 2020
Dear @SwarajyaMag team,

Here are my views on the #FCRA bill, and I hope my views, based on my over three decades of Indian and global experience, would reach Mr @narendramodi and Mr @AmitShah as well.
There are two features of the revised act which are praiseworthy, i.e, linking of Aadhar and disqualifying public servants from receiving foreign fund. However, your assumption that the revision may lead to #AatmNirbharBharat may unfortunately not be true.
Rules are framed to control the malpractices of NGOs but the big and cunning ones always have resources to find a way out and consequences are felt by honest NGOs. For example, when a Tamil Nadu based NGO lost its FCRA, it already had another FCRA registered NGO to divert funding
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Sep 11, 2020
In India, racism has taken a new form. Until a decade ago, white people were recruited as country head in all INGOs. Since that is no more possible, people of colour are recruited, who carry the same mindset. Policies still come from the West to get implemented here.
Addressing this new form of racism is very challenging. International NGOs have taken over Indian NGOs' space without most of the Indians knowing about it.

Most of us feel, an international NGO definitely means more honest and credible NGO, so let's support them.
I don't get even any attention when I talk on such issue. And that is the biggest impediment while challenging the racism and neo-colonialism in the aid sector which is in worse form in India than many other countries.
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