NGOs focus on human rights and conflict resolution, but there is a need to strengthen the capacity of NGOs in this region in relation to these areas.
Peoples’ participation in projects is essential, but as decisions affecting people move further away from them, it is important that people participate in these international bodies which affect their lives.
Security of livelihood involves people having secure access to land and natural resources as well as access to jobs.
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To conclude, to regulate globalisation and transform it to a globalisation for human development and human rights, we can use various elements of the UN system which are already there. We do not have to invent something new. And I have considered how aid can be schizophrenic, supporting both this more "human" globalisation and the
neo-liberal globalisation. NGOs must advocate for those elements of aid which contribute to the transformation of globalisation, and which emphasise eradicating poverty and promotion of human rights, especially for the rural poor.
This paper was first presented to the Development Challenges in a Global Economy Conference, Melbourne, 7 September 2000.
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