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The search for alternative modes of service delivery has taken some unexpected turns, one of which is towards non-governmental organisations and grassroots initiatives as primary providers of the basic services normally associated with government: health, education, social welfare, shelter, emergency relief, agricultural assistance, rural credit, and others. Unlike privatisation and an expanded business sector, the ‘Third Sector’ is a less-discussed source of ongoing services. Northern NGOs were, until recently, thought of only as short-term providers of assistance or developmental catalysts. Southern NGOs and grassroots initiatives were frequently viewed as small-scale, fragmented efforts with little ability to become institutionalised, and were commonly regarded as a nuisance — if not a potential threat — by indigenous government administrators.
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Henderson, K.M. (1999). A Third-Sector Alternative: NGOs and Grassroots Initiatives. In: Henderson, K.M., Dwivedi, O.P. (eds) Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983355_3
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