#ShiftThePower Global Summit will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 2 – 4 December 2026.| Another Way Is Possible
Lenie Hoegen Dijkhof, Abdoulaye Sawadogo and Malo Debe According to the CIVICUS Monitor 2024 report, Burkina Faso’s civic space was downgraded to “repressed,” dropping 12 points from …| Another Way Is Possible
Hungary has around 60,000 registered NGOs. A significant portion of these exist mostly on paper. Many operate in apolitical fields or provide valuable services without engaging deeply with questions of democracy, rule of law, or civic participation. The government’s strategy is subtle and devastating: not overt bans or shutdowns, but a campaign of financial strangulation and administrative pressure. The goal is clear: silence through suffocation.| Another Way Is Possible
Civil society was once indistinguishable from community. It lived in cooperatives like Banyankore Kweterana, or the Ghana Marketing Association, in women’s groups like the Women’s National Coalition, in student associations and more. It was relational, relatable and right next door. But somewhere along the way, NGO-ization gentrified civil society’s original landscape and transformed what used to be a local and people-powered civic space into a gated community of professionalized, donor...| Another Way Is Possible
At NTT, we have always wanted to set ourselves apart from the western INGO model of grantmaking.| Another Way Is Possible