Gaza NGOs... The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Gaza NGOs... The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Civil society organizations are the main vehicle of social change and development in any society. They represent the overall civil society including every part of the social structure. In other words, civil society organizations reflect the situation of their society as well as its trends and values. Moreover, civil society organizations are considered as the guard of liberal-democratic concepts in the society. Their role is to preserve credibility and accountability and to stand against corruption as well as resisting bad governance through civilized means. In Palestine, civil society organizations played and still playing significant role within several domains. About their contribution in resistence, civil society organization started resisting occupations since the early 1920s to the 1940s of the twentieth century. Islamic and Christian charitable societies, labor unions, youth clubs, and women's organizations stood strongly in the...