>Although I don't see anything terrible about more disclosure by NGOs.
>NGOs are already "credentialed" in an informal way; a few more standards
>are actually more likely to question the corporate sponsorship of some
>"respectable" NGOs. Unions live with certain standards of accountability
>and democratic requirements, and those are generally rules that benefit a
>more open and ultimately more militant union movement. Abit more
>accountability might decrease the "one dollar one vote" fundraising-based
>decisionamking that motivates a lot of NGOs, or at least expose those too
>dependent on particular outside funding sources.
Disclosure, sure, and accountability to a popular base rather than program officers, yes. But credentialing by government, after proof of acting responsibly, sounds like a disaster. Just the kind of "licensing" scheme that gets U.S. human rights officers all exercised.
Doug