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NGOWatch is an U.S. project whose stated goal is to monitor the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their impact on public policy. It is part of Global Governance Watch, a collaborative project of the think tanks American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. It initially operated between 2003 and 2007 and was relaunched in May 2009.
Goals
NGOWatch seeks to promote transparency and accountability in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) beliving they should "they are encouraged to embrace the same standards of transparency and accountability that they demand from governments and corporations."
Staff
Jon Entine, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is head of NGOWatch.
Criticism
Before it went defunct in 2007, some journalists stated that NGOWatch might be “a wolf in sheep’s clothing" whose list on NGO’s might be "a McCarthyite blacklist telling tales on any NGO that dares to speak out against Bush administration policies” It has been criticized by some commentators as being a "right-wing campaign designed to monitor and critique 'liberal' U.N.-designed NGOs." They have also been accused (by The Public Eye) of "an explicit attack on NGOs, domestically and internationally" and as a "NGO Watch is a subtle attack on the United Nations," amd "NGO Watch is a subtle attack on civil society itself." .
References
- http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/about/
- Daniel A. Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud (eds.): Ethics in action: the ethical challenges of international human rights. Cambridge University Press 2007, p. 109. Cited page at Google Books
- Jean Hardisty and Elizabeth Furdon, "Policing Civil Society: NGO Watch," The Public Eye, 18, no. 1 (2004).
- http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v18n1/v18n1/css/v18n1_4.html
- http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v18n1/v18n1/css/v18n1_6.html