Development Practice:

The movement by faith based NGOs to develop the underdeveloped rural areas and
areas with high poverty.
Criticism:
These scholars all
state that NGOs are too anxious to quickly fix the problems resulting from poverty
in one area so they can move on to the next. Projects are often put together in
haste and implemented speedily without adequate reflection.
NGOs often bypass the step of consulting the local about implementing their program
in order to reduce the time scale of the program but as a result deteriorating the
situation more rather than improving it in the name of developing the world.
These scholars highlight the overeager and brash approach of NGOs,
stating that projects fail because community participation in project planning and
implementation is overlooked
*Community participation is ignored because of the eager approach.
Various suggestions have been made as to why, despite the financial input,
NGOs have failed to reduce the widening gap between the rich and poor. Pottier
(1993) suggests that a large part of the problem is the reluctance of NGOs to make
long-term commitments to those communities they target.
Why there is no significant positive effect of these NGOs on poverty reduction the
main problem is the lack of involvement of community people. The donors put
pressure on the NGOs to give good results in small amount of time but they dont
understand that the sustainable development is time consuming and also costly. It
requires the NGOs to understand community problems, their need and then act
according not just acting what they thing is right.
Dfid believes that faith-based NGOs could be
doing something different and worthwhile in comparison to their secular
counterparts.

Faith based NGOs do almost the same work but their motivation is different and the
way of achieving the goals too.