DP: Development through interdependent synergies

State, NGO’s and Private Sector face together challenges regarding development. Whenever there’s a common goal, logic would suggest that working together could make it easier, taking in account that something is uniting rather than separating. Reality shows how not necessarily this statement works in some countries, especially when one of the parts is particularly powerful. These three actors could give different answers towards development through interdependence, but, is it possible to transfer the concentrated power of one sector into the others? Can there be balance between different powerful sectors? Will that achieve development?

To transform State, the society that’s underneath needs to change itself first. Two great drivers could foster this transformation, NGO’s on one side, enterprises on the other.

Enterprises can impact in the lives of their workers if they help them in the provision of their basic conditions. Interests and communicational bridges have to be developed in this sense, and not just to know the areas in which the enterprise can contribute, but also to transmit the way in which workers can make those efforts sustainable by themselves. If water well is build to help the community were most of employees come from, it’s also important to spread the necessary knowledge to maintain it, so it doesn’t deplete itself by overuse or pollution. If the water well runs sustainably, this would also remain as a sustainable example of how a company can be active and helpful in the development process of their people, not just for the water, but also for the impact that clean water has over health. Efforts like this can transform society progressively, benefiting all parts. Also for enterprises, having a solid image, good reputation, motivated staff, productive and healthy workforce is a good thing.

NGO’s also play an important role reinforcing the synergies just commented. Their existence is justified over their social nature, considering they help society in different manners, from providing information to social services. For NGO’s also enterprises turn to be essential, as for they can be an important source of funding. International aid tends to be slower and more indirect (bearing in mind that in many cases the aid has to go through States first). If the Private Sector changes by including the people into the development process, the more will it grow, impacting as well on the possibilities of funding of NGO’s. Considering that NGO’s get involved within the fulfillment of State warranties- such as rights- it’s clear that people can do something for their own rights and environment. The stronger the Private Sector inside a country is, the more likely circumstances are favorable for NGO’s to exist and to keep citizenship active in the defense of what’s theirs: their own rights.

Supposing both of the above mentioned sector would work as perfect as it’s depicted on this written thoughts, circumstances would be prepared for the change that State needs to support the other two sectors. State is vital in all this process, as for it provides the conditions for society to develop (Sachs, 2005). Incentives and laws modify or model behaviors, meaning that State can be a driver to foster society’s synergies just mentioned, furthermore, State can be part of these. If the three sectors would become interdependent, State will also benefit from it by having the necessary support (Socially and economically speaking) to give all of the outputs (connections by land, air or water, all basic services, strong institutions) that citizens need to keep developing by themselves.

Latin America is a region with cases where States can be oversized, so the space left for enterprises or NGO’s is not enough to generate those interdependencies for. For State to change and open spaces, individuals have to change first, outputting their changes into enterprises and NGO’s. Synergies between both sectors is key to their growth, which is the first step to interdependencies. Interdependencies will be the indicator of equilibrated sectors. Development is a process, but it starts by everyone of us, no public institution, enterprise or NGO will change without our change, precisely because they are formed by people.

Sources:

Jefrey Sachs (2005). “The End of Poverty”. Penguin Books. London, England.

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