4.6.3.1: The phrase so-called necessity indicates that you don't share this view. You belong to the service oriented wing. The actionist wing often stresses the experience in the daily work of the organisation that clients over and over present te same problems, indicating the structural nature of the problem. So why not attack the root of the problem. The service oriented people often mean that problems don't go away through political talk and clients will be left alone if the organisation directs its energy to action or lobby. This conflict of opinion is in some cases solved by developing social action activities in a service-oriented organisation. The data and stories collected in the contacts with the target group can be tools to bring about social change. In other cases the organisational culture will not permit the development of a more action oriented image. This then provides one of the few good reasons for splitting the organisation.

Read organisation 6: the fan of mainstreaming. Read civil society 1: a list of possible NGO contributions. Read civil society 2: definitions of civil society. And read civil society 3: NGO's and their contribution to the development of civil society. Read civil society 4: NGO's and development action. Read civil society 5: reasons for a NGO to choose for contributing to civil society.