7.6.1.1: Sometimes in rural areas, this situation is rather inevitable. Maybe the NGO itself has not enough power or status to be able to negate the influence of such people. If this is the case the only possibility is to involve those powerful people in such a way that they support the goals of the NGO's without interfering too much.

Look at solution 1A: building or restoring organisational hygiene. Read action 1: strategy. Read civil society 4: NGO's and development action. Read communication 3: research and public support.