International donor organizations spend billions of dollars on projects such as health, environment, education and poverty alleviation programs through government institutions and Non Government Organizations (NGOs), however they have hardly achieved the desired results; and this fact has also partially accepted in the World Bank report on poverty.

Establishing NGO in Pakistan has become a business to some extent. Entrepreneurs and influential people establish NGOs to promote their own enterprises and money-making adventures. There are reports that many NGOs run one program and take donations from different organizations for the same project; it happens because they have professionals who do the impressive paper work and fulfill prerequisites of the donor organizations, at least on paper.

The donor organizations must share blame if NGOs have not shown adequate results in Pakistan. It is not a secret that donor organizations willingly provide huge amounts only to those NGOs which are established by influential and famous people. Moreover, reading application procedures and terms and conditions for funding are outlined in such a way that only resourceful NGOs can fulfill the conditions.

Visiting many websites of donor organization reveals that they demand sophisticated information, which can only be fulfilled by an NGO that has money and resources to hire experts from different field. There are only a few organizations that encourage new Not-for profit organizations. Most of donor organizations fund projects but reluctant to provide money for general administrative expenses; they do not appreciate if none of the donor organization will take the responsibility of bearing general administrative expenses then less resource people will not dare to come in this field and establish NGOs. These donor organizations have not understood even after working in developing countries for many years that the unnatural clauses in application forms such as board of directors consist of volunteers' opens more rooms for corruption than reducing corruption. These unnatural clauses do not restrict cunning people to reap the benefits while sitting at the back seat. It is much useful that less resource but honest and sincere people establish NGOs with a declared salary for their work. t. It is also not conceivable why these donor organizations encourage unemployed to establish NGO and run the show, at least in this way there will be a slight reduction in unemployment.

It is also true that the donor organizations are not financing quality projects. For example, hardly any of educational institutions established by NGOs are providing quality education with adequate facilities. Similarly, an organization has proudly claimed in its advertisement that it has distributed bread worth of Rs.900,00,000 in a year among poor. Those organizations provided fund for such projects must think would it not be better if the organization had spent the same amount in creating jobs for poor people? The same goes with other type of projects such as poverty alleviation programs.

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It seems that international donor organizations are working on the strategy of 'something is better than nothing' without realizing the fact that this strategy will never change the fate of poor. If donor organizations are really willing to help poor people, they have to change their strategy. They must give funds to those people who are honest and sincere with their social development work. The donor organizations should invest money in changing the basic fiber of the society. Instead of running poor educational centers it is much better that they fund projects that provide quality education with modern facilities to the children of poor families which opens decent opportunities for them in future. Similarly, if donor organizations are sincere in reducing poverty in countries like Pakistan, they must provide funds to those projects in which people can work and earn reasonable amount to lead a decent life. For example, they must consider establishing small industries, educational institutions, small shops, kiosks and other business in which ownership or partnership should be given to ordinary and poor masses. It is also important they encourage those individuals to run NGOs who do not have resources instead of supporting entrepreneurs and Influential people.

In addition, the donor organizations have to take measures to remove corruption from their own organizations. Ihtasham-ul Haque report (Dawn 18th July) shows that corruption significantly influence decisions of the donor organizations; in his report, he narrates an incident, "few years ago in one of the important meetings of the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) an officer of the ministry of finance opposed a particular development project on the grounds that it had an open element of corruption and that some officers of the donor agency wanted it for their own vested interest."

In short, donor organizations must accept their own mistakes if their projects have not brought the desired results or have not properly addressed the problems for which they provided the funding in developing countries like Pakistan. Thing will not change until donor organization change their strategy.