NGO's Pacific aid

NGOs called to re-think approach to Pacific aid

The governing council of the Pacific Islands Association of NGOs, or PIANGO, meets next week and just ahead of that the organisation has met with Polynesian NGOs.

PIANGO's executive director, Emele Duituturaga, said new research shows that NGOs typically undermine traditional values and spirituality and this is increasingly upsetting communities.

"I think the model we have been forced to embrace, with a cash economy coming into the Pacific and now basically with the macroeconomics models that we are having, it is all about cash," she said.