Many NGOs around the world are moving beyond conventional project work with its emphasis on `doing' and are attempting to enhance their impact through `influencing'. There are four inter-connected approaches: project replication, grassroots mobilisation, influencing policy reform and international advocacy. Each of these calls for a more strategic relationship between NGOs and governments. For NGOs to move to an effective `influencing' mode requires new skills and a new relationship between Northern and Southern NGOs.
