Donors should see their role not as experts bringing solutions, nor as politically neutral ‘partners’, but as convenors, facilitators and politically aware contributors to serious debate” (Unsworth, 2009). While donors may wish to support civil society to provide evidence on government performance, such support must be based on a concept of empowerment rather than on “instrumental extraction of information from the poor” (Eurodad, 2006). Support to civil society must be designed so that donor procedural and reporting requirements do not undermine the capacity of citizen’s groups to collaborate according to their own agendas and for that reason donors should be cautious in funding social movements (Good Practice Note 8. Working with social movements).