Local resources are more likely to be used to serve the needs of people when markets and the ownership of capital are local. NGOs can have an important role in building local economies and in advocacy for policies that strengthen local control. But not all NGOs are created equal. There's a big difference between those that are part of the system and whose very existence is premised on charity and those civil-society organizations that are working for real change. If you look at the whole aid system you see it is an instrument for advancing the corporate agenda by making people more dependent on the global economy, by shifting their production away from local needs to producing for export and by shifting control of their resource base from local people to foreign corporations.
Corporations are the main proponents of the orthodoxy of economic growth.
They say the solution to poverty is to stimulate growth and create more wealth for everyone. There is little evidence that economic growth alleviates poverty. Since 1950 the world's total economic output has increased five-fold while the number of people living in absolute deprivation has doubled. That growth has pushed human demands on the ecosystem beyond what the planet is capable of sustaining. And it intensifies the competition between rich and poor for the resources that remain.