Jay Naidoo is calling on civil society organisations to resist becoming too closely accountable to donors and institutions. He argues that professionalised groups can drift away from the communities they say they represent. The concern is that funding relationships and institutional partnerships may shape an organisation's priorities more than local needs do. Naidoo says organisations should publish their sources of money alongside the agendas they pursue. Organisations should also account for the results their work produces. Publishing those details would allow supporters and affected communities to judge the work more closely. His appeal asks organisations to keep their obligations to the people at the centre of their work.