In a country under structural adjustment and managed under "good governance" policies, one NGO has attempted to focus its activities on a remote rural area with strong tribal loyalties. In so-doing, it has developed an ambiguous definition of its mission. Originally its mission was focused on democratization and not on a process of liberalization, and yet its projects are now more in line with policies promoting liberal economics than a local democratic process. This trend is reinforced by the main local stakeholders, who take over control of the projects, largely through witchcraft and its ideological use, and even the internal running of the NGO, making it the scene of a struggle for power and income, and causing it to abandon democratic transparency. This example provokes questions as to NGOs' room for maneuver between policies of "good order" and survival strategies employed at a local, community, or individual level.