TYPES OF NGOS

• By orientation
• Charitable orientation
• Service orientation
• Participatory orientation
• Empowering orientation
• By level of operation
• Community-based organizations (CBOs)
• City-wide organizations
• National NGOs
• International NGOs
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 TARGET OF NGOS
• Community health promotion and education (such as
hygiene and waste disposal).
• Managing emerging health crises (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B).
• Community social problems (juvenile crimes, run-away,
street children, prostitution).
• Environmental (sustainable water and energy resources).
• Economic (micro loans, skills training, financial education
and consulting).
• Development (school and infrastructure construction).
• Women‟s issues (women‟s and children‟s rights, counseling, literacy
issues).

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 IMPACT OF THE NGO SECTOR

• It is now estimated that over 15 percent of total overseas

development aid is channelled through NGOs (World Bank)

Total NGO numbers are hard to pin down for good reason;
• Current estimates put the number of NGOs around;
• 6,000 and 30,000 national NGOs in developing countries
• 29,000 approximate international NGOs
• Community based organizations across the developing and
developed world that number in the hundreds of thousands
(World Bank, Economist)

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 TRENDS IN THE NGO SECTOR
• Over the past several decades, NGOs have become major players in
the field of international development
• Since the mid-1970s, the NGO sector in both developed and
developing countries has experienced exponential growth
• According to the World Bank, from 1970 to 1985 total
development aid disbursed by international NGOs increased ten-
fold
• This trend peaked in 1992 with $7.6 billion dollars being
distributed by NGOs to developing countries

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 ADVANTAGES
• Can go places and undertake missions in areas where governments can’t go
• More cost efficient than governments
• Strong grassroots links: A more “human” face
• Field-based development expertise
• The ability to innovate and adapt
• Participatory methodologies and tools: More community involvement
• Long-term commitment and emphasis on sustainability
• Less pressure from change in politics
• Small scale projects
• Can be individually tailored to meet specific community needs
• Higher “success” rate
• Less bureaucratic

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 LIMITATIONS OF NGOS

• limited financial and management expertise

• limited institutional capacity
• low levels of self-sustainability
• isolation/lack of inter-organizational communication and/or
coordination
• small scale interventions
• lack of understanding of the broader social or economic
context
• Possible lack of legitimacy
• Difficult to regulate
• Can lack transparency and accountability

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 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDGS)

• To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• To achieve universal primary education
• To promote gender equality and empower women
• To reduce child mortality
• To improve maternal health
• To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• To ensure environmental sustainability
• To develop a global partnership for development

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 NGOS MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE FIELD
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• Promoting democracy
• Advocating for human rights
• Promoting sustainable socio-economic development
• Providing humanitarian relief
• Supporting educational and cultural renewal (Rice & Ritchie, 1995).

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 NGOS WORK CATEGORIES IN
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• Implementer
• Catalyst
• Partner

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 THE ROLE OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN
DEVELOPMENT

• Providing goods and services

• Assisting the government achieve its development
• Helping citizens to voice their aspirations, concerns and
alternatives for consideration by policy makers
• helping to enhance the accountability and transparency of
government and local government programs and of officials.

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 ROLE OF NGOS IN GLOBALIZING
WORLD

Per Boutros-Ghali in 1995

“ Non-governmental organizations are a basic element in the
representation of the modern world. And their participation in
international organizations is in a way a guarantee of the latter’s
political legitimacy…From the stand point of global
democratization, we need the participation of international public
opinion and the mobilizing powers of non-governmental
organizations.”

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