Download or read book The Participation of Nongovernmental Organizations in Poverty Alleviation written by Anna Kathryn Vandever Webb and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how relative strengths and resources of NGOs and the public sector may complement each other to offer services more effectively. After highlighting typical problems, authors offer recommendations for improving collaboration among governmental and implementing agencies, NGOs, and the World

Download or read book The Role of Non governmental Organizations in Promoting People s Participation in Poverty Alleviation written by UN. ESCAP. Secretariat and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Non governmental Organizations and Rural Poverty Alleviation written by Roger Riddell and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been considerable interest in recent years in the abil ty of non-governmental organizations to work with the rural poor in developing countries in order to improve their quality of life and economic status through the provision of credit, skills training, and other inputs for income-generation programmes. This book brings together the results of sixteen evaluations in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Zimbabwe) to provide a detailed assessment of the contribution that NGOs make to rural poverty alleviation. The results indicate that NGO projects are successful when they build in a high degree of participation, when the staff are committed to the goals of the project, and when they are managed by strong and competent leaders. Many of the projects studied contributed to increases in income and welfare. Programmes designed to provide economic benefits also proved effective in improving the social status of the poor. However, not all projects were successful, contrary to received wisdom about the efficacy of NGO interventions. Many failed to reach the very poorest, most were costly to implement, and few of the projects demonstrated an ability to continue once external funding was withdrawn. These findings provide strong support for viewing NGOs as a mechanism for helping to reduce rural poverty, but also demonstrate that many of the interventions are isolated or one-off. The impact of NGOs could be heightened by increasing the size of the intervention, encouraging greater cooperation among NGOs, and by fostering closer co-operation with governments.

Download or read book Here to Help NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America written by Robyn Eversole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over six billion dollars in developmental assistance is funneled annually through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), yet little is understood about the nature of their relationship with communities and the real impact of their work. This book examines what role NGOs really play in fighting poverty in Latin America. Expert NGO professionals and scholars explore grass-roots relationships between international religious and secular NGOs and poor communities. They probe the power structures, cultural assumptions, dangers and possibilities that underlie NGOs' work. While fighting poverty is the mission of many NGOs, most are aware that they often fail to make things better, and, in fact, may make things worse. By providing a forum for Northern and Southern NGOs, donors, scholars, and poor people themselves, this book explores the causes and cures of poverty, and presses at the boundaries of our understanding of participatory development. It identifies both internal and external factors that influence the success of NGO projects, and moves beyond standard best-practice theory to probe more deeply the relationships that underlie poverty and how these relationships can be shifted to achieve solutions.

Download or read book Role of Non Governmental Organizations NGOs in Poverty Alleviation written by Gerald Akame Mbwoge and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is still a big challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa and the world at large, with children and women being the highest vulnerable. Many people die every day of hunger yet there is sufficient quantity of food in the World to feed everyone. This poses a big problem because the poor are unable to afford their basic needs. With a situation of this sort, international Organizations like the United Nations, the World Bank, governments and Non-Governmental Organizations are putting in great efforts to curb its prevalence. This work examines specifically, the role the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) plays in alleviating poverty in Tombel Sub-Division in Cameroon. Through the use of questionnaires and interview guides, findings revealed that WWF is encouraging various livelihood activities and many are benefiting in financial and material terms, which has gone a long way to improve the economic life of the people and thus help in alleviating poverty. Some policy implications include increasing the funds allocated to various projects in order to facilitate Community-Based Organizations and encouraging governments to take poverty reduction as a primary development agenda.

Download or read book Ngos And Rural Poverty written by M.L. Narasaiah and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-governmental organisations have become the new hope of development cooperation. Criticism of official and multi-lateral development assistance in mounting. After more than for decades of international cooperation, there is more poverty in the Third World (with the exception of a few countries) than ever before. It has become clear that existing instruments cannot bring about change. Even the large donor organisations doubt their own ability to solve problems and find their doubts confirmed by internal evaluations. What led to this state of affairs, and is there reason to hope that the NGOs can do a better job?

Download or read book NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals written by J. Brinkerhoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors.

Download or read book Poverty Alleviation Strategies of NGOs written by D. Rajasekhar and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the efforts made by the NGOs in alleviating poverty, with special reference to India.

Download or read book Non Governmental Organizations and Development written by David Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are high profile actors in the field of international development, both as providers of services to vulnerable individuals and communities and as campaigning policy advocates. This book provides a critical introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and development. Written by two authors with more than twenty years experience of research and practice in the field, the book combines a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. It highlights the importance of NGOs in development, but it also engages fully with the criticisms that the increased profile of NGOs in development now attracts. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development begins with a discussion of the wide diversity of NGOs and their roles, and locates their recent rise to prominence within broader histories of struggle as well as within the ideological context of neo-liberalism. It then moves on to analyze how interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical trends and debates within development studies, before analyzing NGOs and their practices, using a broad range of short case studies of successful and unsuccessful interventions. David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji then moves on to describe the ways in which NGOs are increasingly important in relation to ideas and debates about ‘civil society’, globalization and the changing ideas and practices of international aid. The book argues that NGOs are now central to development theory and practice and are likely to remain important actors in development in the years to come. In order to appreciate the issues raised by their increasing diversity and complexity, the authors conclude that it is necessary to deploy a historically and theoretically informed perspective. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners. The format of the book includes figures, photographs and case studies as well as reader material in the form of summary points and questions. Despite the growing importance of the topic, no single short, up-to-date book exists that sets out the main issues in the form of a clearly written, academically-informed text: until now.

Download or read book NGOs and Child Labour written by M. Lakshmi Narasaiah and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: NGOs: Searching for Solid Ground, No Miracle Weapon for Development the Challenges Facing NGOs in the 21st Century, NGO s Better than the State, Stop Child Labour, Child Labour in Weaving Industry, Child Labour Targeting the Intolerable, Trade and Labour Standards, Rural Poverty in India, Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Towards a New Policy on Poverty Reduction, Children s Health and the Environment, Who is Responsible for Corruption in Aid?, Peace and Poverty, Welcome, Baby Six Billion, Population Growth and Jobs, The Population Challenge, The Future of Work, Violence in Schools, Can Economic Growth Reduce Poverty?, The Dynamics of Rural Poverty in India, The Persistence of Indian Poverty and Its Alleviation, Overcoming the Poverty in India and the Lessons Learned, Rural Poverty in India and Development as a Policy Challenge, Employment and Promoting Ecology, The Indian Economy and the Cattle Wealth.

Download or read book Tanzanian Non governmental Organisations written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Role of NGOs in Developing Countries written by Ravi Shankar Kumar Singh and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Nepal.

Download or read book Assessing the Role of Non governmental Organizations in Poverty Alleviation Through the Creation of Sustainable Livelihoods in Uthungulu District written by Lindokuhle Vukani Mkhwanazi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of Civil Society Organisations in Poverty Alleviation written by Sheikh Karim Sajjad and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study explores efforts aimed at poverty alleviation by local- national-, and global-level civil-society NGOs in two South Asian countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It opens with a review of literature on different meanings of poverty and poverty alleviation and the role in this process of non-governmental organizations, followed by a comparative examination of the meanings of civil society in Western (secular) and Islamic (faith-based) traditions. Having outlined the socioeconomic profiles of Pakistan and Bangladesh, the study then comparatively investigate in this context the purposes, organization and funding, types of activities and outcomes in terms of the alleviation of poverty of local-, national-, and global-level secular and faith-based civil-society organizations in these two countries. The study is based on face-to-face interviews conducted in situ by the author and the analysis of the available organizational records and relevant secondary sources. Having identified these features of non-governmental organizations operating at three different levels in the examined countries, the study comparatively assesses the overall cross-country and cross-sectional similarities

Download or read book NGOs and Development Alleviating Rural Poverty in Bangladesh written by A. K. M. Ahsan Ullah and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nongovernmental Organizations and the World Bank written by Samuel Paul and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Challenges of Nongovernmental Organisations in Anglophone Cameroon written by Lotsmart N. Fonjong and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognised that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have undertaken an increasingly important role in both human development and environmental conservation efforts in the less-developed nations during the past three decades. Much of the literature on NGOs focuses on, or is sponsored by, large Western-based international NGOs which themselves undertake or direct many of the development and conservation efforts. This book cuts through sensitive subjects including government corruption and manipulation, the misuse of NGOs and the limitations of small, under funded local development organisations to identify the crucial role of local NGOs in the challenging context of rural development in Sub-Saharan African. His observations and insights are highly useful and provide important contextual understanding for future human development and environment conservation projects in rural African settings.