Role of NGOs in poverty reduction

This article presents a case study of a Swedish-based NGO, Assyrians Without Borders (AWB), whose priority objective is to help Middle Eastern Christians, mainly Assyrians/Syriacs, in need in their homeland. The paper argues that Assyrians/Syriacs in Sweden have developed three forms of citizenship-religious, political and democratic. All three forms are transnational and have the potential to challenge the idea of national citizenship as being the dominant model of citizenship. Participating in AWB is understood as practising democratic citizenship, a concept seen as the Swedish ideal of model citizenship. The paper claims that AWB empowers its members and helps them to construct a mutually reinforcing dual Assyrian-Swedish identity.

The quest for better livelihood opportunities has led to large-scale migration and the mushrooming of slums in several Indian cities. Unfortunately, a significant section of the urban poor do not have access to many of the benefits of urban
development. Much of the challenge of delivering services to the marginalized groups lies in identifying them and effectively approaching them. So that limited resources are utilized well and programs ad dress real needs. There is a presence of the public sector as well as CO's in urban areas. The growing requirement for health services for the urban poor. owing to rapid urban population growth, necessitates thinking about the collaborative approach of the public and Non profit sector for health services in urban areas.

A well coordinated effort involving both public sector and the NGO's can help address a number of crucial issues for effective urban health programming. NGO's can play an important role in identifying the neediest hidden pockets. Available resources can be better targeted to ensure benefit to the most vulnerable through a sensitive vulnerability assessment of slums. Innovative techniques or models of delivering health services develop which are context appropriate and involve the multitude or urban health stakeholders to avoid duplication of efforts. These can be analyzed for effectiveness and adapted to similar settings. NGO's can be effective community mobilizers to evoke community's awareness and thereby demand for quality health services. The involvement of NGO's and the community per se is critical to sustainability of any program. In view of the contributions that NGO's can make to Urban Health Programming, and the inherent strengths and operational challenges of the Public Sector, Govt.- NGO partnership is vital for strengthening RCH services for underserved urban populations. Carried out with devotion, purpose and commitment, such partnerships will be able to actualize the aphorism: "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts".

Purpose: This study examines the phenomenon of donor fatigue and its implication on donor funding for local-NGOs. It further explores alternative ways of generating funds locally. Research Methodology: Convenient sampling method was used for selecting the sample for the study. The design involves collecting data from five (5) selected international donors, thirty (30) partner organization staffs, twenty-two (22) direct beneficiaries and fifteen (15) team leaders/council members of the partner organizations. Results: Donor funds have been on the decline due to donor fatigue, over dependency syndrome, poor proposal writing, improper management of donor funds, frequent changes in the interest areas of donors, changes in the policy direction of donor countries and the increasing number of local-NGOs competing for the same funds. Limitation: The conclusion drawn may not be representative of all the NGOs in Ghana as they may not all have similar funding sources and challenges Contribution: The finding will serve as a guide and logical framework for existing and potential local-NGOs on donor requirements for funding.

The article analyzes the practices of two NGOs aiming to empower women through entrepreneurship in the province of East Java with the capital city Surabaya, Indonesia. Both NGOs have similar goals: to improve the well-being of women as well as to empower them in their households, communities and businesses; however, they differ in methodologies. Thus, it is thought-provoking to compare the ways and means applied by both NGOs to empower women. Their methodologies are presented and analyzed in order to capture their strengths and weaknesses, following a qualitative study that was carried out in two villages in the surrounding areas of Surabaya, Indonesia.

This research paper examines the role of Non-Government Organizations (NGO) in the use of indigenous women social entrepreneurship as a means of reducing poverty in Northern Ghana. The study focused on an Estonian NGO working in significantly poor-rural districts of Northern Ghana. The study employed case study design where face to face semi-structures interviews were used to gather data from local women entrepreneurs, NGO staff and local government officials. A sample of twenty-one (21) respondents was gathered purposefully to achieve the aim of the study. The study found out that, most poor communities in Northern Ghana are endowed with resources needed for production. What are however lacked are managerial training, financial and technical support as well as market access. Development NGOs connect indigenous resources such as raw materials, human capital and social capital together through provision of equipment and skills training to produce internationally certified products for both local and international market. The study found out that producing local products for international market increases the rate of poverty alleviation since many local people get involved and the financial returns is higher than producing for the local market. The study also identified the creation of new macro-micro international relations between the NGO's home country and the indigenous communities.

Social scientists and policy-makers are exceedingly concerned with the civil society capability to influence the stability in the European Union and member states. This ability largely depends on the role of non-governmental actors, that are of civil society interests. Aiming to submit the demands that include into the stability of integrated states, non-governmental organizations need appropriate adherence to decision-making institutions. This provision is related to the general, and contentious, issue of the non-governmental organizations engagement in political representation, participation. Regarding the European Union system, some of the other variables should be taken into consideration. The level of engagement of the social parts is the peculiar indicator of the some yardstick of integration from below, and the viabilities between civil society and Government. That is to say that the differentiated structure of the interests provided by the non-governmental organizations, the community-based organizations and the groups, together with increasing demand for greater popular involvement in the civil matters, are forced on the European Union the need to develop a more effective and integrated system with the involvement of non-state actors. Non-governmental organizations, inter alia, submit interests related to development of society. In so doing, non-governmental organizations manage relationships with different sectors through thecivil dialogue. By participating in European official programs, European non-governmental organizations have promoted many initiatives on institutional stability. This became anexcellentbeginning to the increasing non-governmental organizations more active role in European Union stability.

Answering the Cry of the Poor (ANCOP) is an NGO operatingin Canada and the Philippines. ANCOP, under the Catholic lay organization Couples for Christ (CFC) havea community development program where it builds villages for the poor and offers free housing to selected beneficiaries. It accomplishes this by drawing on donations from, among other sources, the Filipino-Canadian diaspora, utilizing its transnational networks to redistribute wealth. This raises the question of what type of local development is being constructed through such transnational philanthropy? I argue that ANCOP’s practices can be situated as a governmentalizing process that creates and enforces specific religious and middle-class subjectivities through the structures of power that are enacted by its leadership, members and benefactors. Additionally, this research highlights the role of transnational religious organizations in contributing to development in the Philippines and in creating transnational economic practices beyond individual remittances whose impact is already well known.

Diplomacy in international relations is the daily interaction between states often through the use of negotiations and discussions. Diplomacy stands accepted as the mainstay and the core process of relations among nations. The process of establishment of relations among nations begins effectively by the establishment of diplomatic relations among nations. A new state becomes a full and active member of the family of nations only after it gets recognition by existing states. The common way in which this recognition is granted is the announcement of the decision to establish diplomatic relations. Thereafter diplomats are exchanged and relations among nations get underway. As such diplomacy is the means through which nations begin to develop their relations. This act has its ancient roots firmly in Africa, the cradle of humanity. Yet the idea of “African diplomacy” is surprisingly new, because most African states are very young compared to those in the rest of the world. The legacy of colonialism, combined with the damage caused by Cold War proxy wars, has infused the continent's diplomacy with a collective memory of subjugation and marginalization. A historical context is therefore essential to understand the themes that guide Africa's contemporary diplomacy. Among these are a preoccupation with pan‐African unity, traditional cohesion, insistence on sovereign equity in the global arena, and the pursuit of elusive security and development for the continent. The diplomatic style in which these goals are pursued is predominantly multilateral and collective, marked by a unique activist‐like approach and emphasis on solidarity among incumbent leaders using a common term of brotherhood.

This short essay discusses the issue of poverty in Nepal. Despite a number of poverty-reduction programs run by a myriad of actors, poverty in Nepal is still rampant, and the country remains one of the poorest countries in the world. In this essay, I argue that many poverty alleviation programs in Nepal failed because they isolated poverty as an economic and growth problem, whereas, poverty should have been identified and tackled as a political and a human rights issue. I begin the essay by briefly sharing my own experience of poverty while growing up in rural Nepal. I, then, explore the overall poverty scenario in Nepal and analyze a few major causes and consequences of poverty in the country. After offering an overview of poverty reduction approaches in Nepal, I conclude the essay with a few recommendations intended for organizations and policymakers formulating poverty-alleviation strategies in Nepal.

The aim of the article is to prove the statement that Poverty is Habitual and Genetic. For this, several families were observed over years to fulfill the objectives. Habitual facts of the respondents were observed to understand the relationship with poverty. Daily habits which were repeating by the respondents were considered. Poverty and genetic relationship were observed. Why and how do they become poor by the influence of previous generations were explained. Finally it was concluded that Poverty is habitual and genetic.

NGOs are exceptionally assorted gatherings of associations occupied with a wide scope of
exercises, and take diverse structures in various parts of the world. Some may have
magnanimous status, while others might be enlisted for assessment exception dependent on
acknowledgment of social purposes. Others might be fronts for political, religious, or different
interests. NGOs are hard to characterize, and the term 'NGO' isn't constantly utilized reliably. In
a few nations the term NGO is connected to an association that in another nation would be called
a NPO (charitable association), and the other way around. There are a wide range of orders of
NGO being used. Open studies uncover that NGOs frequently appreciate a high level of open
trust, which can make them a valuable