The poor of the land does not need charity; what they access to equal opportunities and levelling of the playing field so that they can also compete in the market-place on an equal footing. It is the capacity-building, not income transfers, that can transform the lives of the poor. Only the grass root movement reach the poorest of the poor. Government projects face great difficulty in targeting such groups. The poorest section of the society needs to be organised into viable groups, which can of their own development as a community. And this is where the NGO's come in with of civil society organisations or non-governmental organisations to chalk out programmes and projects targeting community problems.
The society initiatives for community development is still in its infancy in our part of the world. is only fair to recognise the fact that all NGO's efforts are not motivated by the community itself. Self-interest is an important motivation too. In fact, many NGO's reflect the personal ambitions of some a cynical effort to exploit the generosity of foreign donors or the patronage of the Government. of more than 2 lakhs of NGOs//Trustus/ formally registered in India, there are only a few credibility and standing. A thorough, in-depth evaluation of NGO activities in India can easily prove the their working.
Going through the history of the development of NGO's, it becomes evident that there has been an impressive growth of civil society organisations and NGO's only in the recent decade. There are well NGO's in the region today. Out of these, 25,000 are in India, 10,000 in Pakistan,3000 in 19,0000 in Bangladesh, and some 30,000 in Sri Lanka. Some of these NGO's are quite small only exists on papers.
The range of NGO activities varies from one country to the other. In of the NGO's are committed to programmes for women development. In fact, several civil society efforts now target women as a preferred group. NGO's enjoy a great advantage over government programmes in displaying much greater for Government projects. The long term sustainability of any NGO's effort is ensured only if it mobilise resources from its beneficiaries, and if it is operated on the principle of self-help.
Several successful suffered because of their over-dependence on foreign donors support or on financial assistance from their own if an NGO is based only for the purpose of extracting money from the donors, then cannot continue to fool them for a long time and can't expect them to play the money minting machine. The failure of many NGO's in our part of the world is due to such personal preferences and ambitions to become richer using the name of community development. And then the direct relationship between foreign donors and NGO's leads to a certain degree of tension with governments. Foreign grants are often scarce and this becomes the cause of a rift between government and NGO's. Moreover government cannot have for accountability reason, into the financial affairs of any NGO. This in fact increases the risk of exploitation and misuse of funds granted by the donors for the cause of community development. And with interference, some NGO's have played havoc with the resources provided by the donors.
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