Selecting a Partner for NGO in Nigeria 1. INTRODUCTION: This piece is an executive summary of the processes and steps required for selecting a winning Implementing Partner for development work. It is the first in a series meant to enrich the body of knowledge available on the topic and provide guidance to local Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) desiring to manage donor funds. Local NGOs provide the vehicle for effective intervention in their areas because of their closeness to the local communities. Faith-based organizations for example, command large followership, while community coalitions are established by the communities themselves. 1.1 LOCAL IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS (IPs) Implementing partners are Non-Governmental Organizations, Community-Based Organizations, Community Coalitions and Faith-Based Organizations that are recipient of donor funding or support to implement development intervention activities in their community or areas of coverage. They are expected to be not-for-profit organizations established with strong social network and capacity to support the intervention objective of the donor. They should have program experience and track record, with formal organizational structure, management processes and actively managed by their Trustees or Directors. 1.2 BASIS OF PARTNERSHIP: The basis of the partnership between the donor and the implementing partner may include: 1. To implement intervention activities at different levels using local NGOs. 2. To strengthen the capacity of the organization to provide quality social services. 3. To mentor and nurture such organizations into bigger players in social service delivery. 2. SYNOPSIS OF LOCAL NGO ENVIRONMENT: The development sector in Nigeria is very vibrant with a lot of NGOs registering their interest in different areas of social and economic needs. Some of the organizations are young which indicates a greater interest in development work by many. However, so many of them have low capacity and therefore require technical support and mentoring to move forward. A good number of the NGOs are providing services in areas where donor funds are available. This explains why majority are in the area of Reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to the exclusion of other sensitive areas of societal need like economic empowerment, education, drug abuse etc. Faith-based organizations established by their parent bodies to assist needy members have the largest network of branches across Nigeria, but lack large scale intervention capabilities. There is a huge skill gap in the sector. For local NGOs who have partnered donor agencies in the past, a lot of their staff has been trained in different areas, but the budget constraints of retaining such staffs, that will thereafter step-down the knowledge acquired to others is a challenge.
In the book, Half The Sky, author’s Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn bring to light the oppression of women in the developing world. Anecdotal stories, filled with sadness, anger and hope, collected after years of reporting, depict just a few examples of this global struggle for women. At the end of their book organizations are listed, in alphabetical order, in hopes of creating a starting point for people to further support women in developing countries. With so many organization doing great work to empower women it becomes difficult to decide where money should be distributed. As a grant manager it is important to take a closer look at each of the organizations and their work to better assess where the money should go. However, the
Objective 1: Improve services in the region area where the nonprofit organization is located by 40% by the end of the year. The health services within the organization needs improvement. To evaluate, we will need to determine how much funding available to improve services and to order new medical equipment. Each facility administration will keep account of the number of medical equipment supplies over the course of each year. Each facility will need to be addressed and examined to see what the needs are in each facility. To measure improve services, we will have surveys to give to the patients and families to ask how they feel bout new current healthcare services. The improve services will have better hands on medical help and quality and efficient medical technology equipment. Data will be
Historically Haiti’s government has not been a provider of services to its population. One study found that even before the 2010 earthquake, NGOs provided 70 percent of healthcare and private schools funded by NGOs accounted for 85 percent of the national education (Ramachandran, 2012, p. 2). Charities and NGOs have become t...
These organisations have evolved and grown with the people around them and have formed into the churches, groups and organisations we know today, such as the salvation army, world vision, Australian Christian churches, compassion, Australian Christian lobby, focus on the family and many others. the role of many of these organisations is to assist people all around the world and many of these organisations focus their minuses on the less fortunate and the third world countries. In this regard, the church has kept a similar role as that of the medieval period where their role was to help the less fortunate. Also, modern Christian organisations through their work provide jobs, educations a chance at a better life and many other important ministries which, if did not exist would make much of our world and the way we live foreign, through these works the modern Christian organisations we know today have kept their influence in the world and have even increased
If the federal government support the small business financially, this may result in more prospurity, and co9vergae of clinical shortage . It is important to assign deligates to persuave some banks to l begin accepting applications from financial institutions who are interested in becoming Community Advantage lenders. It is essential to lobby the government to join thousands of partnerships , and focus on health,, education and welfare. The role will be more effective if we expand the partnership globally. global funding. Global funding can be significant in building program targeting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis that are high risk from these diseases. Our focus should be focused on human development and not on energy development.
Respectable salaries, a wide range of opportunities and satisfying work abound in the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit organizations play significant roles at th... ... middle of paper ... ... REFERENCES Ahmad, M M and Townsend, J G (1998). Changing fortunes in anti-poverty programmes in Bangladesh.
Red Cross, Josea’s feed the hungry and UNICE- what do they all have in common? They are all nonprofit organizations. Throughout the world, but especially in the United States nonprofit organizations are very important and a necessity for many cities. It has become one of the main focuses for a growing amount of majors and studies for many people. With more than 8 million employees and more than 80 million volunteers in the United States alone nonprofit are some of the most important job in recent times (Drucker). The importance of many nonprofit organizations could be the difference between many people’s lives and their deaths. The importance of nonprofit organizations is growing throughout the United States day by day. The fact that nonprofits are built solely on helping the people throughout your community and neighboring communities make nonprofits important based on that fact in itself. Nonprofit provide places to sleep when maybe a family has nowhere to go or somewhere to have a hot meal. This could be someone in your family, a close friend or even a distant neighbor but in all people are people and help is help so the reasons for nonprofit being important are ongoing.
This analysis is used as a framework to evaluate UNICEF resources (tangible and intangible), skills and capacities and determine its competitive potential.
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Certainly, nonprofit organizations have been appreciated as Africa’s ‘magic artillery’. For example, for decade, it has raise our national income levels, reduce poverty, support democracy, ameliorate child mortality, enhance fertility, promote civil societies, and empowers the vulnerable (particularly women). The unfortunate setback is that African countries have had an extremely slow improvement in nonprofit educational curriculums in recent years. For instance, we have observed certain hybrid programs offered here and there in several African business schools. Relatedly, we have noticed with total dismay how African scholars have not appreciated the nonprofit education programs in our continent. A progressive education achieves two obligations: first, it interconnects different methods of teaching from various institutions to encourage a universal scholarship, as well as contribute toward fortifying global knowledge. Secondly, it raises the profile of those who are able to access education at different levels. The conclusion is that redefining, reassessing, and refocusing the nonprofit education in Africa is essential for development in Africa, however, nonprofit education policy must form an integral part of a wider society that encourages and appreciates equity in nonprofit education. For instance, a nonprofit educational equity depends on two main factors. The first is fairness, which implies that factors specific to one's personal condition should not interfere with another one’s potential for academic success. The second important factor is “inclusion,” which should be a comprehensive standard that applies to all in a certain education system (OECD.org, 2008). These two factors closely relate and depend on each other for an educational system's success. Therefore, to
The first challenge facing human resource professionals in “The War for Talent” is addressing the emerging skills gap. As stated by Lauby (2016) The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) defines the skills gap as “the gap between an organization’s current capability and those it needs,
Before attacking these NGOs, their specific contributions to environmental protections must be established. It seems that NGOs made the most significant gains at and after the Stockholm conference. They established specific practices that were aimed at protecting the environment not only at national levels, but internationally. NGOs acted as liasons between nations with alternative views. Most importantly, these NGOs were established to communicate the goals of such conferences as Stockholm and the Brundtland Commission, and to pressure cooperating nations into achieving these goals without the type of pressure that would create chaos amongst the nations.
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In this book Ferguson aims to create an understanding of the workings of the concept of development through the case study of the Thaba-Tseka Development Project. To achieve this he gives detailed accounts of the setting and conditions of the project, as well as emphasize where and how development practitioners went wrong in this particular case.
The community organizations will gift some cash for the charity to assist those people that desires it over they are doing. Also, world involvement, since this is often a world downside individuals from different country area unit ought to be attached this issue. they must succor people simply just in case this crisis happened to them, different will facilitate them out too.