ROLE OF NGO’S IN SOCIAL UPLIFTMENT FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY
NGO’S
Non-profitable or non-governmental organization, run by task oriented people of common interest. They work with agenda of helping people to come out with self-sustainable socio-economic programs with the difference of levels at which they work. They are working with varying types such as Community-based organizations, Intermediaries and Support/International NGOs. They are mobilizing local people and resources to support projects with a purpose to enable people to improve quality of life. The NGOs of all levels are playing a role in uplift of society in general and poorest of the poor in particular. They are the product of the perceived and demonstrated failures of the state-tied traditional model of development organization. Always active in Educational, Public Policy, Health care, Social mobilization and many other sectors to bring changes according to objective. They can serve as a mean of creating shared goals, strategies and best practices.
MODEL OF IDEAL NGO IN A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY
Works with following objective
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF NGO’S IN A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY.
Following are some major causes of incompetence in NGO sector.
Challenges faced by NGO’s (Reasons For lack of Functioning)
Poor Governance is very much highlighted within NGO sector, as NGO councils and individual NGO’s are facing difficulties due to lack of Governance and Management. Role of NGO boards and their function is still unknown.
Few NGOs have strategic plans which would enable them to have ownership over their mission, values and activities. However most of local NGO’s working without setting objectives, on the other hand INGO’s have their certain set of specific objectives with vested agendas unfavorable to state.
NGO leaders faced the interference of local politicians and civic leaders as a major hindrance to their work. They are restricted to work in specific areas without involving in Political affairs. There are only few governments made support policies but obstacles like bureaucratic procedures and political instability which does not allow NGO’S to proceed in right directions.
Many NGOs are still focusing upon the ‘hardware’ approach to development, (i.e.) the building of infrastructure and the provision of services; rather than the ‘software’ approach of empowering people and local institutions to manage their own affairs. As a result of which there is a lack of sustainability and ownership of development interventions by NGO’s.
Need for NGO’S to work for Social Sustainability: Civil society has been seen as important contributor to constructive social change, thus NGO’S can build-up successful civil society.
Reasons:
The road map for the effective working of NGOs with Government and Private Sectors to meet the requirements is explained below:
Selecting that project that can meet the criteria of Government and Ngo’s at a time. Thus the state is responsible to meet the needs of the project with its resources, links and funds. However Ngo’s is responsible for planning and implementation of Projects. Commitment and collaboration of both of them can further help to meet success.
In the projects of Social development, commitments of all respective sectors are involved. Thus from Government on higher level to Individual on lower level all the sectors including local and private bodies are more or less involved.
For example: The progress achieved by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh owes much to the fact that it had a high-profile commitment shown by the Grameen Trust.
The local NGOs have great potentials in leading on the ground by advising on local priorities, contributing contacts, and offering a link to government and the local NGOs.
Small or medium-sized projects need to be packaged to attract investor interest as well as can engage government. Larger projects have their own dynamism. Smaller ones have disproportionately higher contract costs and political risks. Thus setting smaller packages on a proper platform with help of Government and private sectors can make them more effective.
The public sector administration culture, being procedure/process driven and time taking and the NGOs' voluntary culture, being missionary zeal driven, are fundamentally different. Therefore, the culture and working style of the two sectors should be reconciled in the greater benefits of masses. The government and Ngo’s both have immense potentialities in their ways thus the Partnership having the basis of shared ownership, as well as responsibility makes a task successful.
NGOs are emerging from their limited scale of operation; the infrequent efforts of NGOs can be utilized and made more effective. Still the primary role of NGO is at the local level as mobilizing the people and their resources for an indigenous Self-Sustainable development, and at this level it can be a pioneer, mediator power broker, catalyst and has many other roles to be performed.The sector will have to increase the level of transparency they operate with thus they have to publish Sustainability reports on their investments in society and environment.
NGOs need to re-establish neutral grounds between state and public, with long-term vision and far-sighted planning to identify and address the problems of citizens, to make a SELF-SUSTAINABLE STATE to make it more effective, transparent and accountable.
