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NGO ACTIVITIES

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NGO
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Nongovernmental organization (NGOs) perform activities supported by
government agencies but work outside the official structure of these
agencies. As a result, NGOs typically have freedoms to operate like
private businesses in the countries in which they operate. Their
activities can range from advocacy to nonprofit community assistance
and organizational fund-raising. An NGOs structure typically centers
on a particular mission or goal, and its activities then correspond
with meeting the interests of that mission or goal.



Building Basic Infrastructure

A common international role of NGOs involves helping with foreign
infrastructure building at the most basic level. Focused on areas
that are absolutely rural in nature, activities can include well
drilling, basic education facility construction, road building and
medical services provision. NGOs can work either in the actual
construction or just the purchase of resources and delivery to the
targeted location. The details will vary and depend on the particular
project serviced. Many such projects lie under the umbrella of a
larger NGO or government agency.



Pilot Function

Due to the flexibility to work between public and private organization
worlds, NGOs provide an ideal player to address pilot project needs
when a government wants to test a new program idea without a full-scale
program initiation. NGOs unhampered by bureaucratic limitations and
restrictions can take on such pilot projects quickly by and dismantle
them just as quickly. This ease of operation allows a government agency
overseeing the pilot project to try the idea, achieve results and make
validated decisions without excessive expenses.


Communication and Advocacy

NGOs strategize all their activities to meet a mission or goal; advocating
at multiple levels for that mission is an NGO's bread and butter. This role
includes communicating to the public, implementing education programs,
advocating politically and marketing. Communication targets can include
other governmental agencies, businesses, communities and specific individuals.
Reasons can include obtaining NGO mission support, financial campaigning and
carrying out legislative advocacy. Many times, NGOs also serve as a middle-man
communicator between government agencies and the targeted community helped by
an NGO; this sort of connection commonly occurs on pilot projects.



Raising Money

Because many NGOs are nonprofit organizations, they rely on their own revenues,
grants and donations to fund their activities. Fund-raising is an integral and
important activity that must occur regularly to keep NGOs operating annually.
Funds raised pay for personnel, resources and operating expenses. Organizational
NGOs take a formal, bureaucratic approach to fund-raising; distinct units or
sections seek funding, while others work on programmatic issues. Campaigning
NGOs are much closer to the grassroots-level, connecting fund-raising with an
idea or movement and recruiting volunteers as needed for short-term events.



NGO Activities
http://www.ehow.com/info_8104744_ngo-activities.html



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RELATED
TOPICS




About Nongovernmental Organizations
http://www.ehow.com/about_4672047_nongovernmental-organizations.html

How to Establish Your Own NGO
http://www.ehow.com/how_12020480_establish-own-ngo.html

How to Organize an NGO
http://www.ehow.com/how_8459472_organize-ngo.html

NGO Job Descriptions
http://www.ehow.com/about_6387704_ngo-job-descriptions.html

Resume Tips for Applying to an NGO
http://www.ehow.com/way_5760322_resume-tips-applying-ngo.html

How to Change your Organizational Structure
http://www.ehow.com/how_2169981_change-organizational-structure.html

Fundraising Tips for NGO
http://www.ehow.com/list_6241391_fundraising-tips-ngo.html

How to Generate Funds for a Not for Profit Organization
http://www.ehow.com/how_7622024_generate-funds-not-profit-organization.html

NGO Job Descriptions
http://www.ehow.com/about_6387704_ngo-job-descriptions.html

How to Write Documentation for an NGO
http://www.ehow.com/how_8759753_write-documentation-ngo.html

NGO Aims & Objectives
http://www.ehow.com/info_8258655_ngo-aims-objectives.html

Fundraising Tips for NGO
http://www.ehow.com/list_6241391_fundraising-tips-ngo.html

How to Build an NGO
http://www.ehow.com/how_10027860_build-ngo.html

How to Organize an NGO Launch
http://www.ehow.com/how_8561175_organize-ngo-launch.html



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NGO
PLANNING
ACTIVITIES




NGOs should develop activity plans in discussion with local people
and other collaborators, identifying who would have to do what to
achieve specific goals.

In order to contribute to other people’s efforts, NGOs’ activities
and operational goals have to respond to their priorities. Activity
plans are only as good as the dialogue and insight that generate
them.

Plans should identify who has a significant influence on achieving
goals, both allies and opponents, and what they are expected to do
to achieve them. Various planning tools provide practical ways of
doing this. They all focus on people, relationships and behaviours.

The tools generate a theory of change – describing how the NGO expects
that its actions will contribute to other people’s efforts. Common
theories of change include NGOs:


providing services that improve welfare,

building the capacity of organisations to represent people’s interests,

developing technologies that poor people will use to improve welfare,

lobbying decision makers to implement policies that benefit the poor.


In each case, results depend on what other people, outside the NGO,
decide to do. They are ‘theories’ as people’s intentions and
interactions cannot be fully predicted. Almost all NGO activities
generate unintended results. Plans set out an initial analysis to
be reviewed and improved, not taken as definitive.



Planning activities
http://ngoperformance.org/management/planning/



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NGO
ACTIVITIES
LINKS




International Guide to NGO Activities in Conflict Prevention and Resolution
http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/1226.pdf

Japan's NGO Activities and the Public Support System
http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/jp-ngoactivities.html

NGO Activities
http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=256639&sid=3292990

NGO Activities
http://gyei.org/about/ngo-activities/

NGO Activities
http://www.ngocentre.org.vn/content/ngo-activities

NGO Activities
http://fsg.afre.msu.edu/rwanda/ngoreport01.pdf

NGO Events and Activities
http://www.ngos.net/ngos/events.html

NGO Health Committee Activities
http://www.ngohealthcommittee.org/activities.html



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