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Non-Government Organisations: Challenges Faced By NGO

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NGO INTRODUCTION 1 MAIN BODY1 Challenges Faced By NGO Wanting To Work As Partner To Attain Peace, Gender Equality, Poverty And Sustainability 6 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCES 10 INTRODUCTION A non-government organisation (NGO) is a non profit, voluntary group of citizens that has been organized on a local, national or international level. Oxfam is one of the leading NGO of UK that is association of 20 independent charitable firms that work with objective of eradicating global poverty.

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1Challenges Faced By NGO Wanting To Work As Partner To Attain Peace, Gender Equality,Poverty And Sustainability.....................................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONA non-government organisation (NGO) is a non profit, voluntary group of citizens thathas been organized on a local, national or international level. These enterprises are formed bypeople who are having common interest of performing variety of social welfare activities. NGOsworks for number of specific issues such as for human rights, environment, health, poverty etc.so as to reduce or remove its negative impact on the people of society. The reports is based onthe case study of one of the largest and leading NGO of UK Oxfam that was established in 1942.The project will discuss about the role of NGO as partners of government agencies andcontributors of social change. Further, it will explain challenges that have been faced by NGOswilling to work in partnership to attain peace, gender equality, poverty and sustainability.MAIN BODY Definition of NGO An NGO is an organisation or group of individuals that are working together independentfrom any external administration who believes in certain basic social principles. These firmsstructure their activities to support international development and have humanitarian orcooperative objectives rather than profit generation as main aim (Grayson, 2014). NGOsinvolves charitable and religious associations that channelizes funds for development program,distribution of foods, family planning services, poverty eradication and promoting communityorganization. They also consist of independent cooperative societies, communityassociations,women's groups etc. that work autonomously for creating awareness among publicto participate in activities of these firms. There are few characteristics that an NGO must abideso as to registered itself as a voluntary organisation. These three features includes not to be apolitical party, must not to be a criminal group and must not have profit generation as mainmotive. Over the past decades, there have been immense increase in the number of NGOs acrossthe world. In context to UK, there are around 16,5801 voluntary organisations that providesemployment to around 63% to full time workers and 37% to part time workers i.e. total 8,53,000individuals. This voluntary sector contributes around £11.1 billion to its gross value i.e. equal to0.8% of entire UK GVA. Oxfam is one of the leading NGO of UK that is association of 20 independent charitablefirms that work with objective of eradicating global poverty. The four main areas of focus for the1
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organisation are to provide essential services, economic justice, rights in crisis and genderequality. NGO as a partner of Government and development institutionIt is important healthy to maintain relationship between objectives of government andNGO for effective community development. When the government have positive social agendaand NGO are effective, there is potential for developing a strong, collaborative relationshipamong the two parties (Battersby,Taveekan and Nimbtik, 2017). Genius partnership betweenNGO and government totally depended upon mutual respect, acceptance of autonomy andpluralism of NGO recommendations. In case of Oxfam, government of UK invested around£13.4bn in 2016. Also, government of UK last year provided bilateral aid of around £1.1bninternationally. Another areas where NGO works in partnership with government is for providing healthcare and emergency services. The government work in close collaboration with NGO who helpsin providing relief and aids to the victims or the needy people. Thus, NGO helps government toincrease coverage, improve quality of care and making it easy by making it possible for people tohave access to government relieving funds and programs. It in tern helps these voluntaryorganizations to implement their social missions by providing financial sustainability to them.Another major role of NGO as partner of government is of sustainable community development.Due to their social principles ideology, these organizations effect in reaching out to poor andremote communities and to mobilize them. For instance; Oxfam conducts various employmentgeneration programs, opens markets at international trade where it sells crafts and produce frompoorer regions at fair price (Banks and Hulme, 2012). Through its focused development work,Oxfam tries to uplift communities by making them self supporting and self reliant. Further, ithelps in empowering these communities to recover their lives and to work. Thus, it work in closecollaboration with government agencies in social and community development. Further, Government agencies can work on planning, applying, monitoring andmanaging small scale projects on the basis of recommendation and information provided byNGOs. Also, it aid government to come up with numerous policies related to women and2
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