Striking a Balance : A Guide to Enhancing the Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Development

ISBN-13: 9781853833250 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 312 str.

Alan Fowler

Opis

At a time of rapid global change, NGOs involved in international development are confronted with demands to simultaneously increase the scale of their impact, diversify their activities, respond to long-term crises and improve their performance. This book describes five factors which influence effectiveness: suitable organizational design; competent leadership and human resources; appropriate external relationships; mobilizations of high-quality finance; and the measurement performance coupled to learning for leverage. The author highlights the need for NGOs to retain their non-profit values, establish the right type of professionalism, manage dilemmas and make difficult choices which continually affect the priorities, rights and needs of those who give them legitimacy.

Spis treści

Introduction * Part I: NGDOs in International Development * Understanding International Development * Understanding Development NGOs * Part II: Making NGDOs Effective * Organising Non-Profits for Development * Enabling and Empowering NGDO People * NGDOs are not Islands: Making Relationships Effective * Mobilising Financial Resources * Assessing Development Impact and Organisational Performance * Part III: Improving and Moving On * Improving Performance: Process and Method in Developing NGDO Capacity * Future in the Balance: the NGDO Horizon and Beyond * Index

O autorze

Alan Fowler has been working with NGDOs for over 20 years as a manager, consultant, donor, wirter, researcher, and as a Visiting Fellow at the World Bank and the Society for Participatory Research in Asia. In 1991, he co-founded the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC).