NGOs AND GOVERNMENT WORKING TOGETHER

NGOs and Government Working Together

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NGOS and Government Working Together

NGO partnership with government is not a latest phenomenon; however, the challenges still exist in maintaining this partnership. The reduction in government findings and rules regulation has provided several complexities in achieving goals. This is the reason several NGOs has done their partnership with the giant corporations, they are helping them to achieve the goals of the organization. Although it has seen that NGO partnerships have several challenges, both the partners have different policies and capacities.

There have been ups and downs in governmental and NGO cooperation wherever NGOs have operated. In most situations, significant and lasting development can only be created through cooperation between the two. NGOs may be better equipped to kick start development because much of the international funding is channelled through them, but governments are the ones with the power to make the development sustainable. One of objectives is to empower local populations, which can often cause conflict with the government due to a need for hierarchies which preserve order. What NGOs need to do is find a way to support the government in its developmental efforts, while not compromising the NGO's legitimacy in the eyes of the public (Mack, 1999).

Defining the NGOs is a difficult task because the definition varies from the structure and the place where these NGOs are operating. The NGOs and government collaboration is important as he NGOs cannot succeed without sufficient funding and legal accessibility. NGOs are the voluntary organizations that help themselves and work for the betterment of people at regional, national and also at international level (ODA, 1990, pp.81). In other words NGOs are the formal organizations formed by the collaboration and organization of group of people in a social unity having an objective to understand each other duties and formulate the policies that will help develop the relations among the organizational members (Frantz, 1987, pp.121-127).

NGOs are the organizations existed long before there were governmental agencies that serve as a group of people working for the mutual protection.

In order to bring improvement on the society and to maintain the healthy relationship, a need exists that all the parties must be operating on a common objective. For example if the commitment that government shows towards the poverty reduction is of weak nature, NGOs might face difficulties in having dialogue and collaboration with the governmental institutions and other donor agencies (Tandon,1987). A potential for positive collaborative relation exist between partners where the government and the donor agencies have a positive social agenda and the NGOs are of effective nature. It means a genuine relation among the partners is necessary with consent of mutual respect and betterment for all.

In order to work in partnership with the government agencies, major development institutions such as bilateral and multilateral donors, and/or as contributors to a global social change movement, these NGOs have to deal with a number of challenges and the analysis of these challenges along with a ...