Role of NGOs/Civil Society Groups With the ever increasing population of India, it becomes all more important for NGO’s to come up and plug the gaps left by government. As of now, India has around 33 lakhs NGO’s in India. That amounts to 1 NGO per 400 people. A lot of times NGO’s are setup for tax evasion and misappropriation of government funds but still a large number of NGO’s do good work and there are NGO’s doing positive work in every sector. NGO’s play a huge role in nation building. 90% of India’s workforce includes self-employed and employed in unorganized sector They are focusses around different areas such as health, education, jobs, welfare, etc. here we are going to restrict our discussion to role of NGO’s in the context of …show more content…
Usually contract workers fear that if they join a union or raise voice against the employer, they would be removed from the job. And since they are living in a hand to mouth situation, it becomes all the more difficult to stand up against injustice. The helplessness was the main reason why workers tend to organize in the form of trade unions. Also this act needs to be strictly implemented else it may become futile. This may also be one of the reasons by contract workers fail to find protection against this injustice. Usually NGO’s try to help the contract workers as and when problems arise and they are not independent in nature. In fact NGO’s help to bring the problems to the surface. These organizations are the same for permanent workers as well and there is not separate body for contract workers. Basically these NGO’s are first
NGOs want to be able to provide services to the people that cannot a lot of time provide for themselves on levels of education, health, environmental living conditions and so forth. NGOs will research and analyze information in a particular area(s) of interest and bring aide is ways that those may not be able to provide for themselves or provide services in order for them to improve.
Legislation relating to employment exists to stop exploitation of workers by their employers mainly to protect the rights of their employee’s and to make sure that they have everything they need such as.
Employees think forming a trade union is a way of helping to achieve improvements in these different aspects of their work place- a trade union is a type of pressure group. Unions are representatives of employee demands at work and to challenge the management when needed therefore, are sometimes disliked. In this fast pace employers want to avoid and eliminate the waste of resources and try to utilise and maximize the productivity. Even after the past events including the formation of unions and strikes sometime business support trade union and sometime dislike
Throughout the world, there are many humanitarian organizations, there are many that we don’t know of. Some of these humanitarian programmes range from local, national to international. There will be one of each of these organizations introduced.
They argue that, many thinkers within the NGO world were mostly concerned with how these organizations would “adapt to the end of the funding boom and correct its adverse effects” yet the one major issue about the scope for introducing collective self-regulation of the organizational structure and procedures had largely been ignored. Hence corporate governance for NGOs attempt to describe how this scope could help solve some problems faced by NGOs in poor countries. The article was written in the late 1998 so perhaps some of these problems have since been addressed.
Why employees join and employers resist unions Employees usually unionize mainly of two general reasons: 1. They are not satisfied with how their employers are treating them and 2. They believe that unions can improve the condition of their work situations. If employees feel that they do not receive what they perceive as fair treatment from their employers, they can seek help from unions to obtain what they believe is equitable (Lim, Mathis, and Jackson 2010).
Alongside philanthropy, nonprofit offers a way for people to cultivate compassion and advocate altruism in society. A nonprofit is a word used by the IRS to define tax-exempt organizations that benefits the public interest at no cost. In the nonprofit sector, there are a number of ethical dilemmas that tend to decelerate the progress of these socially innovative organizations. The way majority of modern society considers nonprofit organizations harmonize with imbruted overhead. Some entrepreneurs believe that the aversion of overhead dampens nonprofits’ success in ending things like world hunger, homelessness, breast cancer, and other things residing in the realm of world
It showcases many of its fundraising activities through its child sponsorship programs ad through its shops and other campaigns on its website, as well as showcases the many programs and humanitarian crisis which it provides either financial or on the ground support for. In this sense Oxfam acts very clearly as a Northern NGO as described by Fowler as a provider of aid and resources and instructions to the South by serving as a channel for these (Fowler, 1997). Oxfam sees itself as being engaged constantly with financial and resource support where there is major needs and crisis globally. Unlike many NGO’s it is happy to describe its contributions to humanitarian aid and basic development needs as charity (Oxfam International, 2013). These seems to be a major part of its operations with over 93% of its funding going towards these self-described ‘charitable’
What happens when projects and interventions undertaken by international NGOs go wrong? Although my scholarly source understands most of these organizations do not seek to do harm, nonetheless harm occurs. This article by global development believes with a few legal and regulatory frameworks setting out how communities can hold NGOs to account, and with even less support fro communities to engage in such a process, there is a significant accountability deficit at the heart of international NGOs. Here we talk about accountability in regards to how NGOs answer to donors or to the national governments of countries in which they are operating. NGOs should account for the money they spend as contracted agents of donors. And they should, of course, be working within the parameters of national regulatory frameworks and laws (although the fact that NGOs themselves often sit on the committees that draw up such regulatory systems is troubling). When development interventions go wrong, or do not work the way they were intended, it is often no one's fault, due rather to events beyond any individual or organization's control. But people's lives are affected, sometimes (as when cholera sweeps through a refugee camp) with the most tragic of consequences (Global Development). Systems for recognizing the "rights" of beneficiaries and the obligations of agencies do exist. The Sphere Project, for example, sets out in great detail the minimum standards to be expected in, say, a refugee camp. But there are few legal frameworks capable of holding NGOs to account, or setting out in detail exactly when, where and how communities might be able to hold an organization accountable for an intervention that has gone disastrously wrong (Global Development). Unless NGOs and humanitarian agencies can be legally challenged and held to account, such principles and minimum standards do not do enough to establish real
There are many non-governmental organizations that fight to protect human rights such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Rights. One you may not have heard of is Refugees International. According to their website (refugeesinternational.org), Refugees International focuses on bringing aid to displaced citizens and helps to bring attention to the problems that have caused the displacement. Refugees International was originally formed in 1979 for the purpose of assisting Indochinese refugee's. Now they assist refugees from all over the world by looking out for their best interest and ensuring their safety. They do this by having workers in the field observe the treatment and care of refugees who have been displaced for various reasons including war and conflict. They do not take any government funding, solely depending on donations (Refugees International, n.d.).
Non-profit organizations have been in existence in the United States since the 1950’s but grew and expand in the public sector in the 1970’s. Prior to nonprofits there were charitable and philanthropic organizations and associations going as far back as the 1800’s. These organizations were instrumental in addressing social ills and that of the poor and destitute. For example, many organization that reached out to families in need and orphans are still in existence today under the auspices as a nonprofit legal entity.
At first we need to know what labor unions are. They are organizations that will be and act like the voice of all their members in their labor market. Their sole purpose is to allow their members to be allowed to bargain collectively with any workplace mischief. The thing is that it is getting harder and harder for employees to even have the opportunity to join these democracy-seeking organizations. “Currently, only about 9 percent of employees in the private sector have joined or are members to a trade union.” (Epstein, 2009) When it comes to this small amount it is because of two things and they are that the employers would threaten all their workers about joining these organizations and with all the new existing laws that are
The question why nonprofit organizations exist can be answered in various forms, depending on which disciplines and orientations one has adopted. In political theory, for instance, nonprofit exists because of its partnership with the government sector in financing a variety of public services. The political scientists view both existences in relations to providing opportunities for civic participation in the pluralistic and political system of a heterogeneous society (Wikipedia, 2017). In order to respond to the above question, we first and foremost defined democratic political participation. The democratic political participation is a means by which a person contributes to a political process by making his or her opinion and beliefs known (Wikipedia, 2017). In addition, it originates from the freedom to speak out, to assemble, and to associate (Boris, 2017).
The UN has many different agencies and programs. One of the most important is UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
Many NGOs are associated with the use of international staff working in 'developing' countries, but there are many NGOs in both North and South who rely on local employees or volunteers.