One important discussion circulating in non-government organisation (NGO) literature relates to the increasing advocacy role of international NGOs and the political dilemmas that emerge at the nexus of North/South NGO relations. In other words how do "Northern" NGOs act as advocates for "Southern" peoples and not duplicate the wider impositions of a world divided by economic power and influence...

The budgets of development NGOs have risen dramatically over the last decades. In stark contrast to bilateral donors, the geographic choices of NGOs remain virtually unexplored. Using a new dataset and Lorenz curves, this paper shows that NGOs are very active in some countries and hardly active in others. A clustering of NGO activity takes place in UN-labelled high priority countries, but ample...

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) marks a unique point in the history of global health governance. This convention produced the first legally binding treaty under the auspices of the World Health Organization. Another first was the extent to which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) participated in the negotiation process. This article explores the relationship between one gr...

In Pakistan, NGOs are growing in number and size and getting place for themselves as the third sector of society. The reasons of NGOs becoming a third sector side by side the state and business sectors are attributed to the ineffectiveness of state apparatus and failure of business in providing the effective development mechanism at grass root level. In Pakistan where socio-economic indicators ...

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have, over the past decades, come to play a central role in international environmental negotiations. While this growing NGO participation has attracted considerable academic interest, scant attention has to date been paid to the strategic decisions of NGOs before and during actual negotiations: When do they decide to become active in international politics...

This paper examines the changing form of NGOs in Eastern Europe as they face challenges of democratic consolidation in an organizational environment increasingly permeated by universally available information technologies, unprecedented collaboration opportunities and complex technological change. We examine how NGOs’ potential for developing an innovative capacity is linked to their use of int...

A major aspect of Open Systems’ network management is the inter-working between distinct Management architectures. This paper details the development of a generic object oriented application level gateway that achieves seamless coexistence between OSI and SNMPv1 management systems. The work builds upon the Network Management Forum’s ‘ISO/CCITT and Internet Management Coexistence’ activities. Th...

Social media use has gained prominence in the public as well work environment a way of quickly and widely sharing information its crucial role management been elevated even more by covid-19 pandemic which severely limited human physical interaction. This study was carried out to explore sociodemographic factors adoption social tool among managers administrators selected Non-Governmental Organiz...

Adherence is integral to improving and maintaining the health and quality of life of people living with HIV. Two-hundred HIV-positive adults recruited from teaching hospitals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Rio de Janeiro City were assessed on socio-demographic factors, adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and psychosocial factors hypothesized to be associated with ART. Predic...