The growth of the humanitarian aid industry has led to the proliferation of relief programs and the rapid rise in the number of relief personnel working in the field. One major necessity in developing successful international programs is appropriately trained field personnel. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the educational practice and training methods for field workers by non-governm...

Indonesia used to have one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in both the southeastern Asian region and globally. With efforts from the government and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the past two decades have witnessed considerable improvements in maternal and child health in Indonesia. Here, we examine the current status of maternal and child health in Indonesia and perti...

The researcher in this study tested the null hypothesis which is as follows: International funding of projects to Palestinian non-government organizations (NGOs) and social causes has strengthened the development of social capital in the West Bank. The study groups are paid and non-paid volunteers, and leaders of NGOs which were selected randomly. The researcher used two methods of data collect...

As millions of immigrants moved to Hong Kong (HK) from China in the recent decades, large amount of residential housings were built in the early years and a substantial proportion of those buildings used asbestos-containing materials (ACMs). Since the number of new cases of ARDs diagnosed has increased year by year since 1990's, the remarkable increase of incidences had drawn the attention of t...

formation of non-governmental organizations is in order to realize the citizenship rights and support the legitimate demands of their and in line with the needs of human societies . realization this goal has several conditions that among the most important is to maintain the independence of these organizations. how to establish, supervision and dissolution of the organizations and the degree of...

The term, "non-governmental organization" or NGO, came into currency in 1945 because of the need for the UN to differentiate in its Charter between participation rights for intergovernmental specialized agencies and those for international private organizations. At the UN, virtually all types of private bodies can be recognized as NGOs. They only have to be independent from government control, ...

The article presents an analysis of the real participation Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in local government and their interaction with authorities. Particular attention is paid to such areas as access information, political initiatives, public criticism, control, self-government, volunteer movement, etc. In course study, author conducted a sociological survey, results which ...

background: developing cities like khulna, the third largest metropolitan city in bangladesh, have now begun to confess the environmental and public health risks associated with uncontrolled dumping of solid wastes mainly due to the active participation of non-governmental organizations (ngos) and community-based organizations (cbos) in municipal solid waste (msw) management. methods: a survey ...