All too often, the involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS in AIDS NGOs is tokenistic rather than meaningful. This article, which is based on a presentation by Chistophe Cornu (abstract WeOrG1292), demonstrates that, under the right conditions, the involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS can be beneficial both for the individuals and for the NGOs. The article describes the beneficial impa...

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...

Amid widespread calls for NGOs to become more accountable and transparent, this work examines the prevalence of discrepancies between what NGOs say and what they do. It does so using a unique dataset of 300 NGOs in Uganda with corresponding beneficiary assessments. Investigating NGO dishonesty with regards to financial transparency and community participation, the study finds a high incidence o...

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...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to describe HIV prevention programs conducted by nongovernmental organizations (NGO) that are meeting this challenge. METHODS One NGO undertaking HIV prevention programs was evaluated in each of the 23 countries participating in the Global AIDS Intervention Network (GAIN) Project throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. A two-stage selection process...

The OK Study Centre is a nationwide liberal adult education provider that specialises in training NGOs and associations. It is maintained by an umbrella organisation of 67 Finnish NGOs. In spring 2012, as part of its development programme sponsored by the Finnish National Board of Education, the study centre conducted a survey of training and skills needs in its member NGOs and their regional o...