B.PRINCE SOLOMON

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK

MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

ROLE OF NGOs IN SOCIO - ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT

India has possibly the largest number of active non-government, not-for-profit organizations in the world. recent study commissioned by the government put the number of such entities, accounted for till 2009, at 3.3 million. That is one NGO for less than 400 Indians, and many times the number of primary schoo.ls and primary health centre's in India.

The number of NGOs registered under FCRA would be less than 2 per cent of the total NGOs.

NGO Partnership system, http://ngo.india.gov.in

BACKGROUND

Participating Ministries/Departments/Government Bodies:

Ministry of Culture Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Ministry of Tribal Affairs Ministry of Women & Child Development Department of Higher Education Department of School Education & Literacy National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Tech

nology (CAPART) Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) Department of Youth Affairs

NGO PARTNERSHIP WITH……

NGOs are private, voluntary organizations serving a social purpose

NGOs are formal organizations within the citizen sector (or civil society), having a social purpose

Governments rely on authority to achieve outcomesPrivate sector firms rely on market mechanisms to

provide incentives for mutually beneficial exchange In contrast, civil society actors utilize independent

voluntary efforts to promote their values and aspects of social, economic, or political development

NGOs are the equally important third leg of the stool on which development and poverty reduction rests

NGOs are steadily growing in prominence

 1) Trust 2) Society 3) Section-25 Company  Additional Licensing/ Registration

charitable purpose’ to include ‘relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility’. A purpose that relates exclusively to religious teaching or worship is not considered as charitable.

Formation and Registration of a Non -Profit organizations in India…..

EMPOWERMENT APPROACHSUSTANABILITY APPROACH

NGOs APPROACH TO HUMAN WELFARE…..IN INDIA

•CHARITY APPROACH

•WELFARE APPROACH

•DEVELOPMENT APPROACH

•EMPOWERMENT APPROACH

•SUSTAINABLE APPROACH

•NEW WORLD ORDER APPROACH

Violence Religious violenceTerrorism/Naxalism Caste related violenceOverpopulationEconomic issuesPoverty CorruptionIlliteracy

SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES IN INDIA

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS

NGO Aid

•N

GO

A

ID

Socio Economic Conditions

•F

OO

D

Food •

SH

ELT

ER

Shelter

•F

INA

NC

IAL

H

EL

P

Financial Help

•H

EA

LT

H F

AC

ILIT

Y

Health Facilities

•E

DU

CA

TIO

NEducation

•E

MP

LO

YM

EN

T

Employment

FIELD BASEDAREA BASEDADMINISTRATIVE BASEDINSTITUTIONALIZATION CARE Vs

COMMUNITY CAREQUANTITY Vs QUALITYPPPCSR

NGO RESPONSE…….

NGOs and CBOs have comparative advantages in intermediate goods, situated between these poles

But “voluntary failures” can also prevent the citizen sector from realizing these comparative advantages in practice. Examples:

1. Institutionalization, causing loss of flexibility and participation

2. Goal deflection: displacement of ends by means, e.g. fundraising

VOLUNTARY FAILURES

3.Minority rule, in which NGO priorities reflect their own organizational origins rather than their participants’ priorities

4. Ineffectuality, or “philanthropic amateurism”

5. Philanthropic insufficiency, due to limited scale and resources

6. Philanthropic particularism, reflecting NG

CONT…..

INDIA CANOT SURVIVE WITHOUT NGONGO PARTNERSHIP WILL BE THE KEY TO

SUCCESSHUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS (HDI)

AND MILLIENIEUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS(MDG)

ACCOUNTABILITY – FINANCIAL/MORAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION E.G. TSUNAMI

CONCLUSION