Purpose: Members’ knowledge is the most important resource in NGOs and it is important to stimulate it’s exchange. Knowledge that is needed to act in complex situations is hard to exchange, but Web 2.0 technologies provide a toolbox to develop a knowledge management strategy. The paper aims to specify optimal conditions and necessary measures that NGOs should take in order to successfully use W...

Using original Ugandan data collected by the authors, we examine the determinants of funding to local NGOs. We …nd that success in attracting grants from international donors depends mostly on network e¤ects. In contrast, NGOs that raise in-kind resources locally tend to be young NGOs managed by someone who is simultaneously employed elsewhere. We …nd some evidence of crowding-out: NGOs that re...

Globalisation is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the form of economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so forth. On the other hand, there are vast amounts of casualties from its progress, which only benefits some groups or countries. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in Indonesia have established themselv...

PREFACE This is the first draft of a study on the NGO sector commissioned by the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda. To our knowledge, it is the first study of its kind in the developing world. The idea of a study of the NGO sector in Uganda was first proposed by a group of NGOs during the preparation of the first Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC), the aim of which is to improve publi...

BACKGROUND The number of nongovernmental organizations working on AIDS has grown. There is great diversity in the type of activities and population groups that have been targeted. The purposes of this study are: to describe and analyze the objectives and HIV-AIDS preventive activities that are carried out by the AIDS-NGOs that work with AIDS in Catalonia and that receive subsidies from the Depa...

Using original survey data, we document the activities, resources, and governance structure of NGOs operating in Uganda. The NGO sector is funded primarily by international non-governmental organizations and bilateral donors. We …nd large di¤erences in size and funding across NGOs, with only a few NGOs attracting most of the funding. Most NGOs are small and underfunded and focus on raising awar...

HIV incidence is rising more rapidly in some areas of Central and Eastern Europe than anywhere else in the world. Carrying out effective HIV prevention programs requires the presence of "bridges" that can reach community populations most vulnerable to the disease. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are in a natural role to conduct HIV prevention programs. The Directors of 29 HIV prevention NG...