There is a growing evidence to believe that governments and NGOs have accepted reasons for 'working together as partners' and complement each other's efforts. During the last few years, South Asian states have undertaken some collaborative development interventions with a focus on health, education and income generation. As a result a number of projects with government, non-government and busin...

On February 13, 2014, a new Global Health Security (GHS) agenda was launched by more than 20 countries, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). This new effort aims to drive and coordinate action among these partners, as well as the international NGO community and the private sect...

s and Reporfs 193 paid or contract staff to assist member organizations in such areas as project proposal development, and that a documentation center be established as an information clearinghouse for and about NGOs. In addition, the conference urged governments to recognize NGOs as partners in development, encouraged NGOs to involve their target groups in decision making, and supported leader...

Starting with a brief contextual analysis of the social scenario in which the AIDS epidemic is occurring in Brazil, the article focuses on the formation of the country's first nongovernmental organizations in the struggle against AIDS. There are peculiarities to AIDS NGOs to the extent that they display an ambivalence between the characteristics of a professional institution and a lobbying grou...

BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men (MSM) are more likely to be living with HIV than other adult men in low- and middle-income countries. MSM experience barriers to accessing HIV services including a lack of available specialized care, and community-level stigma and discrimination. This study aims to examine the uptake of HIV services at non-governmental and community-based organizations (NGOs...

This paper proposes an integrated ecological, economic and social model to assist sustainable rural development in villages in Bangladesh. In the model, renewable energy technologies (RETs) create income-generating activities for male landless and marginal farmers and for women from such households, while reducing environmental problems, like deforestation and indoor air pollution from cooking ...

Are NGOs more vulnerable in crises than, for example, profit organizations, and are integrity violations (compared to competence crises) damaging non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) than organizations? In this study we address these questions using a 2x2 experimental design within the context of Situational Crisis Communication Theory. Our results show that crises. Moreover, NGO appears emer...

Many non-profit organizations (NPO) and non-government organizations (NGO) aim to address real-world problems that are evident in our society. Complex social problems such as poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, emergencies and disasters are ever-present in today’s world. Many forms of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are involved in the process of addressing the needs of collabor...

This study investigates the coverage of solid waste management on 1,142 websites maintained by companies, news media, and non-governmental organizations to validate an automated approach to content and language analysis. First, a frequency analysis of waste management terms is used to shed light on the breadth and depth of their environmental discourses, revealing that corporate and media atten...

Recently, there have been a number of Canadian-based studies of federal and provincial government policy workers. One key theme across all of these studies is the importance of well-established networks outside of government. However, these studies have demonstrated that government policy workers interact very infrequently outside the comfort of their own department cubicles. This stands in con...