Non Governmental Organisations Performance And Accountability

Author : Michael Edwards,David Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134171668

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Non-Governmental Organisations - Performance and Accountability by Michael Edwards,David Hulme Pdf

The last decade has seen some significant changes in international development and in the status of non-governmental organisations operating in the field. Not only has the number of NGOs virtually doubled; many of them have seen a considerable growth in their budgets, and have grown closer to governments and official aid agencies. NGOs are acknowledged by many to be more effective agents of development than governments or commercial interests ? even as a ?magic bullet? for development problems. Despite these positive trends, the real impact of the NGO sector is not well documented. This is partly because NGO performance-assessment and accountability methods are weak, and partly because NGOs are caught up increasingly in the world of official aid, which pushes them towards certain forms of evaluation at the expense of others. This unique book takes a hard and critical look at these issues, and describes how NGOs can, and must, improve the way they measure and account for their performance if they are to be truly effective.

Author : Lisa Jordan,Peter van Tuijl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136560422

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NGO Accountability by Lisa Jordan,Peter van Tuijl Pdf

As the fastest growing segment of civil society, as well as featuring prominently in the global political arena, NGOs are under fire for being 'unaccountable'. But who do NGOs actually represent? Who should they be accountable to and how? This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certification and donor-based accountability regimes, and questions whether these are appropriate and viable options or attempts to 'roll-back' NGOs to a more one-dimensional function as organizers of national and global charity. Input and case studies are provided from NGOs such as ActionAid, and from every part of the globe including China, Indonesia and Uganda. In the spirit of moving towards greater accountability the book looks in detail at innovations that have developed from within NGOs and offers new approaches and flexible frameworks that enable accountability to become a reality for all parties worldwide.

Author : Michael Edwards,David Hulme
Publisher : UADY
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1565490517

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Beyond the Magic Bullet by Michael Edwards,David Hulme Pdf

Experts review the issues of NGO performance and accountability, providing guidance through the process of NGO assessment.

Author : Zahirul Hoque,Lee Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317658412

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Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations by Zahirul Hoque,Lee Parker Pdf

With increased competition for external funding, technological advancement, and public expectations for transparency, not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations are facing new challenges and pressures. While research has explored the roles of accounting, accountability, and performance management in nonprofit organizations, we still lack evidence on the best practices these organizations implement in the areas of accountability and performance management. This book collects and presents that evidence for the first time, offering insights to help nonprofits face these new challenges head-on. Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations focuses on both conventional and contemporary issues facing nonprofits, presenting evidence-based insights from leading scholars in the field. Chapters examine the design, implementation, and working of accounting, accountability, governance, and performance management measures, providing both retrospective and contemporary views, as well as critical commentaries on accounting and performance related issues in nonprofit organizations The book's contributors also offer critical commentaries on the changing role of accounting and performance management in this sector. This research-based collection is an interesting and useful read for academics, practitioners, students, and consultants in nonprofit organizations, and is highly accessible to accounting and non-accounting audiences alike.

Author : Kemi C. Yekini,Liafisu Sina Yekini,Paschal Ohalehi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839090011

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Environmentalism and NGO Accountability by Kemi C. Yekini,Liafisu Sina Yekini,Paschal Ohalehi Pdf

It is increasingly being recognised across society that the preservation of our natural environment should shape political, economic and social policies. This book delves into the partnership of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Environmental NGOs (ENGOs), their communities, and their governmental counterparts in responding to this need.

Author : Jem Bendell
Publisher : UN
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UIUC:30112097498734

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Debating NGO Accountability by Jem Bendell Pdf

Concerns about the role and accountability of NGOs have been voiced from different quarters in recent years. Some donors, governments, corporations, and international agencies raise important questions about the effectiveness of NGO work and the legitimacy of their advocacy. Some NGOs have also recognized the need to ensure good practice in the wider voluntary sector. For this emerging agenda to lead to positive development outcomes, we need to ask what initiatives will improve the accountability of all institutions to the people whose lives they shape, and what initiatives could serve merely to undermine NGOs' useful and largely accepted role in holding business and government accountable for their actions. This publication puts democracy and human rights at the centre of the debate about NGO accountability.

Author : Andrew Podger,Tsai-tsu Su,John Wanna,Hon S. Chan,Meili Niu
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760463601

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Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability by Andrew Podger,Tsai-tsu Su,John Wanna,Hon S. Chan,Meili Niu Pdf

Designing Governance Structures for Performance and Accountability discusses how formal and informal governance structures in Australia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan may be designed to promote performance and to ensure accountability. The book presents a selection of papers developed from the Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration’s seventh workshop held in June 2017 hosted by City University of Hong Kong. Insights are provided on both current developments in the different contexts of the three jurisdictions examined, and on broader institutional and organisational theories. Chapters cover theories of organisational forms and functions in public administration, the ‘core’ agency structures used in the different jurisdictions, the structures used to deliver public services (including non-government organisational arrangements) and other ‘non-core’ agency structures such as government business enterprises, regulatory organisations and ‘integrity’ organisations. A particular emphasis is placed on the institutional arrangements the executive arm of government uses for advising on and implementing government policies and programs. Although the book explores arrangements and developments within very different political governance systems, the purposes of the structures are similar: to promote performance and accountability. This book is a companion volume to Value for Money: Budget and Financial Management Reform in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Australia (ANU Press, 2018).

Author : James Cutt,Vic Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134613380

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Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations by James Cutt,Vic Murray Pdf

This unique volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal (such as resource-providers, regulators and clients), and external (including boards, managers, staff and volunteers). Whilst most discussions of accountability focus exclusively on financial accountability, this title offers a significant contribution to a relatively untouched area by combining the treatment of both evaluation and accountability from a managerial perspective. With increased interest in the concept that nonprofit organizations must be accountable, this topical volume fills a gap in the literature that postgraduates and scholars of business studies and management will find invaluable.

Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134197576

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The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations by David Lewis Pdf

The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review of existing literature from a variety of disciplines (including management, development studies, and social policy) and provides wide-ranging examples from the author’s own practical and research experience. New to this edition: twelve new detailed case studies of NGO management issues and challenges new discussion points, lessons learned and questions for debate to guide the reader through each chapter definitions of key terms highlighted key ideas to illustrate each chapter. Revealing the distinctive organizational challenges faced by NGOs this second edition provides a fully updated and revised text that will prove invaluable to all those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary sector or development studies. Visit the Companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/978-0-415-37093-6.

Author : Anwar Shah
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821369425

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Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption by Anwar Shah Pdf

Performance based oversight and accountability can serve as an important antidote to government corruption, inefficiency, and waste. This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability. The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, network solutions to performance measurement and improvement; institutions of accountability in governance; legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability; ensuring integrity of revenue administration; the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption; and the role of parliamentary budget offices and public accounts committees.

Author : Alice Hengevoss
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783756282814

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The Accountability of International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs) by Alice Hengevoss Pdf

This thesis deals with the concept of accountability in international nongovernmental organizations INGOs). The four chapters focus on the theoretical and practical implications of a comprehensive approach to INGO accountability. Comprehensive INGO accountability goes beyond the donor-centric focus on financial accountability, and further includes outcome assessment processes and stakeholder dialog. The findings suggest that INGOs that implement such processes yield more effective programs as well as a stronger mission orientation. This implies that accountability is not merely to be understood as a necessary evil that occurs separately from the organization's core operations. Instead, comprehensive INGO accountability is integrated in organizational processes, and has the strategic value of strengthening organizational performance and mission orientation. It is based on dialog, and therefore is constructive in nature and contributes to more democratic organizational decision-making. In light of the increasingly political role of INGOs, implementing comprehensive accountability can be expected to become indispensable to ensure their organizational legitimacy.

Author : Phiroshaw Camay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Non-governmental organizations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073333978

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Principles of NGO Management by Phiroshaw Camay Pdf

Author : David Lewis,Nazneen Kanji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134051779

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Non-Governmental Organizations and Development by David Lewis,Nazneen Kanji Pdf

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are high profile actors in the field of international development, both as providers of services to vulnerable individuals and communities and as campaigning policy advocates. This book provides a critical introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and development. Written by two authors with more than twenty years experience of research and practice in the field, the book combines a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. It highlights the importance of NGOs in development, but it also engages fully with the criticisms that the increased profile of NGOs in development now attracts. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development begins with a discussion of the wide diversity of NGOs and their roles, and locates their recent rise to prominence within broader histories of struggle as well as within the ideological context of neo-liberalism. It then moves on to analyze how interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical trends and debates within development studies, before analyzing NGOs and their practices, using a broad range of short case studies of successful and unsuccessful interventions. David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji then moves on to describe the ways in which NGOs are increasingly important in relation to ideas and debates about ‘civil society’, globalization and the changing ideas and practices of international aid. The book argues that NGOs are now central to development theory and practice and are likely to remain important actors in development in the years to come. In order to appreciate the issues raised by their increasing diversity and complexity, the authors conclude that it is necessary to deploy a historically and theoretically informed perspective. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners. The format of the book includes figures, photographs and case studies as well as reader material in the form of summary points and questions. Despite the growing importance of the topic, no single short, up-to-date book exists that sets out the main issues in the form of a clearly written, academically-informed text: until now.

Author : Jennifer N. Brass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107162983

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Allies or Adversaries by Jennifer N. Brass Pdf

This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.

Author : Thomas Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351977494

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Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations by Thomas Davies Pdf

Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside better-known structures of the Global North. International contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how NGOs are influential in every prominent issue-area of contemporary International Relations evaluation of the significant regional variations among NGOs and how regional contexts influence the nature and impact of NGOs analysis of the ways NGOs address authoritarianism, terrorism, and challenges to democracy, and how NGOs handle concerns surrounding their own legitimacy and accountability. Exploring contrasting theories, regional dimensions, and a wide range of contemporary challenges facing NGOs, this Handbook will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners alike.