The Concept of ‘Just Development’

NGOs want to be able to provide services to the people that cannot a lot of time provide for themselves on levels of education, health, environmental living conditions and so forth. NGOs will research and analyze information in a particular area(s) of interest and bring aide is ways that those may not be able to provide for themselves or provide services in order for them to improve.

Group B – saw the adult behaving aggressively towards the doll and then rewarded by sweets from another adult.

WORLD BANK: governments play an important role in development, but there is no simple set of rules telling them what to do.

The nongovernment organization groups monitor and improve political, economic, and social condition worldwide. NGO is an independent group that

They argue that, many thinkers within the NGO world were mostly concerned with how these organizations would “adapt to the end of the funding boom and correct its adverse effects” yet the one major issue about the scope for introducing collective self-regulation of the organizational structure and procedures had largely been ignored. Hence corporate governance for NGOs attempt to describe how this scope could help solve some problems faced by NGOs in poor countries. The article was written in the late 1998 so perhaps some of these problems have since been addressed.

A nonprofit organization, as the name suggests, is an organization that is not in the business of making money. Usually founded around a common goal or mission, they are formed in response to a social problem, in the attempt to aid a distinct public interest. According to statistics, in 2016 there are 1.6 million nonprofit companies registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (www.nccs.urabn.org, 2016).

What happens when projects and interventions undertaken by international NGOs go wrong? Although my scholarly source understands most of these organizations do not seek to do harm, nonetheless harm occurs. This article by global development believes with a few legal and regulatory frameworks setting out how communities can hold NGOs to account, and with even less support fro communities to engage in such a process, there is a significant accountability deficit at the heart of international NGOs. Here we talk about accountability in regards to how NGOs answer to donors or to the national governments of countries in which they are operating. NGOs should account for the money they spend as contracted agents of donors. And they should, of course, be working within the parameters of national regulatory frameworks and laws (although the fact that NGOs themselves often sit on the committees that draw up such regulatory systems is troubling). When development interventions go wrong, or do not work the way they were intended, it is often no one's fault, due rather to events beyond any individual or organization's control. But people's lives are affected, sometimes (as when cholera sweeps through a refugee camp) with the most tragic of consequences (Global Development). Systems for recognizing the "rights" of beneficiaries and the obligations of agencies do exist. The Sphere Project, for example, sets out in great detail the minimum standards to be expected in, say, a refugee camp. But there are few legal frameworks capable of holding NGOs to account, or setting out in detail exactly when, where and how communities might be able to hold an organization accountable for an intervention that has gone disastrously wrong (Global Development). Unless NGOs and humanitarian agencies can be legally challenged and held to account, such principles and minimum standards do not do enough to establish real

There are many non-governmental organizations that fight to protect human rights such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Rights. One you may not have heard of is Refugees International. According to their website (refugeesinternational.org), Refugees International focuses on bringing aid to displaced citizens and helps to bring attention to the problems that have caused the displacement. Refugees International was originally formed in 1979 for the purpose of assisting Indochinese refugee's. Now they assist refugees from all over the world by looking out for their best interest and ensuring their safety. They do this by having workers in the field observe the treatment and care of refugees who have been displaced for various reasons including war and conflict. They do not take any government funding, solely depending on donations (Refugees International, n.d.).

At the governmental level, the issue of poverty has become more of a corporate social responsibility but one of the more growing concerns is that initiatives focused on addressing the issues regarding poverty are not properly put in place. There are not enough advocates acting as the voices for those who cannot be heard that struggle

There are tons of non-profit organizations that have made tremendous changes in our world but are these organizations providing the essentials people need? The Human Rights Watch Organization is a coordination that was made to make the international world a more efficient place it was created by Helsinki Watch to help defend and protect human rights as well as give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. According to their website (hrw.org) this organization has helped strengthened the rights of children, women, refugees and migrant workers as well as bring up topics such as domestic violence, rape, war crime and many more to help people know more about what rights they attain. It is wise to contribute time or money to this nonprofit organization because as a human being that loves freedom and equality this organization provides the essentials needed to help people attain their rights internationally and it’s great that it was developed by people who voluntarily signed up to help achieve change for

NGOs exist independent of the governments in which they are formed and these organizations can operate in several states, or globally, depending on their mission. NGOs are endowed with a soft power. Soft power is essentially the ability to obtain their objectives by attraction instead of compulsion. Hard power is naturally not in their arsenal, but with enough funds and very little oversight, NGO activity can be a liability to any state that doesn’t conform to the ideals that NGOs subscribe to. In the case of the Arab-Israeli conflict, NGOs comprised of powerful citizens and officials are able to manipulate governmental applications of law creating negative outcomes for states like Israel who may or may not actually be acting outside of international law.

They are focusses around different areas such as health, education, jobs, welfare, etc. here we are going to restrict our discussion to role of NGO’s in the context of

Development is defined as “the process of change operating over time- the process by which countries and societies advance and become richer’’. The modern 20th century defines development as” the process of change which allows all the basic needs of a region to be met, thereby achieving greater social justice and quality of life and encouraging people to fulfill their potential’’. Todaro defines development as “the process of improving the quality of all human lives through raising people’s living standards, their incomes, consumption levels of food, medical services, education, raising people’s self-esteem through the establishment of social, political and economic systems and institutions that promote dignity and respect and increasing people’s

Many NGOs are associated with the use of international staff working in 'developing' countries, but there are many NGOs in both North and South who rely on local employees or volunteers.

P1 Explain different types and purposes of organizations; public, private and voluntary sectors and legal structures. [AC 1]