NGO's

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:01:25 +0100

THE EFFECT OF GLOBAL RECESSION ON NON-GOVERMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOs)

An NGO is an organisation that is not initiated by government or the state that generally have goals that are non-commercial. The term NGO is very broad and can include anything thus, in some instances they may be referred to as Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO). The main aim of NGOs is to emphasize humanitarian issues, developmental aid as well as sustainable development. Due to the fact that they are primarily non-commercial in nature, they get partial funding from government as well as private sources such as businesses, public in general as well as from fundraising events. NGOs can evolve from providing immediate needs and want for societies, focusing on local development to servicing needs of societies internationally.

Every day we are bombarded with information on the financial crisis facing the world. The United Nations has also acknowledge its major impact, especially in developing countries as it will result in regression of progress made in alleviating poverty in most of these countries.

The effects of recession include price hikes, high interest rates which usually results in less production.

How does this affect NGOs

The NGOs most affected by global recession are those who focus on providing humanitarian aid especially poverty alleviation for Southern countries such as Africa. Issues of sustainability are thus raised. NGOs have been rated as poor in terms of finding creative ways to sustain themselves, thus a lot of these organisations face closure as a result. For sustained funding, NGOs are advised to form good corporate relationships with local companies to ensure sustained funding. This shows pro-activity from the side of NGOs.

The analogy behind funding NGOs is that you give when you have abundance. As much as NGOs are non-governmental in nature, there are still ties between the 2 entities with regard to funding. The business sector also has ties with the government as they are obliged to fund NGOs. This is executed in 3 ways. The first is progressive taxation, where private companies are taxed higher rates as they have high income. The more companies are taxed, the more money the state has to provide funding for government-dependent NGOs. The second is based on social corporate investment where companies are expected to donate to NGOs as a benefit, get taxed less. Thirdly is tax from the general public where individuals are taxed based on their income and a portion of the money is used to fund government-dependent NGOs.

As can be seen, global recession affects funding for NGOs at all these levels. When the economy is doing well, the government get more money from progressive taxation as a result, more money for NGOs. Social Corporate investment is also affected as companies now have to have money in reserve to sustain themselves during these trying times. This results in less money being left off for NGOs. At individual level, global recession is accompanied by high rates of job losses as companies are facing closure, or have less production. This results in less people having an income and less tax being collected. Furthermore, people do not have money to donate to NGOs as they may be focused on saving and servicing their debts. Global recession does compromise the sustainability of NGOs.

Danny Junior vann

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:44:59 +0100

This project takes the name of the Country in which it is held for example when it took place in Botswana the project was named PAB, in Namibia it was named PAN in Zambia and Zimbabwe it was named PAZ.

We have rest our main objectives to two as though we will be there to ascertain that impoverishment will be a priority too. Priority number one is giving an education or technical skills and our second priority is to give this project a blow and take it all over Africa and educate ourselves thus creating an African dream, “for with a good education Africans can surmount thus making poverty a tale beginning with once upon a time in Africa” says the Founder & Director of PASA Mr. Danny Junior Vann.

With the pinch of the global financial crisis more and more NGO`s/ NPO`s are facing closure for these organizations are donor dependant then again there is financial abuse I would say or call it externalization. It is by so doing that we as PASA are fervent to fund raise, sweat / work for the funds we shall use to make a change that all South Africans will effectively feel. In retrospect to all the projects that we hold our heads high as an organization that is not and will not be donor dependant it is in this regard that we have designed a Magazine that various CSI`s in organization will place their advertisements and with those adverts we will channel the funds raised to its appropriate use by so doing this magazine keeps CSI`s in South Africa involved then again it maintains our position as an Organization that is not known by CSI`s for a sequential influx of sponsorship proposals.

The PASA magazine will not deal / work with Corporate Social Investments only we are open to any Organization that would love to support our cause / project by placing advertisement in our Magazine.

Our biggest fundraiser shall be a Beauty Pageant named Miss PASA, we are basically introducing an emissary to the underprivileged and impoverished in South Africa. The runner up of the beauty pageant or the Queen will act or work as a representative to the SA community thus all there will be various live broadcast on television and on radio as a means of getting the community involved as to address the immediate issues of impoverishment bearing in mind our main objective which is education to build a better nation.

We as PASA have done our research and looked into the fact that most NGO`s have nursed poverty by only giving food, clothes and blankets that of which factually speaking a family that is assisted with the above mentioned is still left in a position of wanting more, given that that family is given an education or a member of that family and in two to three years time that leaves this family in a position of being able to sustain themselves and educating one another thus alleviation of poverty and not the nursing of poverty for social grants do not guarantee sustenance of that family in the next few years to come.

We are advocating for education as a means of poverty alleviation though we are not advocating to the eradication of the social grant for it provides / gives a balance as to poverty alleviation by nourishment of the underprivileged and impoverished consequently dressing them thus providing a semi comfort zone in a mentaphysical way.

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NGO's

THE EFFECT OF GLOBAL RECESSION ON NON-GOVERMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOs)

Danny Junior vann