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From Intelligent Funder to Intelligent Recipient: Civil Society’s Intermediary Role in Delivering Change
Civil society organisations (CSO) were traditionally considered intermediary bodies for the effective and efficient realization of funders’ vision of community or society change. In this respect and with the development of new paradigms on funding and...
Tight Belts, Tough Choices for Charities
Humanitarian organisations face tough choices if the global financial crisis affects their income, as some analysts predict. Although it is too soon to predict the full impact of the crisis on funding, some agencies told IRIN they were reviewing possible...
NGOs Pare Down in Face of Financial Crisis
Some of the biggest development and humanitarian NGOs are laying off staff or revising programmes for 2009 as their income streams flatten because of the global financial crisis. Fundraising experts of three of the world’s top NGOs – Oxfam...
Credit Crisis Rattles Civil Society
Many local civil society groups are concerned that their donations will dry up as the credit crisis takes hold in developed nations, limiting future generosity. Major development partners such as the UN may be unlikely to pull out, but local NGOs are...
Charity Coffers Face Credit Crunch
With the US going through the most significant financial restructuring since the great depression, international aid agencies and NGOs have reason to be wary, observers said. The likelihood that the US administration will need to divert up to US$700 billion...
What Happens to Aid Money?
Tired of navigating the often-secretive donor funding world, a group of international non-profits have launched the Publish What You Fund (PWYF) campaign to encourage donors to reveal timely and accessible information about how they are spending their...
China, NGOs and Accountability
A Beijing conference exploring the issues surrounding civil society and its stakeholders finds that Chinese NGOs have lessons to teach as well as learn from the west, finds Martin Vielajus. The development of civil society in the People’s Republic...
The Global Links Initiative Story
In 2003, after three years working at the Japan Non Profit Organization Center in Tokyo, I started Global Links Initiative (GLI) with a friend who was based in the United Kingdom. The idea was simple: to use Japanese and British experiences as a tool...
Shifting the Focus: What Is the Role of Grantmakers in Enabling NGO Accountability?
Until about six years ago, there seemed to be a shared consensus that nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) were a good thing – as the core of active civil societies, supporting the delivery of public services and contributing to democratic societies....
