How much do you think the directors of NGO's should be paid?
Do you think that running costs should be minimized and that full accounting details should be disclosed?
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Disclosed to who? General public or their donors?
And what do you mean with 'running costs'? Running costs are the costs necessary to run the project, and, I think, should not be minimized. Overhead costs and administration costs should be minimized I think.
And what do you mean with 'running costs'? Running costs are the costs necessary to run the project, and, I think, should not be minimized. Overhead costs and administration costs should be minimized I think.
Well, almost everything (non-government) is an NGO. What type of NGO are we talking about here?
As much as some salaries and bonuses gall (gaul?) me, if it is a private enterprise, it is their business to pay what they want and charge what the market will bear.
Let's get some more details going......
As much as some salaries and bonuses gall (gaul?) me, if it is a private enterprise, it is their business to pay what they want and charge what the market will bear.
Let's get some more details going......
Already posted it somewhere else... quite interesting reading.
from Chapter 8: Conservation Empire - A Case Study of African Wildlife Foundation of Wildlife is Our Oil: Conservation, Livelihoods and NGOs in the Tarangire Ecosystem, Tanzania, thesis by Hassanali Thomas Sachedina, University of Oxford, 2008
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AWF has successfully transformed itself from an important regional player into an organisation with continental ambition, with relationships with donors and government scaling up in proportion to its goals and funding needs. My argument is that this transformation has had a number of profound consequences for the work and practices of the organisation. I believe that the relationships with donors and the government have effectively reduced AWF‘s grass-roots accountability. As a result, AWF‘s actions have increasingly contributed to pastoral poverty and disempowerment.
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This chapter charts the history, development and internal politics of AWF, its relationship to donors and accountability to government. It examines how these relationships have altered the organisation‘s financial and operational culture and affected the organisation‘s accountability to its beneficiaries.
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This chapter charts the history, development and internal politics of AWF, its relationship to donors and accountability to government. It examines how these relationships have altered the organisation‘s financial and operational culture and affected the organisation‘s accountability to its beneficiaries.
from Chapter 8: Conservation Empire - A Case Study of African Wildlife Foundation of Wildlife is Our Oil: Conservation, Livelihoods and NGOs in the Tarangire Ecosystem, Tanzania, thesis by Hassanali Thomas Sachedina, University of Oxford, 2008
QUOTE (sniktawk @ Jan 27 2010, 09:55 AM) 
How much do you think the directors of NGO's should be paid?
Do you think that running costs should be minimized and that full accounting details should be disclosed?
Do you think that running costs should be minimized and that full accounting details should be disclosed?
It appears that my question has not been fully understood.
I think the first part is OK.
I will elaborate on the second part should NGO's disclose to the public the amount of donations received, the projects to which grants/donations have been made to projects, and the salaries of its directors and staff, and any other running costs.
There's a lot about running costs and accounting details in the above mentioned paper.
QUOTE (nyama @ Jan 28 2010, 08:38 AM)
There's a lot about running costs and accounting details in the above mentioned paper.
There maybe, but I want to know why this sort of disclosure is not easily available for all NGO's?
I think it is to the parties concerned (ie donors).
Small donations are often done for a particular project and used for that particular project. For a lot of NGOs their year report is publicly available, and for the donors too.
A NGO often has multiple donors, who all demand their own report and so do the governmental bodies they often work with.
I think that there is a lot more publicly available than you think, it's only not that easily found, and not in a single short report, you rather have to read multiple reports from multiple organisations to get the complete picture.
Why should they disclose everything to the general public (and thus create even bigger administration costs)?
Small donations are often done for a particular project and used for that particular project. For a lot of NGOs their year report is publicly available, and for the donors too.
A NGO often has multiple donors, who all demand their own report and so do the governmental bodies they often work with.
I think that there is a lot more publicly available than you think, it's only not that easily found, and not in a single short report, you rather have to read multiple reports from multiple organisations to get the complete picture.
Why should they disclose everything to the general public (and thus create even bigger administration costs)?
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