ROLES OF NGO

ROLE OF NGOS IN INDIA

• Government bureaucracy has to
work on the basis of rigid rules
and regulations. Voluntary
organizations are more flexible
in their approaches and are
work oriented rather than rule-
oriented.
• Voluntary organizations have the
right kind of commitment and
dedication to work for the poor.
They are more responsive to the
needs and aspirations of the poor.
Government bureaucracy is more
impersonal and self-interested.
• NGOs as the third sector have the skill
and motivation to organize and motivate
people at the grassroots level. They have
been successful in organizing the poor in
rural and urban areas to pursue their self-
development fight for their rights and
apply pressures on government.
• Many alternative ways of organizing
development works become
possible when there are many
voluntary organizations engaged in
development activities. Voluntary
agencies, therefore, open up
possibilities of new experiments in
social development work
 ROLES OF
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
• Voluntary organisations perform the traditional
role of delivery of services to the deprived and
underprivileged sections of the society.
 ROLES OF
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
• Another major role of VOs is the ‘watchdog’
role which is more fundamental for social
development. These include prevention and
misuse of governmental authority and
economically powerful interests in perpetuating
social injustices and arresting the trends of
inefficiency and non-accountability of public
administration.
 ROLES OF
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS

• The third major role of VOs is

cooperating with government
agencies or supplementing
their efforts in the
implementation of their
programmes
• To supplement the government’s efforts in
offering the rural poor choices and
alternatives;
• To be the eyes and ears of the people at the
village level;
• The third major role of VOs is cooperating
with government agencies or
supplementing their efforts in the
implementation of their programmes.
FACILITATING COMMUNICATION:
•  NGOs can facilitate communication upward
from people to the government and
downward from the government to the
people.
- Communication upward involves informing
government about what local people are
thinking, doing and feeling
- while communication downward involves
informing local people about what the
government is planning and doing.
• It should be possible for the voluntary
agency to adopt simple, innovative, flexible
and inexpensive means with its limited
resources and less overheads to reach a
larger population group with greater
community participation.
• To activate the delivery system and to make
it effective at the village level and respond to
the needs of the poorest of the poor;
• To make communities as self-reliant as possible;
• To show how village and indigenous resources and how
human resources, rural skills and which local knowledge is
grossly under-utilised at present, could be used for their
own development.
• To demystify technology and bring it in a simpler form to
the rural poor;
• To train a cadre of grass-root workers who believe in
professionalising volunteerism;
• To mobilise financial resources from within the
community with a view to making communities stand on
their own feet.
 ROLES OF VO
• Another major role of VOs is the ‘watchdog’ role. These include prevention
and misuse of governmental authority and economically powerful
interests in perpetuating social injustices and arresting the trends of
inefficiency and non-accountability of public administration.
JAN LOKPAL BILL

• The Jan Lokpal Bill, also referred

to as the Citizen's Ombudsman
Bill, was bill drawn up by some civil
society activists in India seeking
the appointment of a Jan Lokpal,
an independent body to
investigate corruption cases.
 KEY FEATURES OF BILL
1) To establish a central government anti-corruption institution
called Lokpal, supported by Lokayukta at the state level.
2) As is the case with the Supreme Court of India and Cabinet Secretariat,
the Lokpal will be supervised by the Cabinet Secretary and the Election
Commission. As a result, it will be completely independent of the
government and free from ministerial influence in its investigations.
3) Members will be appointed by judges, IAS officers with a clean record.
4) Inquiry has to be completed within 60 days and investigation to be
completed within six months. Lokpal shall order an investigation only
after hearing the public servant.
5) Losses to the government by a corrupt individual will be recovered at
the time of conviction.
6) Whistle-blowers who alert the agency to potential corruption cases will
also be provided with protection.
• The Right to Information Act (RTI) of
2005 helped civilians work effectively towards
tackling corruption. It allows Indian citizens to
request information, for a fixed fee of Rs.10, from a
"public authority" (a body of Government or
"instrumentality of State"). In turn, this public
authority is required to reply to the request within
thirty days. Activists have used this to uncover
corruption cases against various politicians and
bureaucrats – one consequence being that some of
those activists have been attacked and even killed.
ROLES OF NGO
 ROLE OF NGOS IN INDIA
Forest protection,
Agricultural improvement,
Irrigation management, etc.

government bureaucracy has in general

failed to work with people.
 ROLE OF NGOS IN INDIA

Forest protection,
Agricultural improvement,
Irrigation management, etc.

government bureaucracy has in general

failed to work with people.
 The Man Who Is Using Cameras To
Revolutionize Agriculture In India, Rikin
Gandhi

DIGITAL GREEN
• Gandhi, an Indian-American who
had never seen a village till 2006,
is now reaching out to over 6,000
villages through his organization
and working to improve the lives
of thousands of farmers.
• In 2006, he got a chance to visit
Indian villages as part of a Microsoft
Research India’s project, and the visit
changed his life forever.
• Digital Green is a platform which is
enabling villagers (especially women) in
some of the remotest locations to
produce videos using camcorders with
help from local NGOs and government
agencies. These videos promote best
practices in agriculture and livelihoods
and typically feature local community
members, thus, increasing the credibility
of the videos in convincing the farmers.
• “I feel technology can provide some
of the most advanced solutions in the
simplest ways. And we are using
technology to help the most
important people of the community,
who provide us food,” says Gandhi.
• Digital Green’s network of partners and
communities have produced over 4,000
videos in 28 languages so far. Digital
Green is expanding its geographical
footprint in partnership with the
Government of India’s Ministry of Rural
Development across 10,000 villages over
the next 3 years and has extended its
presence into parts of Ethiopia, Ghana,
and Afghanistan as well.
NGOs have an active role
in areas of
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION
AND EDUCATION
 General Hygiene
 Waste Disposal
 Water Usage
 Vaccinations
 Youth Counselling Services
 AWARENESS ABOUT
• Emerging health crises
• HIV/AIDS education and support
• Hepatitis B education
• Drug Addiction recovery
• Community Social Problems
• Juvenile crimes
• Runaway girls
• Street Children
• Prostitution
• Environmental
• Sustainable water and energy consumption
education
• Keeping mountains and forests clean

• Economic
• Microenterprises and Micro-loans
• Skill training (Computers, technician training,
Catering services, clothing and textile, etc.)
• Product promotion and distribution (Bazaars
etc.)
• Cooperative creation
• Range of NGO Activities
• Career services and job search
assistance

• Development
• School construction
• Infrastructure construction
• Cultural center construction and
operation
• Agriculture and Aquaculture expert
assistance
WOMEN’S ISSUES
• Women and Children’s Rights
• Battered women assistance center
• Group therapy for sexually abused
women
• Counselling hotlines (telephone-based
counselling services for women)
• Legal assistance to women
• Literacy drives
THANK
YOU