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Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) contribute immensely to global development by seeking to prove the quality of life for those whom poverty and disadvantage are a daily reality. This is achieved by devoting resources into advocacy campaigns aimed to represent the community and demand the interests of civil society to be recognized. As well as establishing projects to do things like encourage income generation or build water supplies. Advocacy and public service projects by NGOs have resulted in such ground breaking and successful development achievements that it is crucial in the understanding of how societies operate struggle and develop.

In this essay I will critically discuss the NGOs roles, strategies, strengths and short falls. As well as identify ways to improve their accountability and transparency.

The term NGO is considered difficult to define and agree on, as NGO has no universal definition. It is difficult to recognise what the term NGO exactly involves due to diversity in their scale (e.g. grass-root, local, national, regional and international, or Northern and Southern), in terms of size and money, fields of actions (e.g. human rights, development, environment, peace movement, poverty reduction), ways of activities (e.g. service projects or advocacy projects), structural forms (e.g. relief and welfare, small-scale self-reliant development or sustainable systems development) and their target beneficiaries. NGOs have different end desires depending on various needs of beneficiaries and situations. (Hyeyoung n.d.) The United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council defined NGO as an entity recognized, standing, representative, accountable, transparent, democratic and funded by voluntary non-government sources. T...

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...development. (Edwards & Hulme, 1995)
NGOs play a vital role in behaviours, actions and interactions of international effect.
Each NGO provides a different effect on development depending on their size, goals and other characteristics. Advocacy organisations and service organisations provide state like results, demonstrating their large effect on an international level. NGOs shape the outcomes and agenda’s of events of international effect ranging from policy changes to innovations to the support of volunteers. Limitations arise toward NGOs accountability, transparency and legitimacy but it is evident that NGOs presence in development projects is highly effective; therefore recommendations and solutions are in the works. Development NGOs are actively, and successfully mobilising civil society to ‘help you make us the generation that did it’ (Bono in Bendell, 2005)

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