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The difference The privacy-first messenger. Contribute Developer, crypto specialist, translator Edit on github. May 26, 12 Min read. Related Articles. Antoine 12 Min read. Manfred Touron 4 Min read. Prompted by the inadequacies of the state, citizens across the globe have developed organizations of civil society — NGOs — to help address a wide variety of social needs. I believe that NGOs have three primary roles in advancing modern societies.
First, 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.. Secondly, NGOs provide opportunity for the self-organization of society.
NGOs enable citizens to work together voluntarily to promote social values and civic goals, which are important to them. They promote local initiative and problem solving. Thirdly, In some cases, NGOs become spokespersons for the poor and attempt to influence government policies and programs on their behalf.
This may be done through a variety of means ranging from campaigning and pilot projects to participation in public forums and the formulation of government policy and plans.
Thus NGOs play roles from advocates for the poor to implementers of government programs; from agitators and critics to partners and advisors; from sponsors of pilot projects to mediators. Second, NGOs help the public talk to governments. The public is only able to choose its representatives once every few years. Once in power, politicians take hundreds of decisions about laws, taxes and policies.
NGOs give the people a way of telling our political representatives what we think of their choices. NGOs explain to governments the views of the people they represent, for example, people with disabilities or older people or people who do not agree with nuclear energy. When NGOs are working to make sure that governments keep to these legal obligations, they are helping to safeguard democracy and the public interest. This is because when governments put rules into their constitution or into a treaty, the process usually takes many years.
Governments do this when they have agreed that these rules carry great importance because they serve the general public good. Third, unfortunately, governments do break the law. When this happens, NGOs can take the government to court. This way, NGOs make sure that governments do not misuse their powers and break constitutional or internationally agreed rules that have already been democratically agreed to.
NGOs get their money from a combination of places. These include donations from the general public, from governments, from international organisations and from philanthropists. It is difficult for most NGOs to survive on small donations from the general public alone.
Most NGOs cannot afford to invest money on fundraising campaigns by sending people into the streets, buying advertising space or using call centres to collect donations over the phone. Usually NGOs, especially smaller ones, want to use all the money they get to hire experts to work on their main cause. Stay in the loop. Often NGOs get some money from their own government.
Sometimes governments give NGOs money to provide a service, for example, to give legal advice to someone who has been mistreated by their employer and cannot afford to pay for a lawyer. Sometimes governments give money to NGOs who represent particular groups, like people with disabilities, because politicians want to make sure that when they make laws and policies, everyone who could be affected has a chance to speak. Giving funding to NGOs that represent the views of particular groups can make it easier for governments to collect all the relevant opinions and expertise.
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