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Role of NGOs

The document discusses the various roles that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in social and economic development. It states that NGOs play a critical role across all areas of development and act as planners, implementers, mobilizers of local resources, catalysts for innovation, builders of self-reliant societies, mediators between people and government, supporters of government programs, providers of information, advocates for the poor, facilitators of education and training, replicators of small-scale initiatives, and promoters of optimal resource use and community preparedness. The document outlines major roles of NGOs as catalyzing rural populations, building models, supplementing government efforts, organizing the rural poor, educating rural people,

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Role of NGOs

The document discusses the various roles that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in social and economic development. It states that NGOs play a critical role across all areas of development and act as planners, implementers, mobilizers of local resources, catalysts for innovation, builders of self-reliant societies, mediators between people and government, supporters of government programs, providers of information, advocates for the poor, facilitators of education and training, replicators of small-scale initiatives, and promoters of optimal resource use and community preparedness. The document outlines major roles of NGOs as catalyzing rural populations, building models, supplementing government efforts, organizing the rural poor, educating rural people,

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Role of Social Worker/NGOs in

Social Systems:
Role of NGOs in Implementing the
Govt. Development Programmes:
NGOs play a critical role in all areas of
development. People and policy makers are
agree on one thing that NGOs play a very
important role in development. Role of NGOs
vary over the years as the policy of government
changes. NGOs are almost dependent on
polices of government.
Socio economic development is a shared
responsibility of both i.e. government and
NGOs. Role of NGOs are complementary but
vary according to polices of government.
If we closely pursue the voluminous literature
on NGOs many roles can be found according to
the expectations of people.
The major development roles described to
NGOs are to act as:
Planner and implementer of development
programmers
Mobiliser of local resources and initiative
Catalyst, enabler and innovator
Builder of self reliant sustainable society
Mediator of people and government
Supporter and partner of government
programme in activating delivery system
implementing development programmes,
etc.
Agents of information
Factor of improvement of the poor
Facilitator of development education,
training, professionalisation, etc.
Replicating micro-level initiatives
Optimal use of resources:
Check Overlapping, Duplication, &
Confusion:
Strengthen Community-Based
Preparedness:
Basically NGOs role is to prepare people for
change. They empower the people to overcome
psychological problem and opposition of
oppress.
NGO is one of the alternatives available among
various development organizations and one of
the inputs among technical, fnancial and other
resources, major merits of NGOs are emerging
from their limited scale of operation; the
sporadic eforts of NGOs can be consolidated
and made more efective.
Still the primary role of NGO is at the local
level as mobilizes of people and their resources
for an indigenous self-sustainable development.
And at this level it can be a pioneer, mediator
power broker, catalyst and has many other
roles. NGOs and their long glomerations also
are very in playing their role as advocates in
policy issues beyond local level-national or even
international level.
The various roles of NGOs are described below for better understanding.
a. Catalyze Rural Population
b. Build Models and Experiment
c. Supplement Government Eforts
d. Organizing Rural Poor
e. Educate the Rural People
f. Provide Training
g. Disseminate Information
h. Mobilize of Resources
i. Promote Rural Leadership
j. Represent the Rural People
k. Act as Innovators
l. Ensure Peoples Participation
m. Promote Appropriate Technology
n. Activate the Rural Delivery System

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