International NGO Journal

  • Abbreviation: Int. NGOJ
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8225
  • DOI: 10.5897/INGOJ
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 264

Table of Content: September 2011; 6(9)

September 2011

Role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interventions on tribal health: Some annotations from grass root level

  Health is one of the vital indicators reflecting the quality of human life. World Health Organization (WHO) describes health as a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not merely as absence of diseases or infirmity. Today majority of Indian indigenous (Treble’s) people are facing various communicable and non communicable diseases. It is found that positive correlation...

Author(s):   Devajana C.  Nanjunda and P. T. Dinesha  

September 2011

The widespread challenges of NGOs in developing countries: Case studies from Iran

  The last decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth in non-governmental organizations (NGO) in all spheres of human activities worldwide, especially in developing countries. NGOs, as an integral part of civil society, concerned with management of a complex and diverse range of activities. They face internal and external management issues. This study provides a critical overview of the major issues...

Author(s):   Ali Akbar Bromideh  

September 2011

The dilemma of engaging community-wide in development: Has Konko’s (Eastern Region, Ghana) water and sanitation committee taken over decision-making at the community’s will?

  Local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have contributed immensely towards providing clean water to rural people, and is partly the reason that much attention has been given to water projects that they either directly or indirectly fund when it comes to understanding the impacts of the projects on the beneficiaries.  This study, which assessed a local NGO in the Eastern region of Ghana (that is,...

Author(s):   Frank S. Arku, Akosua O. Lomotey and Emmanuel N. Angmor