Non- governmental Organizations

What stakeholder type do you think is the most important?
Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) are organizations that are not part of the
government and they are not formed with an aim of making profits. Since they do not constitute
the government, they do not get funding from the government’s budget. There are different
stakeholders that constitute a non- governmental organization including creditors, directors,
suppliers, employees, the government and community. The actions, policies and objectives of an
organization affect the stakeholders. The most important stakeholder in an NGO is the one who
keeps the funds available. NGOs are driven by the purpose for which it was created for and the
availability of funds to keep it going. Some NGOs are known to be solutions for policy
problems. Apart from working with the government and the private sectors, there is a growing
trend that NGOs work with donors.
Give a real world example or evidence from the readings to support your argument.
The author states that at some point, the government was among the institutions that
offered the NGOs with the funds, with the need to liberalize as well as to roll back the nation as
being part of structural adjustment policies. During that time, the NGOs were believed to be
efficient and cost- effective alternatives to the public sector on service delivery. However,
governments reduced their funding by mid 1970s. From then on, banks remain to be some of the
donors for the NGOs. The author mentions IMF and the World Bank as donors funding several

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Non- governmental organizations from time to time. After 1990s, the international community,
as donors, advocated for new policy agendas on good governance leading to a continued
economic liberalization.