...Jamsetji Tata. As part of the Tata group, Taj also subscribed to the commitment of giving back to the community, especially to the underprivileged population. So part of the goal for Taj Hotel in working with its CSR responsible sourcing strategy is to extend its core corporate value and promote corporate culture. Another goal is to leverage its competencies to enable underserved population to generate income and earn a livelihood. Taj is known for its competencies in housekeeping, laundry and food production, and by creating hospitality skill-training centers and other apprenticeship opportunities for underprivileged youth and people with disabilities, Taj was able to outsource hospitality and laundry service and products to NGOs such as Arz and Women’s India Trust, and help those people generate more incomes and create more social values. By initiating CSR outsourcing strategy, Taj is also able to improve corporate image and brand recognition. Creating job opportunities for underserved communities helps Taj boosts its corporate image and positions itself as a good “Corporate Citizen”, which in turn will help grow its business. For example, Taj Hotel is able to share with its guests about the humane story behind its products and services, thus differentiate itself from other competitors. A number of stakeholders are engaged in Taj Hotel’s initiative. Shareholders of Taj Hotel intend to maximize their revenue and profits,...
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...attempts to explore the performance management practices of NGOs must begin with an explanation what non-governmental organizations or non-profit organizations in general are and principally what their field of activity consists of. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and non-profit organizations (NPOs) are a diverse group of organizations, which play different roles and take very different shapes and forms within and across different countries. NGOs work both independently and alongside bilateral aid agencies from developed countries, private-sector infrastructure operators, self-help associations, and local governments (Hamed-Ur-Rehman, 2012). Salomon und Anheimer (1999) developed the idea that NGOs in general show five key characteristics. They are (a) organized and follow a certain institutional common goal, (b) they separate themselves from the government and are private corporations, (c) they do not return profit to investors ore owners, (d) they are completely autonomous and decide over there activities on their own and (e) they base on a voluntary member or worker platform. According to Enahoro and Nwaobia (2012) NGOs play an essential part in the development process of civil societies and contribute to the economic development in developing countries. Furthermore Enahoro and Nwaobia refer to NGOs as private organizations that pursue finalities of public interest though raising of new resources, creating new services for the indigent public or companies that seek help...
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...Role of NGOs in Bangladesh In all spheres of development, NGOs are reported to have created a landmark in the history of Bangladesh. NGOs as the proper alternative organizations have the vision of imagination, flexibility, autonomy, creativity, innovative machinery, experience resources and strategies of executing programmers including non formal constructive education. NGOs have different projects towards development. Doubtlessly to say, the NGOs with their constructive efforts have been promoting development strategies by creating unique changes in the field of socioeconomic progress in Bangladesh since her independence. Most of the endeavors made by the NGOs mainly targeted to achieve overall development of the country by meeting pragmatically or practically. The NGOs have their constructive mission in developing the country. They touch the fundamental elements of socio economic development of a country. If human resources are not properly used, it will be gradual inactive and useless for the country bringing no utility. The most important NGO innovation has been in the way they reach the poor. A group-based or target group mobilization strategy underpins virtually all development NGO programs aimed at service-delivery. Such an approach serves to fulfill not only the goal of economic improvement through direct targeting and beneficiary participation, but also that of social and institutional development through strengthening the organizing capacity of the poor to be more...
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...Markets and Future Emerging Markets - NGOs Term paper for “International Trade and Emerging Markets” Winter Semester 2015/2016 Lecturer: Prof. Herrmann Leon Hankamp MA 14 IB / International Trade and Emerging Markets Student-No. 114550000 Table of contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Non-governmental organizations 3 2.1. What is a NGO? 3 2.2. Different types of NGO’s 4 2.3. Strengths and Weaknesses 5 2.4. Renowned NGO’s in emerging markets 5 3. NGO’s in emerging markets 7 3.1. The role of NGO’s in emerging markets 7 3.1.1. Poverty 7 3.1.2. Human rights 9 3.1.3. Corruption 10 3.1.4. Environment 12 4. NGO’s collaborations with other entities 12 4.1. Companies 12 4.2. World Bank 14 5. Conclusion 15 Bibliography 17 1. Introduction The purpose of this term paper is to analyze and demonstrate the role of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) in the emerging markets and future emerging markets. First at all, what is a NGO? The first part of the paper focuses on the theoretical framework of the NGOs, although there is no real definition of what a NGO is. There are different definitions from different companies or entities; however all NGOs have the same goal, to help the poor, stand for human dignity and protect the environment. In the main part I am going to handle the subject which is the actual role of NGOs in emerging economies. There are different areas in which NGOs are involved with, such as poverty...
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...the relief of Haiti but the Haitian people are still living in tents, reason being the government have not received much from the money donated. A large proportion of the money donated has gone to NGOs who mainly focused on the basic necessities to get people through the day, this is an issue because the government needs money to fund the building of infrastructure such as houses for the Haitian people. The U.N is going into Haiti and creating a plan to aid but they are not communicating with the government of Haiti to see what the people of Haiti actually needs. As a result it proved to be ineffective because 6 years later the tents are still up and millions of dollars was wasted on the excess amount of short term relief. The United States of America as well as the rest of United Nations should continue to guide Haiti to be a more stable country because of Haiti’s inexperience financially, politically or law enforcement. However, these external bodies should allow Haiti to develop on it’s own rather than imposing their own personal agenda. The U.S should assign political advisors to act as a counselor until Haiti has a stable economy and political system and Haiti’s progress should monitor closely to prevent anymore economic struggles. Funding should be focused on solely on creating engineers, expanding the little medical field Haiti has and providing Haiti’s population with proper nourishment as well as medical attention. At this point in time 6 years later, there should be more...
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...SOCIETIES LEGISLATION ON THE PROMOTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN ETHIOPIA By Gebremedhin Birega gbdagaga@gmail.com March 2014 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1 Abstract Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in general and environmental CSOs in particular, have been playing considerable constructive role in the nation building efforts in Ethiopia. However, all their contributions are not wholeheartedly accepted by the government. In 2009, the government introduced a new law overtly presented to register, administer and create an enabling environment for a more meaningful contribution of CSOs/NGOs. Nevertheless, it has been argued that the introduction of the new law further weakened the already young and inexperienced CSO/NGO sector in general and those engaged in environmental justice in particular. The main objective of this paper is therefore to assess the impact of the legislation on NGOs/CSOs engaged in environmental justice mainly in: limiting areas of intervention; affecting access to foreign funds and other forms of support to undertake mandated tasks; retaining competence including knowledge and skills; making government answerable to felt needs of the society; advancing meaningful networking among CSOs at national, regional and global level on environmental policy reform issues; downsized change in amount of budget and skilled staff; engaging in research undertaking; conducting quality monitoring and evaluation activities. Based on the findings recommendations are forwarded...
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...Smile Foundation Presented by: Group 10 Prachi Jain (9220) Shivani Karkal (9225) Divya Naik (9232) Monika Panchal (9235) Urvara Patil (9237) Ranjana Pawar (9240) 2 Presentation Layout 3 Shivani Karkal- About the NGO and its programmes. Monika Panchal- Programmes, Vision and Mission, Communication Objectives, Our Perspective. Ranjana Pawar- Use of Press and Media. Prachi Jain- Connecting with Audience. Divya Naik- Strategies Used Urvara Patil- Results and Evaluation. About the NGO Formed in the year 2002 by a group of corporate professionals who decided to finance and support genuine grassroots initiatives targeted at providing education and health to underprivileged children. In the process, it became the first ever grantmaker and changed the face of thousands of lives. 4 Programmes 5 Mission Education: Mission Education is a national level programme from Smile Foundation which focuses on basic education for underprivileged children and youth. Smile Twin E-Learning: Its an effort towards creating a pool of employable youth from the underprivileged section through skill enhancement in tandem with market requirements. 6 Smile on Wheels: Operates by taking wellequipped medical van along with specialized doctors, nurses, medical staff, equipments and medicines to the identified villages / slums in a systematic manner. Swabhiman: It is designed to enable women to realize their full...
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...social Business? 4.2 Which is not social Business? 4.4 Types of social Business. 4.5 Social Business a business model 4.6 Social business model framework/ Legal framework for social Business 4.7 Features of social Business to be considered 4.8 Seven principle of social Business 4.9 Four rules of social Business 4.10 Advantages and disadvantages of social Business \Chapter five 5.1 profit and social Business 5.2 How Bangladesh can profit from social Business 5.3 Social Business in Bangladesh compared with abroad 5.3 What Social Business offers? 5.1How to build social Business/ How social Business Can be started? 5.2 Social business as a new form of capitalism 5.5 Social investment fund …social stock market. 5.3 creating a glabal insfrustracture for Social business 5.4 Social business and corporate responsibility 5.5 Government policies regarding social Business 5.6 Some resemble terms to be cleared to alienate confusion regarding social business. 5.6.1 Social media business 5.6.2 Social enterprise 5.6.3 Social entrepreneurship 5.6.4 Social foundation Chapter six 6.1 Future tends of social Business in Bangladesh 6.2 Prediction of...
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...THE ROLE OF CORPORATE SECTOR AND NGOs IN ADDRESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN PAKISTAN The environment in Pakistan has been degrading alarmingly over the past few decades. Pakistan faces a number of environmental issues like deforestation, water, air, land and noise pollution, depletion of water resources, destruction of arable land of to name a few. The consequences of these issues, as we know from the past, can be devastating. One major issue that every sector needs to address is the depletion of forests and rampant deforestation in the country. Forests in Pakistan are mostly found in mountainous regions of the north and west, with a few mangrove forests along the coastal line of Arabian Sea. Due to an increased demand for wood, forests have been cut down brutally at an average rate of 0.5% of the forest area per annum according to official records (The Pakistan National Conservation Strategy). The corporate sector in Pakistan has played a two-sided role when addressing environmental issues in Pakistan. Where the industrial sector pollutes the environment and disturbs the natural balance of the ecosystem, it also tries to come across as an eco-friendly sector of the society. There are a number of factories which do not consider proper waste disposal procedures and dump untreated wastes into the environment polluting the environment. Organizations in the corporate sector need to maintain a positive image in the public mind. To show that they too care about the environment...
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...Introduce Value Based Management in NGOs of Bangladesh Munima Siddika1 Abstract: Presently the rapid growth and diversification of the gigantic NGO sector of Bangladesh has given rise to questions and concerns, about their trade-offs between sustainability and pro-poor orientation; the impact and quality of services; corporate governance; management and accountability. The paper is based on a proposal to introduce a modern management system viz. value based management (VBM) in the NGOs of Bangladesh. Value-based management can be defined as an integrated management control system that measures, encourages and supports the creation of net worth. The report of Transparency International Bangladesh ‘Problems of Governance in the NGO Sector: The Way Out’ (TIB) 2007 is used here as an information source of finding out the flaws of existing management techniques. Finally the paper recommended implementation techniques of VBM in order to regain the image of the NGOs as a pioneer of social welfare in Bangladesh. Keywords: NGO, Transparency, Governance, Management, Strategies, Value Addition, Value Based Management etc. 1. Introduction Bangladesh has largely failed to assist the poor or reduce poverty because of limited resources and faulty planning, while Non Government Organizations (NGOs) have grown dramatically and ostensibly to fill up this gap. There are more and bigger NGOs here than in any other country of equivalent size. Bangladesh’s NGO sector is remarkable for the speed with...
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...citizens, NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations or businesses or run by volunteers (Wikipedia). In this paper I will discuss the Umeed Foundation, based in Punjab, India and focused on rural development of the Punjab region through economic empowerment and healthcare programs benefiting many women and children of the area. I will cover the core values of this foundation, the programs the foundation creates and supports as well as the impact to the community and my commentary of the resources they provide. The Umeed Foundation was created by Chairman Arvind Khanna in 1997 as a way to work with the impoverished region of Sangrur in the Punjab region of India which was a locally marginalized area that had been wrecked by years of terrorism, fighting in the region and lack of development by state resources. Local residents were unable to earn a fair wage and were thereby unable to support themselves and help develop future generations and that system was creating a long term poverty cycle for the area that was unlikely to be broken. Khanna believed in working to empower the local inhabitants through a small loan program and skill development training as well as by setting up a more reliable healthcare system. Umeed’s mission is stated as: “transforming the hopes and aspirations of the underprivileged into reality through good health, skill development, entrepreneurship, employment opportunities and cohesive community development. The NGO envisages creating a movement...
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...It can be generated by individuals, companies, organizations or other parts of human society. Pop idols can be a source of soft power, the film industry can be a source of soft power, a foundation helping animals can be a source of soft power, even an object can be a source of soft power. The “pool of culture, ideas and norms” (Vyas, 2013, p. 43) becomes infinite provided it leads to attraction and cooperation. Admired individuals usually become powerful within society and may end up playing an important role in politics or international issues. They may stand for the interest of a wider audience or of a powerful elite, creating thus influence on others by means other than coercion. As Gallarotti (2011) says, “democratic culture naturally drives national leaders towards the liberal principles manifest in the cannons of soft power” (p.35). That is how individuals may represent political values, either within or outside their...
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...initiatives have won the prestigious “Prime Ministers First Prize” (in 2003-04) for achievements in maintaining Chittagong as a “Clean and Green” city of Bangladesh. Successful initiatives include an annual month-long plantation fair, and water and firewood recycling projects. The Conservancy Department of CCC is responsible for the solid waste management. To TOP 2. Action Plan Progress After the First 2006 AUICK Workshop, the Action Plan made for Chittagong facilitated NGO and private initiatives to better manage solid waste collection and disposal. Chittagong’s urban environment suffers from the effects of unplanned waste disposal by its 35-40 health clinics and hospitals, and the destruction of its hillside greenery by unplanned development, so a two-part plan increased community waste management and treatment of hospital waste, as well as creating greening programs for the urban areas of the city. Almost 30% of the city’s Wards were brought under community level management, and Ward councilors, public and NGO staff and community members worked together to improve the organization of waste disposal. Around 45...
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...quest for maximized profit, it is crucial that the growth and evolution of transnational advocacy networks give the people who matter a venue to be heard on a large scale. People all over the world, both nationally and internationally are often silenced or disregarded because as many say, “money talks”, however this all changes when these individuals or small groups of people create coalitions, whether they are near each other, or simply someone on the other side of the planet who is trying to help them and make a difference. It all starts with one person and once the movement gains momentum, it is much harder for corporations and money to stifle and silence. The key to creating these transnational advocacy networks, as seen in Crude, is the presence and backing of a Non-Governmental Organization, or NGO, as Steven R. Donziger (the American Lawyer seen in the case) helped get the popularly called “Amazonian Chernobyl” into the headlines and eventual coverage support by Vanity...
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...Gaon Chalo WHAT IS GAON CHALO? The Gaon Chalo programme is TGB’s effort in last mile rural distribution. It is an opportunity, responsibility and a challenge which while tapping unreached rural markets also provides a means of sustainable livelihood to many. This programme, run through NGOs, is present in more than 18 Indian states and benefits a number of women and youth. "Gaon Chalo" is a distinctive rural marketing initiative started in the year 2006 in Uttar Pradesh by Tata Tea. For penetrating the rural market, the company partnered with NGOs with wide reach among Uttar Pradesh's rural masses. The "Gaon Chalo project has created employment opportunities to the youth of villages and small towns. It has brought steady income to those who are distributors of Tata Tea. Tata Tea's consolidated market shares from rural areas rose from 18% to 26.6%. Gaon Chalo has three levels of Channel Partners: Rural Distributors Rural Distributors are NGOs that work in the rural segment. They bring a deep understanding of the rural market and are committed to their growth. They act as nodal points and facilitators for all activities Mobile Rural Distributors Mobile rural distributors connect stocks to interior markets, rural dealers, village shops and in the process earn margins. Rural Dealers The third layer includes rural dealers who receive our stock at their doorstep for sales to micro interior village shops and houses. These include rural retailers, unemployed, the differently-abled...
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