...Project title: Health promotions NGO in Africa Type of project: Health Education Project beneficiaries: rural households and schools Location of beneficiaries: Africa Duration: 10 years Area of project implementation: Arid and Semi- arid Africa Budget requirement: $ 550,000 Project summary This proposal outlines a project aimed at helping the rural community in Africa deal with problems related to good hygiene practices, sanitation and healthy eating through various programs carried out by an NGO. The scope of this proposal is to outline how to register and operate an NGO dealing in health promotion in Africa. Based on existing statistics, the region is shown to require help in terms of education to facilitate change of behavior to promote good health. This project aims to enhance awareness of the dangers of practicing bad health habits and the advantages that come with changing to better habits. Problem statement Diarrhea, cholera, dysentery and other health related illnesses are top in the list of the most killer diseases in most developing countries, claiming more than three million children per year. For instance, Kenya, a country located in the eastern region of Africa is one of the countries with the highest rate of child mortality, with research findings pointing to the causes of this as poor sanitation, lack of an adequate water supply and poor access to health facilities. A recent survey by Unicef (2013) shows that...
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...Ecotourism Investment and Development Models: Donors, NGOs and Private Entrepreneurs Susan Heher smh53@cornell.edu Johnson Graduate School of Management School of Hotel Administration Cornell University December 2003 -1- 1. 1. INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND ECOTOURISM 3 7 7 8 12 15 17 17 20 22 26 27 29 31 32 33 34 36 37 39 39 42 46 55 58 61 64 70 75 77 79 81 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND ECOTOURISM COMMUNITY BASED ECOTOURISM THE SCALE OF ECOTOURISM MARKET DEMAND 2. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FROM DONORS AND AID AGENCIES THE RISE OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PROJECTS OVERVIEW OF TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS AND ASSISTANCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES AND NGOS THE ROLE OF CONSULTANTS THE PROJECT PROCESS: ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION CONCLUSIONS 3. PRIVATE SECTOR ENTREPRENEURS AND DEVELOPERS PROFILE OF ECOTOURISM ENTREPRENEURS SOURCES OF FINANCING AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE GROWTH, PROFITABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE ABILITY TO HAVE AN IMPACT CONCLUSIONS 4. 5. HYBRID: NGO VENTURE CAPITAL CASE STUDIES A. INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, IADB B. US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, USAID C. WORLD BANK: LESOTHO D. THE EUROPEAN UNION: SWAZILAND E. WORLD BANK IN SWAZILAND F. THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, TNC G. CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, CI H. CONSERVATION CORPORATION AFRICA, CC AFRICA I. TURTLE ISLAND J. MAHO BAY K. KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, MALULEKE COMMUNITY AND MATSWANI SAFARIS 6. CONCLUSION -2- 1. Introduction...
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...exclusively black and Adolphus who wishes he were. Cultural diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 7: 182–196. Issa G Shivji, Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa. Nairobi and Oxford: Fahamu, 2007, 68pp, £7.95 Reviewed by: Matt Birkinshaw, London School of Economics, UK DOI: 10.1177/0021909611425010 Shivji draws on his experience as both observer and participant of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Tanzania to outline a critique of NGO practice in the political and moral economy of African development. Shivji acknowledges that he is working ‘on a canvas of broad strokes’, but the issues he identifies are important for political and social practices across sites, scales and forms. The argument opens with a presentation of Africa’s colonial history and the coercive processes of extraction, domination and underdevelopment which continue into the present. He then outlines three failures of the liberation project in Africa: the national territorial state versus pan-Africanism; a developmental versus a democratic state; and nationalism versus imperialism. This is the context for his consideration of NGOs as non-state actors caught up in an imperial project. His observation that civil society in general is not an autonomous ‘third sector’ but a realm of social conflict still bears repeating. The silences in NGO discourse that Shivji identifies are: 1. 2. 3. 4. An ‘activist’ mentality and an anti-theoretical, short-termist, donor-led agenda An anti-historical...
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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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...Topic: Three issue in the current world Class: soc105 Name: Taiwan NGO (Non-Governmental Organization, called NGO) is a non-profit patterns in the international, especially in the main international aid. The international aid NGO in Taiwan is working on three things. First, a mainstream international development issues. Second, how participation of the international aid modalities. Three, introduce international cooperation development Foundation. Today, we are going to discuss the three issue in the current world. The fist issue is income. According to the research, the income per person who live in the Luxembourg in European is 50,000 US dollars but there is about 1.2 billion to 1.4 billion people that spent one dollar in a day. It show us that the gap is too big around the world, especially in China, we can see the rich people spending 1 million dollars to buy a shoes or clothes but there are many people cant even buy a food to eat. Second, the internet. A research by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development point out that there's five hundred and twenty nine out of a thousand people that using internet in the rich country but only twenty nine out of a thousand people using internet in Less developed countries in Africa and it tells us that the internet using in each place are not the same. Some people think that a national ICT industry development and digital human rights is related. If a country that the number of people using internet or...
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...limited access due to the remoteness and instability in this vast region the size of France. So we don’t see all the day to day details of suffering as we did, for example, in late 1998 in Kosovo. Those images and reports helped trigger UN ultimatums and eventual NATO intervention in 1999. After the Holocaust, the world said “never again” should we stand by and watch while millions are slaughtered. After the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, after the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and after the mass killings in Srebrenica in Bosnia in 1995, the world also stood by, and then said “never again.” And now we have Darfur. Thus Darfur can be seen as a profound test of the credibility of the international community: the United Nations, the international NGO community, the African Union, and citizens and governments around the world. Is there the will to act in Darfur or will we stand by once again? Questions to consider: On the political level: Is it a rebellion? Is it an internal It would be too easy to lay the blame Sudanese matter? Under what conditions can other states for the current crisis on the infamous intervene? “Janjaweed” or on the Sudanese government in Khartoum or on Sudan’s Is the killing “genocide”? How would this be determined history of civil war. The...
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...How to Start an NGO or Non-Profit in Ghana 1 HOW TO START AN NGO IN GHANA Starting and managing an NGO in Ghana, or anywhere, can test the most saintly of spirits. Alright, perhaps we’re exaggerating a little. But what we’re trying to say is that setting up an NGO in Ghana (or Africa) is NOT EASY. We’ll make setting up an NGO or non-profit in Ghana a little easier over the next five steps. (Head over to G-lish.org because we’ll give you glimpses into our own NGO struggles and achievements straight from the NGO diaries from time to time.) This document covers five main steps essential to setting up an NGO in Ghana. The first two are generic steps for anywhere in the world. The final three steps are for Ghana, specifically. Feel free to share this document with anyone who may be starting their own NGO anywhere. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Develop Your Vision and Mission Develop Goals and Objectives Set up a Board of Directors Draft a Constitution Register the Organization in Ghana 1. Develop Your Vision and Mission You need a compelling vision and genuine commitment to that vision for the long-term. If you do things right you will go MaD (making a difference) in a way that fully benefits your target communities. Vision and Mission will explain your organization’s existence and focus its activities. And, this will “sell” your NGO to the world. Writing a vision and mission is like crafting an elevator pitch: make it short, clear and a little intriguing. But let’s look at the difference...
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...society organizations and NGOs have had a negligible influence on the governance of peace and security Civil society is the set of diverse groups and social organizations that are strong enough to provide protection and autonomy to individuals from the hegemonic and authoritarian tendencies of states. (Human Security Centre, 2005) Major dimensions in peace building process can be identified as: * Political and Institutional: respecting and strengthening state reform, good governance and democratization * Military and Security: Protection, demobilization, disarmament, demilitarization. * Social: basic needs and amenities, attention to the most vulnerable groups. * Economic: re-establish a stable macro-economic framework, reactivate the supply, demand & the local markets, and promote structural reforms. * Environmental: ensure a sustainable management and access of the natural resources Roles of civil society and NGOs in global governance for peace and security are: * Collect, disseminate and analyze information * Provide input to agenda-setting and policy development processes; * Perform operational functions * Assess social conditions and monitor compliance with peace and security agreements * Advocate social justice The Civil society and NGOs are crippled and have less say in the governance of peace and security because of the following reasons (DAC, 1997): * The functioning of the NGOs will be more effective...
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...DESTINATION REPORT TOWNSHIP TOURISM IN CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA BY XENIA FONG BSc (Hons) International hospitality Management TOURISM PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT CW2 NOVEMBER 2015 word count: 2714 TABLE OF CONTENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 1. INTRODUCTION 4 2. TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING IN NATIONAL 4 2.1 BEFORE 2000s 4 2.2 FROM 2000s-2010s 5 2.3 AFTER 2010s 6 3. TOWNSHIP TOURISM 7 3.1 TOWNSHIP TOURISM IN SOUTH AFRICA 7 3.2 TOWNSHIP TOURISM IN CAPE TOWN 8 4. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 10 5. REFERENCE 11 6. APPENDICES 13 6.1 ANNUAL VISITOR ARRICALS FOR OVERSEAS MARKETS COMPARED TO AFRICA 13 6.2 THE NATIONAL RESPONSIBLE TOURISM STRATEGY IN RELATION TO THE NTSS (2011) 13 6.3 THE VALUE CHAIN OF SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISM SECTOR 14 6.4 ATTRACTIONS OF LANDMARKS VISITED BY TOURIST IN SOUTH AFRICA 15 6.5 KEY ELEMENTS OF THE TOURISM PRODUCTS IN SUPPLIER SIDE 15 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report indicates and evaluates the tourism planning, strategies and challenges of South Arica in national and township tourism in the case of Cape Town. Tourism industry is one of the economic pillars for South Africa. The tourism framework in these two decades were moderated according to the White Paper on Tourism published in 1996. The most important principal, responsible tourism, to sustain the long-term strategy and development planning until current was suggested in the White Paper. Township tourism was considered...
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...Poverty: An African Crisis Today, 300 million African people live on less than $1 US per day (World Bank). The incidence of extreme poverty never seems to go down, despite decades of work by African governments and NGOs, outside NGOs, and foreign government aid programs. What causes this entrenched poverty, on a continent rich with natural resources? Unfortunately, poverty in Africa doesn't result from just one or two causes. There are a number of different factors at work, all interacting with one another, and making the problem of entrenched poverty extremely difficult to solve. Some of the major causes of poverty include: war and armed conflict, poor farm policy, lack of access to credit, rampant unemployment, lack of access to education, and disease. One-fifth of all African people live in countries seriously disrupted by armed conflict (World Bank). When war is ranging all around, it's very difficult to grow crops, continue to work in an office, or earn money. Ordinary life becomes impossible, as people are forced to flee their homes. Thus, productivity goes down, and poverty rates shoot up. Countries at war produce an average of 12.5 per cent less food per person than they do during peace time (World Bank). One example is Angola, where a 27-year long civil war killed half a million people and left 3.8 million people displaced (Szczepanski). Virtually all the country's infrastructure was destroyed in the conflict, and more than three-quarters of the population fell into...
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...NGO of choice: MalariaNoMora.Org (MNM) The African continent is facing many challenges that prevent its economical prosperity for so long, ranging from poverty that has taken its role in delaying the progress, to mal nutrition and diseases “…Third world nations still share a number of common characteristic, all of them suffer from some aspects of political, economic, or social underdevelopment” (Handelman, 2011, p2). Plasmodium parasite is the disease that causes Malaria which is primarily transmitted and caused by bites from female anopheles mosquito. It is one of the top three killer diseases in Africa “The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes, called "malaria vectors", which bite mainly between dusk and dawn” (WHO.int). Malaria No More is an NGO that demonstrated it’s committed to fight Malaria disease in Africa and providing basic human needs to tackle the infestation of the disease that spread in most Africa’s countries. MNM (Malaria No More) is also working relentlessly to provide vaccination to Africans suffering from the disease on one hand, and furnishing Africans with Mosquito sleeping nets on the other hand as a preventive approach to enable them sleep without getting exposed to mosquito bites at night. MNM efforts is limited to their funding constrains; private donations are the primary sources of funding that MNM relies on. Raising more awareness is one way the organization depends on in their efforts to educate the...
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...World Market Strategies for Drugs to Fight Aids Jérôme Dumoulin, Yves-Antoine Flori, Philippe Vinard, Thomas Borel Key words: AIDS; drugs; price; developing countries. Abstract Faced with a situation where the market is unstable and the political context is crucial, we propose a three-part analysis. In the first part, an overview of the chronology of the main events shows that the evolution of the price of ARVs is interlinked with numerous issues of pharmaceutical patent rights. In the second part, we analyse the positions of stakeholders: how they behave in the market and influence market regulations. In the third part, we propose three scenarios which are both simplified interpretations of stakeholders’ strategies and options for the future. The first scenario is the status quo, where prices are high. The second scenario is driven by multinational companies who work to enlarge the markets by price differentiation and product diversification. The third scenario is driven by International Organisations which achieve a political consensus to enlarge access to ARV drugs through broader international financing and a systematic opening of the market to generics. Résumé Face à une situation de marché instable où le contexte politique est primordial, nous proposons une analyse en trois parties. Dans la première partie une esquisse de la chronologie des événements montre que l’évolution des prix des 214 Economics of A I DS and Access to H I V/A I DS Care… ARV est...
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... Asian Agri, founded in 1979, is one of Asia’s largest integrated palm oil producers. Asian Agri exported about 3 million tonnes of palm oil in 2009, and currently manages 28 oil palm plantations, 19 palm oil mills and four refineries. The company is also a strong advocate for sustainable palm oil production and usage, and is currently a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Sukanto Tanoto, founder of Asian Agri, is currently facing a dilemma in the future developments of Asian Agri. Although he believes that palm oil has a bright future ahead, there are many challenges faced by the company in its expansion such as the increasing difficulty in acquiring land in Indonesia, and the rising pressure from the international NGOs. Future of Palm Oil and Asian Agri Tanoto is right on the bright future of palm oil. Firstly, palm oil, also known as the “golden corp” of Southeast Asia, is the most economic edible oil to produce given its highest yield and lowest cost of production compared to other edible oil. Secondly, with the fast-growing population around the world, and the need to drive economic growth in developing nations such as China and India, the demand for food and fuel is expected to grow significantly, thus the same for palm oil. Thirdly, there are many rising health concerns with trans fat, and many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and consumers are seeking to limit trans fat consumption. Thus palm oil being trans fat free is an inexpensive...
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...LECTURE 2: NGO, Concept and Governance Defining Criteria Size - it started out as small, informal structures in which management issues can be dealt with on an ad hoc (unplanned), informal basis, may rapidly grow in size if they find favour with donor agencies. SIZE: some (e.g. Greenpeace, Oxfam, International Committee of the Red Cross, Medecins sans Frontieres) are large, multinational bodies, with offices in many countries (and often multiple branches within a single country), and large full-time and salaried staffs. At the other extreme, I know of a number of "NGOs" that are in practice one- or two-person operations, dependent on and run by entirely voluntary (perhaps even part-time) effort. Organizational structure - Mars (1992) says that that the above is possible because the organizational structure of the NGOs are informal and not bureaucratic or hierarchical, and they are result oriented rather than paying attention to regulations and protecting their political power. NGOs may be large or small, formal or informal, bureaucratic or flexible Top Management -----> <----Staffs members Operational Programme areas – Humanitarian, indigenous, environment, charity, etc Geographical specificity – GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: Compare large bodies such as Greenpeace, who take on issues fron global to local (but anywhere in the world) scale, with, for example, a European NGO whose work focuses only on a specific country or region or issue overseas (e.g there is an...
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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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