Climate change, social transition and Nigeria’s economical development

Autor: Noah Yusuf
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: International NGO Journal. 7
ISSN: 1993-8225
DOI: 10.5897/ingoj12.006
Popis: The present study was carried out in the state of Nagaland, India. It has 11 districts and out of which, 6 districts have been selected purposively. In this study, 45 NGOs were selected and from each one higher level of employee was interviewed. In the present investigation, endeavours were mainly confined to explore the genesis, growth, nature; status and involvement of NGOs in different activities. In this connection, NGOs were classified into various categories as per their year of establishment, coverage of working areas, status of registration under society registration act-1860 and FCRA-1976, extent of operational area, and developmental activities undertaken. Some pertinent findings are: 60% of the NGOs studies were from local level, 82% were established during 1991 to 2010. Ninety three percent of NGOs got registered under the society registration act and 44% under FCRA. Sixty four percent of the studied NGOs were working within a single district where 4% implementing developmental activities in all the 11 districts. NGOs were involved in implementing 12 major activities of which health sector was the highly preferred sector and other notable area of activities are women empowerment, children welfare, etc. Key words: NGO, growth, status, nature, developmental activities.
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