The Non-Governmental Organisations

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The development of new technologies and the intensification of countries' outlook towards globalization has motivated a lot of developed countries to increase their standard of living, improve their status in the worlds market economy and their overall position in the world. However, not all the countries in the world have the opportunity to access these new technologies which eventually can yield good profits in the economic market. This creates a clear disparity between people in the developed world and the developing world or the third world countries. For helping the latter, some people voluntarily create associations which are independent from the governments: the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's). The main purpose of this essay is to analyze and understand the establishment and functioning of these NGOs. It is very important to clearly define NGO's. How the function? What is their main motive- business and human point of view? We could ask ourselves if the NGOs are really independent or not etc..

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[...] Firstly, regarding your personal life and even more your living conditions. As most of the NGO are acting in developing countries or often in countries in war, your living conditions could be totally different from the ones you had in your home country. Depending on where you are, you might be missing essential things such as water or basic goods you were used to possessing. Moreover, it will be easier and better to be single when you leave France to work abroad in these situations. [...]

[...] As a white man he was supposed to have plenty of money. These are some examples of the risks you will have to face, you should be aware of the dangers you will be exposed to before going on a NGO mission, in order to feel confident and to face these difficult conditions. C. The salary As a last topic of this essay concerning the human point of view of NGOs, it seemed interesting to describe more about the salary. [...]

[...] We will explain this point of view of the NGO's thanks to real life examples from people we know who lived or are still living an experience in an NGO abroad. One of them worked as a doctor and the other is heading a development project. We conducted interviews either by the internet or directly asking questions about the main topics which interested us the most. This essay part is based on the life experiences and thoughts of the two employers along with general information we found. A. [...]

[...] NGOs from a business point of view Where do you find the funds? 5. What is your 6. A company has for objective to increase the shareholder's stock value, what is yours? 7. Do you work like a company? Are you as efficient? Why? 8. What is your budget? 9. Do you pay taxes? [...]

[...] NGOs manage large amounts of money: In 1999, the total amount of resources of worldwide NGOs reached 584 millions dollars! Today, big-sized NGOs are organized like important companies, with services, for example, human resources, transportation, accounting, marketing, which have also to defend their budget to the board of executives. We can add that NGOs often work with companies. There is even some important partnership, for example between Lafarge and WWF or Carrefour and FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights). People tend to think that NGOs are less professional than companies. [...]