NGOs in Bangladesh: Activities, resources, and governance

Gauri, Varun; Galef, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.05.009

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“…Bangladesh is fits on this line, where government has been lacking to address the socioeconomic problems of its citizens (health, food, shelter, education and security) and is inefficient to tackle with the natural crisis (which occurs every year in monsoon). The interviews participants of this research from BRAC, Kumudini and local people as well as documentary evidences (World Bank, 2005;Haque, 2002;Gauri and Galef, 2005;Hasan, 1992;1993) assure that normally, citizens' expectations have been neglected even since before the British colonized to the Bangladesh. Public service deliveries (such as health facility, food, shelter, education, employment, sanitation, hygienic water etc.)…”

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“…Our chicken lays 240 eggs a year compared to the 40 a year a deshi bird lays, thereby fetching farmers more money. We thus see microfinance as a tool to raise the income and quality of life of the poor by connecting them to the market" (Nepali times 358 (20 July 07-26 July 07 10 ). This short description provides how deep a nonprofit organization can reach to the everyday lives of its citizens.…”

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Role of Nongovernmental Organization in Bangladesh. Are They Challenging the Government Power? A Case Study from Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

Bhandari¹

2017

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In the first part of this write up the author introduces Bangladesh, explores some of the important NGOs, evaluates their contribution to national building and in second part he examines the role of BRAC Bangladesh as a case study in poverty eradication and public service delivery. In the case study, first the author outlines the historical account of BRAC and secondly its motivation to fight against the poverty through its rural development programs (credit and other), health and education and social development of Bangladesh and examine the ground of increasing power of NGOs and diminishing the government power. This study is based on the interviews and fieldwork data conducted in July and August 2007 and updated in 2016. Additional information is based on annual reports of respected NGOs of Bangladesh and reports publish by the Government of Bangladesh, the World Bank, international agencies and scholars. The purpose of this study is to examine how NGOs involve in public service delivery and how nonprofit organizations diminish the states power. This article reveals that Bangladeshi big NGOs are not totally nonprofit organizations because they are operating several business enterprises, and also diminishing the state power through public service delivery. This write up also shows that the reason of proliferation of NGOs in Bangladesh is government's inefficiency in public service delivery. Empirical evidences show that state acknowledges the role of NGOs in socio-economic development of the nation and has been trying to develop collaborative approach for development. NGOs power is not only increasing due to their efficiency in service delivery but also due to the donors' interests, and neo-liberal globalized world order. Bangladeshi NGOs have gain worldwide reputation and global attention. NGOs (i.e. Grameen Bank, BRAC, ASA, PROSHIKA) have own donors' consortium. As consequence, there are hundreds of research monographs (from World Bank, Asian Development Bank, DFID, NOVIB, Bangladesh Government etc.), doctoral dissertations (by the students from Bangladesh and abroad) and international journal articles which explore the role of NGOs in Bangladesh, their power struggle with government and accountability, transparency issues as well as their strength at both local, national and international levels. This study supports the notion that NGOs power has been increased because of the inefficiency of government in providing goods and services to its citizens. BRAC case study shows that NGOs in Bangladesh are diminishing government power not only at local and national levels but also gaining creditability in the international arena.

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Role of Nongovernmental Organization in Bangladesh. Are They Challenging the Government Power? A Case Study from Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

Bhandari¹

2017

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“…Like all neo liberal development projects the solutions were technical: community groups were to be formed, training in literacy and other 'productive' activities offered alongside technical, supervisory and marketing support, all deeply reminiscent of the services offered by the countless NGOs working in Bangladesh (cf. Lewis, 2006;White, 1999;Stiles, 2002;Gauri and Galef, 2005;Karim, 2008).…”

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Chevron's gift of CSR: moral economies of connection and disconnection in a transnational Bangladeshi village

Gardner¹

2015

Economy and Society

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“…Among the registered NGOs, 92 per cent are involved in micro-credit services of which 90% of small NGOs and 96% are big NGOs (Gauri & Galef, 2005). …”

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Educational Development of NGO Beneficiaries in Bangladesh: A Disjunction between Programmes and Implementation

Khan¹,

Islam²,

Ali³

2014

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This study examines the relationship between NGO programmes and their clients' educational development. NGOs play a very significant role with a view to achieving their development goal. Developing countries consider education as the key aspect for their socio-economic development. The study focuses on this perspective and asks the relationship between NGOs' socio-economic and training programmes (by Kirkpatrick's training taxonomy) and educational development of their beneficiaries. A quantitative research approach was employed to investigate this relationship. A total of 300 responses from three leading NGOs were analysed using multiple regression analysis. The results suggest that NGOs' informal education and two training dimensions (learning and behaviour) contribute significantly to their clients' education while health, micro-credit, and the other training dimensions (reaction and result) have on effect. These findings have implications for strategic roles of NGOs also for future research in filling the gap between their programmes and implementation.

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NGOs in Bangladesh: Activities, resources, and governance

Cited by 99 publications

References 10 publications

Role of Nongovernmental Organization in Bangladesh. Are They Challenging the Government Power? A Case Study from Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

Role of Nongovernmental Organization in Bangladesh. Are They Challenging the Government Power? A Case Study from Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

Chevron's gift of CSR: moral economies of connection and disconnection in a transnational Bangladeshi village

Educational Development of NGO Beneficiaries in Bangladesh: A Disjunction between Programmes and Implementation

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