Challenges Facing Local NGOs in Resource Mobilization

Rehema C. Batti

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Challenges Facing Local NGOs in Resource Mobilization

Rehema C. Batti

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Received: 12 May 2014 Accepted: 21 May 2014 Published: 30 May 2014

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Abstract

Development organizations need resources to help them continue providing services to the community. Non Govermental Organizations (NGOs) for a long time have relied on the generosity of donors to support their project activities through grants and donations. However organizations have realized that such funding sources are often insufficient to meet needs and rising costs for project implementation. In Africa despite vast differences among the NGOs most share a common challenge of unlimited needs chasing limited resources. Local NGOs face difficulties securing enough funds because the projects undertaken require substantial amounts of resources, both financial and non-financial due to high poverty levels in most parts of the continent. Resource mobilization requires a lot of time and skills to seek resources from different sources and the pressure to mobilize resources may lead the organizations to use methods that compromise the values they are fighting for through their work.

Published in	Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.hss.20140203.12
Page(s)	57-64
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Resource Mobilization in Local NGOs, Fundraising in NGOs, Challenges in Resource Mobilization

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