NGO's Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024
What does NGO represent? - ANSWER-A Non Government Organisation.
What is an NGO? - ANSWER-- An organisation that is not part of the Government or a conventional profit business.
- Can be funded by governments, business, private people, foundations ...
NGO's Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024
What does NGO represent? - ANSWER-A Non Government Organisation.
What is an NGO? - ANSWER-- An organisation that is not part of the Government or a conventional profit
business. - Can be funded by governments, business, private people, foundations and charities.
- Can gain a charitable status, which allows them to be tax exempt and gain charitable expenditures, e.g. reduced rental income.
What can some NGO's be fronts for? - ANSWER-Political and religious interests.
List 8 names that are used to refer to NGO's in other countries. - ANSWER-- Non-profit Organisation (NPO).
- Third Sector Organisation (TSO).
- Voluntary Organisation (VO).
- Civil Society Organisation (CSO).
- Grassroots Organisation (GO).
- Social Movement (SMO).
- Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO).
- Self-Help Organisation (SHO).
What organisations were international NGO's important in? - ANSWER-- Anti-slavery movement.
- Womens suffrage.
Explain the differences between NGO's and NPO's. - ANSWER-NGO's
- Large area of operation (create bigger impact). - Works for the betterment of society and economy.
- Brings awareness of human right and womens empowerment.
NPO's - Limited area of operation (limited in ways to approach message).
- Promotes art, science and commerce or any other useful purpose.
What do NGO's deal with? - ANSWER-- Human rights.
- Environment.
- Improving health.
- Development.
Name the 2 categories of NGO's. - ANSWER-Operational NGO's - focuses on the development of projects.
Advocacy NGO's - organised to promote particular causes.
Some NGO's can be classed as both.
Name 5 examples of NGO's. - ANSWER-BINGO - Business Friendly International NGO, e.g. Red Cross, which promote their cause and liasise with buinsesses.
ENGO - Environmental NGO, e.g. WWF, Greenpeace, Conservational International and Friends of the Earth.
GONGO - Government-organised NGO, e.g. Red Cross Society of China and World Without Nazism (most are funded by the Government).
INGO - International NGO, e.g. CARE International, Amnesty International and Oxfam (can be religious).
QUANGO - Quasi-autonomous NGO.
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