NGO Management

Organisational development is the systematic practice of improving an organisation’s effectiveness in an orderly and thoughtful manner. This should make sense to committed and experienced leaders who know that it usually takes persistence and long-term effort to achieve anything of real value. Leaving it entirely up to human resources consultants is a mistake, rather NGO leaders need to be involved, and understand the principles of this important practice

The global financial crisis makes it essential that we focus on the need for donors to meet their targets; ensure that available resources are optimised, that the priorities for expenditure are right; and that we look at ways of saving money and at neglected sources of financing. As is the practice in many African cultures, if your fire burns out, you fetch some from the neighbours

High staff turnover due to a lack of adequate subsidisation by Government, plagues many South African NGOs, which struggle to provide the necessary services to communities in need. In the Eastern Cape subsidies used to pay social workers have not been increased in two years, while social auxiliary workers are subsidised on the Department of Social Development’s 2002 scales

I want to express my frustration at the fact that the people at Lotto are allowed to be so chaotic and unprofessional. We are willing to undergo rigorous selection, and to deal with being rejected with good reason. What I am not willing to do, is to sit by and tolerate the incompetent antics of a group of people who are short changing the NPO sector