What is the significance and purpose of Non-Government Organisations?

Answer 1

Private organizations (i.e. non-government orgs) offer ways for people to find other people with similar interests. People are gregarious by nature. (Means they like to gather in small groups.) People join the private organizations as a social outlet and (sometimes) to satisfy a psychological need.

Herbert Maslow did motivational studies many years ago. He found that if someone was above the level of simple survival and was able to achieve at least some level of security, the next motivational hurdle was for the person to do something for self-gratification. (Keep your mind out of the gutter on that one.) Maslow was referring to doing something that had some social significance, something that made you feel good after you did it. Like volunteering at a shelter or helping clean up the environment or gathering with persons of similar interests to discuss some mutually fascinating topic.

Answer 2

Sadly, the two previous answers were **not** describing NGO's.

NGO's are multi-national organizations which take on a variety of issues - from advocacy to more direct forms of assistance (the Peace Corps is an NGO, for example). Basically, they're exactly what the name implies: a large organization - spanning either a single country or perhaps a continent, hemisphere or the entire globe - which may possess the means to take on large projects and initiatives normally handled by government...but not actually being a government-sponsored or sanctioned body.

Answer 3

The significance of a non-government organization simply because it has not dealing with government subsdised funds and/policy, it is funded on its own. A non-government organization is not neccessarily play the role of not interwind the government matters. It can do whatever they want to do. The purpose of a Non-government organization is not being manipulating or controlling by the government agencies and they decide how to aim and achieve their goals on their own. Although it occasionally being influenced by government matters, but it seldom happens.

Answer 4

NGO's are there to do stuff that's beneath the government. if they spent all their time deciding how much to pay for potatoes or whatever they'd have no time to do the important stuff like mess up the country!!

Answer 5

they help to push legislation... NGO's can pressure senators and other politicians to pass laws in their favor, for example like if an NGO really advocates something to do with health care, they can pressure a senator to do something about it. They also give money to people that need it, like charity organizations and such