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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India face several challenges. They aim to serve disadvantaged communities and work for their welfare. However, NGOs struggle with a lack of stable funding, which jeopardizes their ability to continuously operate and support projects. They also face issues with strategic planning, as good ideas sometimes fail due to inefficient execution. Additionally, networking among members and partners can sometimes lead to unhealthy competition rather than cooperation. To overcome these challenges, NGOs must secure diverse and reliable funding sources, engage in strategic planning, and foster a spirit of collaboration instead of competition among networking partners.

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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India face several challenges. They aim to serve disadvantaged communities and work for their welfare. However, NGOs struggle with a lack of stable funding, which jeopardizes their ability to continuously operate and support projects. They also face issues with strategic planning, as good ideas sometimes fail due to inefficient execution. Additionally, networking among members and partners can sometimes lead to unhealthy competition rather than cooperation. To overcome these challenges, NGOs must secure diverse and reliable funding sources, engage in strategic planning, and foster a spirit of collaboration instead of competition among networking partners.

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Challenges faced by NGOs in India


Non-governmental Organisations are organisations as such that offer a unique combination of
private structure and public purpose, operate flexibly at all scales, are connected to citizens and
have the capacity to tap private initiative in support of public purposes, they are nowadays
being looked upon to perform an increasing number of socio-legal functions to improve and
give boost to governmental provisions and awareness of benefits facilitated.

More such Functions are listed below:


1. Building community ties and reinforcing the bonds of trust and reciprocity necessary
for political stability and economic prosperity
2. Empowering the disadvantaged, in an attempt to bring their unaddressed problems to
public attention
3. Helping deliver vital human services, such as health and education
4. Mobilising individual initiative in the pursuit of common good
5. Giving expression to artistic, religious, cultural, ethnic, cultural and recreational
impulses
Therefore, NGOs are primarily aimed at serving the community at large, specially the
disempowered, and working for their welfare. Millions of illiterates, poor, impoverished and
disadvantaged citizens are marginalised and unable to lead a life of dignity.

These people are committed to and value the spirit of ‘service’ to society. When like-minded
people who want to ‘serve’ their community and society at large decide to work together in a
structured way, they form what is today commonly called an NGO.
However, there are certain major challenges that the members of such community’s face in
working towards betterment that leads to failure of NGO’s.

Lack of Fund: for the succession of projects taken up by NGO’s, they seek benefits from source
persons willingness to help. In order to keep helping other individuals they need to constantly
acquire funds. Although supporters and partner organizations will continue to fund NGO cause,
they might decide to fund different NGO’s. this puts NGOs in jeopardy given that there are
also many operational costs.
Secondly, due to lack of Strategic Planning many bright ideas get flooded away due to
inefficiency of appropriate execution. This also leads to confusion among members that leads
them to sway away from their initial goal. This could help with through consistent working and
learning of the bottom-line criteria of issues.

Next issue is the problem of networking. The thing with networking is that most members need
to work together to achieve success however this may turn out to be competition among
individuals that could distort the idea of togetherness for success. To resolve this, it is important
to not have such a competitive mindset instead an opportunity to learn and practice
togetherness.

NGOs are organizations who people look up to and may seem to have it all, but just like others,
also struggle in more ways imaginable. Like many others, NGOs are not perfect and also go
through a trial-and-error stage. Hence, when things don’t go as planned, it’s important to
always be prepared and come up with alternatives.

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