ISSN: 1998 - 4162
JISR MSSE Journal Contents
Volume 3, Number 2, July 2005
Dynamics of NGOs: A Pakistani Perspective
Dr. Mustaghis-ur-Rahman - SZABIST, Karachi, Pakistan
Abstract
In Pakistan, NGOs are growing in number and size and getting place for themselves as the third
sector of society. The reasons of NGOs becoming a third sector side by side the state and
business sectors are attributed to the ineffectiveness of state apparatus and failure of business
in providing the effective development mechanism at grass root level. In Pakistan where
socio-economic indicators are little appreciable, the state is looking towards other institutions
to share its responsibility of social welfare and development. Realizing the importance of NGOs
as a helping hand in socio-economic development by the present government, Citizen Community
Boards (CCBs), which are also a new form of citizen's initiatives, have become a part of the
local development mechanism in the Local Government Ordinance 2000.
NGOs which have
proved their importance in Bangladesh and other under developed countries of the world can play
crucial role in...
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