Local NGOs provide humanitarian aid and focus on immediate issues in their immediate environment, with limited finances. International NGOs may assist local NGOs in achieving their objectives, as they have more resources and expertise, but may face cultural and trust barriers.
A local non-governmental organization (NGO) is a type of organization dedicated to providing some kind of benefit to society, usually in the form of humanitarian aid. The difference between a local NGO and international NGOs is that a local NGO is more grassroots oriented than international NGOs. That is, programs initiated and embarked on by local NGOs are more concerned with immediate issues related to the immediate environment in which they are located. Another big difference between an international NGO and a local NGO is the fact that this scope of the local NGO is more limited, and the finances are also very limited compared to the kind of resources the international NGO has to work with.
Indeed, part of the aim of some international NGOs is to assist locally affiliated NGOs in realizing their objectives, either by financial means or through the provision of aid and other forms of assistance that local NGOs may require. To that end, a local NGO situated in a remote village somewhere in South America can be directed towards eradicating a specific disease that is peculiar to the inhabitants of that village. In such a situation, the local NGO may largely depend on the help of international NGOs involved in general disease eradication as well as providing medical care. More often than not, it is this interrelationship between the two types of NGOs that has the greatest impact in terms of achieving the objectives of the two NGOs, due to the fact that one NGO may not be able to competently address all of the underlying factors that constitute challenges to the achievement of objectives.
For example, an internationally affiliated NGO is likely to have some challenges in terms of administering its manifesto in different countries around the world due to the challenges raised by culture, language and other forms of barriers, including issues of trust. This may not be a problem for a locally oriented NGO, as language and culture will not be an issue, and the locals in question will not have the same kind of trust issues with citizens as with foreigners. In addition, locally oriented NGOs also have some form of leverage with locals that can be used to help achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.
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