{"id":235201,"date":"2023-03-30T20:20:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235201"},"modified":"2023-04-02T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T13:02:36","slug":"civil-society-organizations-require-wholesome-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/civil-society-organizations-require-wholesome-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil society organizations require wholesome support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0<strong>\u201cCivil society organizations require wholesome support<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>Live Mint <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>30<sup>th<\/sup> March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 <\/strong><strong>Governance \u2013 Non-Governmental Organisations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>concerns associated with CSOs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and other kinds of not-for-profit organizations are working for societal improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses concerns associated with CSOs.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the concerns associated with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Donors want to support costs which are incurred for programs and activities that directly deliver the desired benefits or improvements to intended communities.<\/p>\n<p>However, they don\u2019t want to support other costs involved in the operation of the CSOs, known as <strong>overhead cost<\/strong>. It is impractical for a CSO to only focus on the outcome while neglecting other costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example,<\/strong> a CSO working with public schools to enhance learning will have team members who train and assist teachers. Their salaries and activity costs are just as essential as the teaching-learning-material and resources given to schools.<\/p>\n<p>The donors in this case, will be ready to support teaching material and not for the salaries and expenses for the staff of CSOs.<\/p>\n<p>Further, <strong>donors expect CSOs to be strong and stable organizations<\/strong> which have good processes, sound accounting and reporting, leadership succession and development, the capacity to scale up, and more.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>a CSO can only become stable when it is being financially supported for these things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some donors provide support for CSO <strong>overhead expenses ranging from 5-10% of the cost base<\/strong>, which is very low given the enormous amount of expense needed by CSOs to function.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, a reasonable donation for overhead cost should range from 15%-25%.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, <strong>donors are also reluctant to commit long term funding for CSOs<\/strong>. This has weakening effect on Indian civil society.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What can be the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Donors usually look for a strong, vibrant and high-capacity CSO ecosystem. This is only possible when they start supporting CSOs objectives along with their overhead costs wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cCivil society organizations require wholesome support\u201d published in Live Mint on\u00a030th March 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance \u2013 Non-Governmental Organisations Relevance: concerns associated with CSOs News: Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and other kinds of not-for-profit organizations are working for societal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/civil-society-organizations-require-wholesome-support\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Civil society organizations require wholesome support<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[11357,212,10501,7212],"class_list":["post-235201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-civil-society","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","tag-ngo","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":7,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698259560},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}