Introduction:
The NGOs like Relief India Trust, which are operating in the developing economies like India face several challenges on a daily basis. Some challenges are tackled timely while for some of the challenges the NGOs normally prefer to compromise. Efforts are being made by most of the NGOs to minimize such issues so that the productivity of the NGOs is maximized and maximum numbers of people are facilitated by the NGO. These challenges and problems become a lot bigger in case of unforeseen circumstances or emergencies like flood, earthquake etc. where a lot of NGOs sometimes feel helpless. This is where the NGOs strategy and risk mitigation plan becomes pivotal and it depends that how effectively, they incorporate such plans into their operational system. The Relief India Trust Ngo despite huge success and several successful projects to its credit do have some weaknesses as well. Although they are not something unique to them, but in general almost all the NGOs have such weaknesses.
Weaknesses of NGO:
Here we will talk in general about the weaknesses of NGO and we wouldn’t be getting particular about the Relief India Trust NGO. Following are some of the weaknesses that most of the NGOs either operating in India or anywhere in the world face:
• The small size of an NGO is in itself a big problem as they have very limited scope of operational work in the practical field where the help or relief work is needed. The small size of NGOs very rarely addresses the basic factors, especially of the rural poverty. They are unable to work at the grass root level and they just look and try to solve the problem at a broader level.
• Some urban locations of the country have got flooded with the NGOs unnecessarily. This triggers a lot more problems rather than soling due to the unhealthy competition between the NGOs. Most of the NGOs in such locations are mostly looking to degrade the other Ngo rather than doing some productive work in order to serve the purpose for which an NGO is created.
• In the agricultural sector, the small NGOs have very limited capacity, especially in the technological and other agricultural resources sector. Further, the NGOs in the agricultural sector are often found helpless in creating useful demand-pull on the services given by the state government of the country.
• There are some NGOs in India who have a very weak accountability structure. This badly exposes their administration and becomes a big hurdle in generating funds for the NGO. The reason is that most of the NGOs have made themselves more accountable for the foreign funding and donor rather than giving the equal importance for the local donors are well who are actually part of the system for which the NGO is working for. Neglecting them might trigger some serious problems and the NGO can fail badly under such circumstances. Although, the international donors are also very important, but the NGOs can’t just overlook the local importance.
Relief India Trust 