What Challenges are countered By Relief India Trust in proving their Effectiveness?

Introduction:

The Relief India Trust faces several operational and administrative challenges on a daily basis. Their success lies in their successful tackling of such challenges put forward to them. The good administration of NGOs is critical for their effectiveness in the practical field where their services are required. The idea is to first empower all their staff by giving them full authority in whatever domain they are working. Then it will be much easier for the NGOs gain trust of all the stakeholders, including the government and the donors as well.

Challenges faced by NGOs in poverty Alleviation:
The Relief India Trust and a lot of other NGOs face the following challenges for poverty alleviation in maintaining their loyalty towards their goals and objectives:

• The huge difference between the lifestyles and pay scales of national and international workers can significantly result in local inflation. Several problems are triggered due to this reason and poverty control becomes an even bigger problem.
• Poverty alleviation could be achieved over a certain period of time. The short term goals in poverty alleviation do not produce satisfactory results and the NGO’s management might think that they are off track.
• The reputable organizations, even sometimes fail to prioritize their tasks, especially in working together with local partners.
• Several NGOs fail to initiate an effective communication with the communities where they are working for poverty alleviation. The NGOs face problems when their representatives don’t know the local language or they don’t understand that what exactly their basic needs are. The locals for whom the NGOs are working often don’t cooperate with the NGOs when they feel that the NGOs are not addressing their actual needs. It shows that helping the poor people is not important, but helping them in the right way using the right approach is much important.

NGOs accountability to the communities they are working for:
All the NGOs are accountable to the communities they are working for. This can be achieved by first developing a good relationship with the communities where the NGOs are working to alleviate poverty. The Relief India Trust NGO tries its best to start its work from the grass root level and develop a good relationship with the community where they are operating for poverty eradication. Then the work of the aid provision starts of the NGOs and this way ensures that the aid is well received by the communities. The aid provided to the community should not only be financial, but there are several other services as well which can alleviate poverty. The aid provided by NGOs should:

• Empower locals and reinforce society processes.
• Essentially be based on respect, mutual exchange of ideas and long term partnership.
• Focus primarily on poverty issues. It is believed that if poverty is properly addressed, then all other issues would eradicate automatically at least to some extent.
• Be sustainable, transparent and extremely accountable.