Enhancing Non-Governmental Organization capacity through organization development

Abstract

Partnership with local NGOs has become an important feature in the development sector. The NGOs bring the advantage of being indigenous organization with close links to communities they serve. Organizational development as a management practice applies relevant knowledge areas, information, technologies and other measures to improve the processes of organizational change.

As NGOs have grown in scale they have recognized limits to their own effectiveness and begun to examine management and organizational issues in more depth. Organizations have recognized the need to have strong organizational framework if they are to continue to make any continuous impact in the development sector, attract aid funding and recognition.

NGOs continue to face multiple issues in credibility and competence and hence the need for OD interventions to assist them improve their internal structures .However there are challenges in strengthening the NGO sector in many African countries because despite NGOs having knowledge on good OD practices in reality they face significant challenges in translating OD principles into good practice.

Keywords: organization development, Non Govermental Organizations, capacity building, environmental CSOs