Why pay NGOs to involve the community?

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We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an NGO. Higher community participation is consistent even with reduced beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may improve beneficiary welfare. We provide evidence from the NGO sector in Uganda consistent with our theoretical conclusions. Beneficiaries themselves do not appear to perceive community participation as generating appreciable value-addition in project output.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CREDIT Research Paper ; No. 14/01

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship ; Public Policy
• Subject: Regulation of non-governmental organizations ; developing countries ; community participation ; Uganda

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Burger, Ronelle ; Dasgupta, Indraneel ; Owens, Trudy
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)
• (where): Nottingham
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/96351
• Last update: 10.03.2023, 11:42 AM CET