Simon Heap,
NGOs and the Private Sector: Potential for Partnerships?
INTRAC Occasional Papers Series no. 27A In Russian.
(October 1999) ISBN 1-897748-54-X. 42pp.
Changes in the external environment are having major implications
for the roles of NGOs: their sources of funding; the nature of their
relationships; and their activities. The private sector is an
increasingly important target for NGOs as they grapple with
possible new modes of engagement in their quest to promote
Sustainable Development. NGOs are engaging with the private
sector in new ways, yet the dynamics of relationships between
NGOs and the private sector has been very little researched. The
aim of INTRAC's research on NGOs, the Private Sector and their
Constituencies, funded mainly by the Ford Foundation, is to find
out whether, when and how NGOs and the private sector can
effectively work together. This paper synthesises the findings from
Phase One of the research, which was a mapping exercise to
outline and analyse the existing and newly emerging relationships
between NGOs and the private sector. For organisations having to
make strategic and operational decisions about the nature of their
contribution to international development co-operation, this
research project's analysis of the issues affecting their work is of
key strategic importance to both NGOs and the private sector.
Simon Heap, Gulmira Jamanova, Edil Osmorbetov, Syrgak
Salmorbekov, Dina Shukurova & Marat Terterov,
Emerging NGO-business relations in Central Asia,
INTRAC Occasional Papers Series No. 33, February 2000,
ISBN: 1-897748-56-6. 54pp. In English.
This paper presents the findings from the Central Asian republics of
Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as part of INTRAC's global
inquiry into the evolving nature of relationships between NGOs and
the Private Sector. These three national reviews examine the
country-specific factors that determine different levels of NGO-
business relations, and explore the potential for the two sectors to
work together for future development. To help both NGOs and
business in their dealings with each other, the benefits and
drawbacks of engaging are outlined and the lessons of engagement
are collated through case studies. In Kazakstan, case studies
range from the adversarial relations between ecological NGOs and
companies extracting oil and gas from the north Caspian Sea
region, through NGOs selling services, to NGOs like the Special
Olympics which have multiple charitable relations with the
corporate sector. In Kyrgyzstan, results of a detailed survey are
presented, while the Business Women’s Association of Uzbekistan
is examined in detail as well as other promising signs of NGO-
business collaborations in the region. This paper’s analysis of the
issues is of key strategic importance to NGOs and donors as well
as companies in both Central Asia and beyond.
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