NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION

"Any civil, voluntary and non-profit organization."

(United Nations)

Corporations

Foundations

Agencies

Associations

Cooperatives

The first NGO in favor of the abolition of slavery in the 18th Centenary.

Many others to take care of the victims of the First and the Second World War.

But the first NGO considered as such is … “Red Cross” (1863).

The term NGO was born in 1945.

(Article 71 of the Charter of the United Nations)

Voluntary Sector

Solidarity Sector

Social Sector

Social Economy

Non-Profit Sector

Organizations of Civil Sector

Third Sector

Non – profit.

Services and activities of public uses.

Particular initiatives.

Common benefits and human changes.

Process of organization, participation and emporwerment.

Purpose and objetives are defined by their members.

Their members are volunteers.

Legal status.

Non governmental.

States.

Other NGOs.

Government .

Companies

International organizations.

Individuals donations.

Generate transformation processes:

Promote and protect the human rights.

personal, family, social, political, economics and cultural changes.

•Local•Regional•National •International

• Humanitarian aid.• Public Health.• Human rights.• Scientific research.• Economic and human development.• Culture and citizen participation.• Ecology: protection of the environment.• Technology.• Cooperation for development.• Education.• Migration.• Citizen participation.

Anyone can work with an NGO , through economic and / or doing work donations.

 

Anyone can work with an NGO , through economic and / or doing work donations.

 

• We are going to show you four of the most common NGO’s

• Unicef was born in the year 1946 by decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

• Its purpose was to help European children after the Second World War.

• Unicef’s vocation is work for children regardless of race, nationality or religion, and to make protection of their rights over any interest.

• It provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

• Greenpeace was born in 1971, in a very spontaneous way. A group of Canadian antinuclear activists who had fled to Canada to not take part in the Vietnam War, formed a small organization called “Do not Make a Wave Committee”

• Greenpeace’s goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity“.

• It focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues.

• It is an international humanitarian movement that was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

• The movement consists of several distinct organizations that are legally independent from each other. The movement's parts are:

• The International Committee of the Red Cross. is a private humanitarian institution founded in 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland. It protect the life and dignity of the victims of international and internal armed conflicts.

• The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies was founded in 1919.

• National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: exist in nearly every country in the world. Each one works in its home country according to the principles of international humanitarian law and the statutes of the international Movement.

• It was born in Barcelona in 1988, to guarantee the universal right to quality education for every children, through international cooperation projects in Latin America and programs in Spain.

• Education Without Borders focuses its work on International Cooperation, Development Education and Awareness campaigns and reporting. The organization is part of the Coordinator of Non-Governmental Organizations for Development of Spain.

• It is currently working in 7 countries of Latin America: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

• In Spain, it develops awareness actions directed to more people committed to a more united world and promotes campaigns to demand quality public education for everyone.