Governmental organization
See also: ONG
A governmental organization or ONG is an organization of public interest which concerns neither the State nor of an international institution. ONG do not have the statute of subject of International law.
The practice is to hold the term with the moral persons with nonlucrative goal financed on important amounts by private funds. Thanks to the contribution of the sociology of the organizations, the principal criteria defining an ONG are
According to the contexts of the ground, other bodies of the United Nations can also coordinate the various actions: Office for the Coordination off Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the High Commission of the United Nations for the refugees (HCR), and to accredit of ONG: WHO, FAO.
Rewarded actions
The action of ONG remains however overall beneficial for the populations to which they are addressed.
Thus, in 1997 the international Countryside for the prohibition of the anti-personnel mines, cofondée by 6 ONG whose Handicap International is seen decreeing the Nobel Prize of peace with its coordinator Jody Williams.
In 1999, also, ONG Doctors without borders receives the Nobel Prize of peace.
Professionalisation of ONG
Since the end of the year 1990, one witnessed a rise to power of ONG: mediatization of the needs, recourse to the humanitarian after armed operations…
ONG have more and more technical skills, which make them credible and allow them to be consulted and listened at the great international meetings.
Since the years 2000, private large companies sign partnerships with of ONG in order to acquiring a more complete view of the mondialized environment, and in order to have competences helping them with better perceiving waitings of the consumers and the markets. This is more perceptible in the Anglo-Saxon and Japanese world.
ONG must answer even more professionally than in the past. Certain French organizations approached a little the Anglo-Saxon system (employee job whereas before voluntariate was the rule), and turn to candidates which present professional knowledge in various sectors. It became imperative, at least for of ONG of intermediate size to large, to present track records before postulating.
Among the sought profiles, are doctors and other health professionals, agronomists, engineers and technicians in water treatment, professionals of the BTP (roads, constructions), logisticians, administrators and accountants…
In order to meet this need for professionalisation of ONG, more and more of universities and schools specific trainings set up at ONG, in addition to the existing formations (course of one or more years in dedicated schools, such as Bioforce with Lyon or the professional License mention international project control of Co-development to Besancon).
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