Workshop Report: "Seeking NGO-Donor Partnership for Greater Effectiveness and Accountability", IADB (2004)

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and donors increasingly face the twin challenges of demonstrating effectiveness in their work and accountability in their relationships with various stakeholders. Donors, on one hand, are particularly concerned about accountability of NGOs in the efficient and effective delivery of services. NGOs, on the other hand, are often concerned that accountability to donors can overshadow and overwhelm their accountability to communities and to their own missions.

The intent of this workshop was to find common ground for building partnerships that could improve both effectiveness and accountability. The workshop posed two broad questions:

• How can donors assist NGOs in improving their effectiveness, efficiency, and governance?
• How can NGOs assist donors in better understanding their needs, constraints and priorities?

In order to grapple with these questions in some depth, the workshop was designed to be small and intensive, and involved a series of breakout discussion sessions over a 2-day period. The event involved 46 participants, of which approximately half were representatives of NGOs in Latin America and the Caribbean, one-third were representatives of large donors (primarily the Inter-American Development Bank – IDB, but also the World Bank and the Ford Foundation),and the remainder were scholars or members of the NGO community in Washington, D.C.

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