1Assistant professor, Professor and Head, Department of Rural Development and Planning, School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development Nagaland University, Nagaland-797106
2Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Extension, School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development, Nagaland University, Nagaland-797106
3Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development
Online published on 30 March, 2019.
This study aims to report on management problems in implementing development works as perceived by the NGOs ’employees and measures suggested for improvement in Nagaland, India. In this study 45 NGOs were selected and from each NGO one higher level of employee was interviewed as respondent. The functional areas of development management of developmental organizations were taken into consideration in this study viz. Planning, Financing, Organizing and Leading. The respondents were asked open ended questions to mention most important problems for each of the functional area of management which they were facing and also to suggest measures for organizational effectiveness. Important identified problem(s) are donors terms of support and plan not matching properly, untimely and irregular fund flow, lack of technical staff and frequently relinquishing the organization, lack of proper office space and furniture, lack of coordination between NGO and Govt. development functionaries, lack of regular supervision of daily activities in different areas and language problem, and suggestion(s) against the problems are-Flexibility in plan and scope of modification as per requirement, regular and timely fund flow, consultancy service from resource personnel, GO-NGOs collaboration, Popularization of Nagamese Language to address the language and communication problem
NGOs, development management, planning, financing, organizing and leading
