Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

The role non-governmental organisations play for social development is rapidly growing across the world.

Besides traditional fields of non-governmental activity such as welfare, youth, women, and environmental protection, these organisations are increasingly extending their efforts to other spheres of public life, including job generation and structural adjustment programmes, cultural activities, as well as vocational training and education, just to give some examples.

NGOs are thus more and more becoming a complementing or even substituting factor of governmental action and an instrument for balancing out different interests in human societies.

Non-governmental organisations working on development issues also have to face more complex challenges:

NGOs from developing and transitional countries play a growing role and act more self-confident resulting in their increasing involvement in co-operation programmes with bilateral and multilateral development aid organisations and donors.

At the same time, non-governmental organisations of Western countries working in the field of development co-operation are confronted with additional and new tasks in terms of quality and quantity. Their traditional strongholds such as poverty alleviation and provision of basic infrastructure facilities have, recently, been extended to also cover issues like management consulting, democracy promotion programmes, gender concepts and introduction of new environmentally sound technologies.

 

euroCom

 

euroCom is a German non-governmental organisation founded in Berlin in 1989 with the original aim to arrange social, cultural and ecological co-operation projects between the West and the East.

Troughout the 1990ies euroCom’s activities covered a number of countries of different development levels the world, in particular in (Eastern)Europe, the Near and Middle East and Africa.

By co-operating with other non-governmental organisations and charities on a project-to-project basis, euroCom’s work is aimed at pursuing the following goals:

Furthermore, euroCom collaborates with a variety of German and European organisations working in different sectors and utilises their specific skills and experience for providing counselling services and professional inputs to projects in third countries.

 

Selected Projects:

1st Phase (1994 - 1996)

2nd Phase (1997 - 1999)

euroCom

Gesellschaft für europäische Kommunikation e.V.

Brachvogelstr. 1

10961 Berlin - Kreuzberg

http://www.eurocom.org


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