Managing NGOs
A handbook of NGO governance
Principles for good NGO governance
Authors:
M. Wyatt; European Centre for Not-for-profit Law
Publisher:
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, 2004
The central and Eastern European Working Group on Nonprofits Governance has been exploring challenges facing nonprofits boards since its founding in 2001. A set of guidelines that could promote a shared regional understanding of good governance was drafted. This has formed the basis of the handbook on NGO Governance.
The handbook is based on the following principles:
- NGOs are accountable to their communities
- Good governance is a basic form of accountability
- Good governance has a formal structure
- Good governance involves the separation of governance and government
- NGOs are mission-based organisations
- NGOs promote the highest professional and ethical standards
- NGOs exercise responsible resource management and mobilization
- NGOs are responsive to the communities they serve
The hand book serves as a guide to good governance no matter what stage of maturity the organisation or its country’s NGO sector.
