Verdens 100 beste NGO-er

BRAC (tidligere (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) er kåret til verdens beste ikke-statlige bistandsorganisasjon. Med sine 100 000 ansatte er BRAC også verdens største NGO. De ar blant annet vært svært sentral i gigantløftet Bangladesh har gjort når det gjelder befolkningens tilgang til helsetjenester.

The Global Journal har i forbindelse med kåringen identifisert non-profitt organisasjoner som er aktive på lokalt, nasjonalt eller internasjonalt nivå. 2013-listen inneholder organisasjoner fra 27 land og jobber på tvers av en rekke sektorer; alt fra offroad ambulanser som sikrer viktige helsetjenester på landsbygda i Afrika til organisasjoner som bruker flermediale metoder i kampen for menneskerettigheter. 

Dette er de viktigste kriteriene:

• effektivitet
• innovasjon
• bærekraft

I omtalen av organisasjonene skriver The Global Journal også at det i nødhjelps- og utviklingsverden er en håndfull organisasjoner som i etterkrigstiden, til tross for et bredt mandat, har fått et globalt omdømme for å være effektive.

Ingen norske organisasjoner har fått plass på topp 100-listen. Men Danske Flyktninghjelpen har endt på en fjerdeplass.

Leger uten grenser, Care International, Amnesty og Handicap International er blant de internasjonale organisasjonene som er med på topplisten.

Her har du verdens 30 beste NGO-er: 

1.BRAC

2.Wikimedia Foundation

 3.Acumen Fund

4.Danish Refugee Council

 5.Partners in Health

 6.Ceres

 7.CARE International

 8.Médecins Sans Frontières

 9.Cure Violence

 10.Mercy Corps

 11.APOPO

 12.Root Capital

 13.Handicap International

14.International Rescue Committee

15.Barefoot College

 16.Landesa

 17.Ashoka

 18.One Acre Fund

 19.Clinton Health Access Initiative

20.Heifer International

21.Human Rights Watch

22.Rare

23.Digital Divide Data

24.Akshaya Patra Foundation

25.Gram Vikas

26.Room to Read

27.Amnesty International

28.AMREF

29.Pratham

30.iDE

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Dette skriver juryen om BRAC:

After landing at a more than respectable fourth place in our inaugural Top 100 NGOs ranking, BRAC (formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) – the largest non government development organization on the planet – has claimed this year’s top spot. A member of the era defining 1970s wave of Bangladeshi microcredit and microfinance pioneers alongside the Grameen Bank and ASA, BRAC has since gone on to outpace its old counterparts and assume an unparalleled position in the crowded field of international development.

From the perspective of our ranking criteria – impact, innovation and sustainability – BRAC ticks every box. While still involved in the microfinance space – to the tune of approximately $9 billion – the organization has carefully, but steadily, diversified into a wide suite of activities, from agriculture and food security to education, legal aid, climate change risk reduction, livelihoods support and maternal and child health. Rather than spreading BRAC’s resources too thin, this strategy has instead remained faithful to founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed’s vision of a holistic, sustainable approach to poverty reduction. Indeed, BRAC is in a unique position to use its microfinance base as a social platform to deliver innovative scaled up services aligned to a principled, rights-based philosophy.

As we noted last year, BRAC is in many ways a microcosm of the entire international development sector in one organization, albeit gaining in independence from donor influence each year as it covers almost 80 percent of its $572 million operating budget through a burgeoning portfolio of catalytic social enterprises – a clear trend positioning the organization in an enviable position of financial and programmatic sustainability. Yet rather than taking this as a cue to rest on its laurels, BRAC has at the same time used its considerable resources and in-house human capital to build an expansive and dedicated monitoring and evaluation apparatus, with positive flow on effects for the entire sector.

Ultimately, BRAC has evolved into a giant of an NGO in a way that some could see as problematic – a non-public entity that touches the lives of more than 126 million people. Reassuringly, however, while size is not often an indication of quality, BRAC represents a welcome outlier and a continuing force for good at the global level.

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