Attitudes toward NGOs
Publisher: Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM), Montenegro
Date: March-April 2007
Volume: 34 pages, pdf
Description
NGO’s in Montenegro have become integral part of socio - political life. Today, in Montenegro is almost impossible to find the area of social life where one or more NGO’s does not have influence. Except, they differ by areas of social acting, between NGO’s exists number of other differences. The key difference probably, is level of social penetration and influence that NGO’s are making. In other words, some NGO’s have great influence on entire public, special institutions and social circles, where on the other hand is certain that one part of NGO’s doesn’t have this kind of influence, therefore their influence ends somewhere on the margins of public life. Also, within NGO sector important differences are between some NGO’s from aspect of professionalism and expertise, and again in this aspect some NGO’s have very high level, while some are on the ’’other side’’of professionalism. Surely, there are important organizational differences within NGO’s. While for some of them is characteristic good organization and great number of individuals, work of the others is often ’’оne man show’’, and without aspirations that such individualization of organization transforms in some collective form of acting. Beside the mentioned differences, there are other differences in NGO sector. The painful one is nature of financing and interests of certain social groups that are represented by NGO’s. Finally it’s very important to mention the differences between specific social groups.