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Pakistan
National Workshop on Indicators of Sustainable Development
12-13 October 1998
Islamabad
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
In cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, Local Government and Rural Development, Government of Pakistan
Annex II
INDICATORS OF NGO PERFORMANCE
- Law under which registered.
- Membership
Categories
Numbers
- Membership Fee
Regularity with which membership fee is collected.
Disqualification of Members who do not pay.
- Annual General Meetings
Schedule
Meetings that are missed.
When the last meeting was held.
- Election of Governing Body (or Executive Committee).
a. Schedule of elections
b. When last elections held
- Meetings of Governing Body
a. Schedule
b. How often held
c. Date of last meeting
- Whether Members of Governing Body (or Executive Committee) and the office bearers are:
a. Honorary
b. Paid
Nature of payment made to them:
Honorarium (fixed or per meeting)
Transport (cash or kind)
House (rent or kind)
Secretarial assistance
Staff support (servants)
Others
- Leadership
How often the leader is changed?
Whether nominated/elected?
Since when the present leader (President) is in Office.
- Decision-Making
Who makes decisions in NGOs?
General Body
Executive Body (Board of Directors)
Community
The process of decision-making.
Conflicts of interests.
How often non-Members are invited to participate in the work of NGO.
- Role of Women
Involvement of women in the affairs of the organization and decision-making.
- Office
Whether the NGO has office, telephone, fax, e-mail?
What is the method of communication with members?
- Accounts:
a. Preparation of Accounts;
b. Audit of Accounts;
c. Circulation of accounts to Members;
d. Approval of accounts by Members at the Annual General Meeting
e. Ratio of expenditure on establishment as percentage of expenditure on -
project costs;
services.
f. Procedure for withdrawal of funds from bank accounts:
(one signature, two signatures, three signatures).
- Audit
What are the audit practices?
Internal Audit
External Audit
Government Audit
Commercial Audit
How the audit reports are disseminated to the members(General Body)?
- Annual Report:
How many reports have so far been prepared;
Circulation to members;
Approval of Annual Report at AGM.
Filing of Annual Report with the registering authority (dates).
- Activities:
Sectors:
Focus on
a. Urban
b. Rural
c. Male
d. Female
e. Children
f. The Disabled
g. Poverty
Nature of projects:
awareness
lobbying
others
- Projects undertaken
- Sources of funding:
(donation, grant, endowment, investment, income, loan, cost recovery, other)
- Community work
Community mobilization.
How often Members visit the community.
- Evaluation
of projects
of the NGO as a whole
a. Internal Evaluation.
b. External Evaluation.
- Sustainability
Dependence of the NGO on -
Grants
Loans
Prospects for making the NGO sustainable
Steps being taken in that direction.