Networking with nongovernment organizations

Nongovernment organizations (NGOs) are increasingly important and active in developing countries, frequently filling the gaps left by diminishing government resources and capacity.

Here are some objectives of networking with nongovernment organizations:

• To develop cooperation
• To encourage them to make local language literacy a component of their educational activities

• Participate in a national federation of nongovernment organizations.

  Results: You can make extensive contacts in the NGO community.

• Make visits.
• Contact people at meetings.
• Send reports.
• Exchange documentation.

• Task module: Networking with nongovernment organizations
• In task module: Networking at the national level
• In task module: Establishing a broad networking base
• In task module: Networking in a language program, by Clinton D. W. Robinson (contributor), Stephen L. Walter (contributor), Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In task module: Assembling a local literacy team
• In task module: Preparing for a literacy program
• In modular book: Prepare for a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Mary Morgan, and Leah B. Walter
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 16 February 1999

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