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[INDIA] Software to help NGOs assess performance
Software to help NGOs assess performance
15
February 2003, Bhubaneshwar, India
Source: The Newindpress
Coutesy:
Propoor.org
An Indian voluntary groups says it has developed
software that can help NGOs across South Asia gauge whether or not they are
making a difference to society.
The Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD),
which works among tribals in Orissa, said it had developed OSANGO
(Organisational Self-Analysis for NGOs) with the help of professionals and
experts in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
"NGOs with three or more years of experience, with
10 or more staff and having an annual budget of one million or more in local
currencies will find OSANGO very useful," CYSD head Jagadananda told IANS
here.
Sylvia Borren, the executive director of the
Netherlands Organisation for Development Cooperation (NOVIB), will launch the
software at a function in New Delhi on Friday.
Jagadananda, a member of the NGO advisory group of
the Commonwealth Foundation in London, said voluntary groups often find it
difficult to gauge their strengths and weaknesses. OSANGO is designed to help
NGOs, particularly those working in South Asian countries, assess their
performance.
OSANGO, he said, is a user-friendly software
package that enables NGOs to undertake survey-based self-analysis in an
economical, autonomous manner while ensuring complete confidentiality. It can
generate useful futuristic baseline data and benchmarking, provides analysis of
performance and potential, he added.
"NGOs need to gauge their strengths and weaknesses
through internal self-reflection. In the market now there is no tool that can be
used for this. This prompted us to make an attempt to fill the gap," he
said.
The package builds on views of internal as well as
external stakeholders of an NGO, provide ability to access and analyse data from
multiple locations, he said. The software helps analyse the perceptions of the
stakeholders.
CYSD has also produced a book entitled
"Organisational Behaviour" written by three South Asian experts that would act
as companion reference manual for the software's users.
Colin Ball, director of the Commonwealth
Foundation, London, would launch the book at a workshop.
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Mithi Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune. India.
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