A: A non-governmental organization is a group that, as the name implies, operates independently of governmental control. The usual purpose of an NGO is to promote a policy or provide services.

Non-Governmental Organizations Committee, Concluding Session, Recommends 160 Groups for Consultative Status, Defers 200 ...

UNHCR maintains strategic partnerships with more than 900 partners including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governmental institutions and United Nations agencies. We entrust about 40 per cent ...

While veteran-recruiting non-governmental organizations represented a minority at the workshop compared to conventional humanitarian organizations and U.N. agencies, balanced representation was ...

Indeed, long before the earthquake, the U.N. and the so-called non-government organizations, the NGOs, were already providing what government normally provides, which is precisely the problem.