Round Table - "Non-Governmental Organizations, What, How and Why to measure?"

Round table “Non-governmental Organizations, What, How and Why to measure?” organized by The Fund for Open Society, Ulof Palme Centre and Proconcept will be held on Wednesday, 30th of November 2005, in the premises of the Fund for Open Society, Serbia.

The main reason for discussion is the project: “Analysis of potentials and capacities of NGO’s in development of civil society in Serbia (INGOC)”, which main goal is to establish a mechanism of evaluation and self-assessment of NGO’s and assist their future development and professional performance.

The main subject of the round table is presentation of the project activities we have undertaken so far.

Apart from this specific matter, the NGO representatives will have the opportunity to discuss the need of establishing standards in NGO performance and share their experience on various capacity assessment tools they have encountered in their work until now.

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Within the INGOC project, the most interesting and the most challenging part is on track. The part is focused on interviewing NGO’s and collecting data that should be made use of to all of us in future work.

The data collected will serve to build the Index of Capacity (INGOC) of individual organizations. Furthermore, the designing of INGOC will function as an effective instrument for analyzing the state of the NGO sector in Serbia. As such, the INGOC will point out (recommend) the further development directions, whereas passing up becoming any kind of ranking list of the Serbian NGO’s.

So far, the members of the ProConcept team have conducted interviews with 26 NGOs throughout Serbia.