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A Study on the Perception Survey for Role of Environmental NGOs in Kyonggi-Do-Comparison of Questionnaire to Public Officials and Residents as a Key Subject - (경기도 민간환경단체의 역할에 대한 의식조사 - 공무원과 도민의 설문조사 비교를 중심으로 -)

  • Sung, Hyun-Chan
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.37-49
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    • 2002
  • The opinionnaire was given to two groups; residents and public officials working at environmental administrative section. Based on the result of questionnaire, perceptional differences between these groups toward environmental NGOs were comparatively anaIyzed. The results were classified into following four items; Firstly, numbers of residents who recognize the existences of environmental NGOs in Kyonggi-Do were lower than those who didn't. Secondly, in both groups, more than 80% of respondents acknowledged that residents should be involved in decisions and developments of environmental projects. Thirdly, respondents belonging to both groups overwhelmingly selected the item "being improved" as the answer for the question asking whether NGOs' environmental activities contribute to improve of environmental conditions. This indicated that public officials also acknowledged the positive role of NGOs in environmental issues. Lastly, the answer of "intensive upbringing is necessary" was ranked as the first place for the question asking "necessity of raising environmental NGOs". However, it was hard to tell which opinion was superior in the matter of financial support necessity for NGOs judging from the answers by respondents of public officials.

An Analysis of Upbringing Program for Informal Environmental Educator in Environmental NGOs (환경 NGO의 사회환경교육자 양성 프로그램 분석)

  • Koh, Woon-Mee;Seo, Woo-Seok
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.187-195
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    • 2005
  • The objectives of this study were to analyze present status and to suggest for the future upbringing programs for informal environment educator of Environmental NGOs in Korea. Based on the findings from reviewing environmental educators’ certification systems in Environmental NGOs, the following suggestions should be considered for improving the certification systems. 1) Government and environmental NGOs should adopt a certification system by implementing qualifying examination for employing specification of informal environmental educator. 2) Applicants to obtain a certification of informal environmental educator in environmental NGOs should be qualified through standard processes including taking required curriculum and programs. They must be evaluated informal environmental educator’ ability accurately through their portfolio, teaching ability, professional responsibilities and so on. 3) Standardized curriculum and programs should be adopted by government for the initial preparation of environmental educators reflecting the guidelines from the KOSEE (The Korean Society for Environmental Education) and NAAEE (North American Association for Environmental Education) in the future.

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A Study on the Improvement Plan of Record Management of Non-Governmental Organizations to Improve Accountability : Based on a Survey of NGOs in Busan (설명책임성 향상을 위한 시민단체 기록관리 개선 방안 연구 부산지역단체 실태조사를 중심으로)

  • Sea, Jeong
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.73
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    • pp.81-123
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    • 2022
  • NGOs(Non-Governmental Organizations) are organization based on the 'voluntary participation' of citizens. Citizens' participation and support are essential for the existence and sustainable growth of the organization. The records of NGOs are produced, received, collected, and left behind in the course of their activities. Systematically managed records are used as information for business performance to increase operational efficiency. In addition, it plays a role in proving the legitimacy of the group and its activities to internal and external stakeholders of the NGO, such as whether the group's activities were performed legally and whether the group is actually working to realize the goal it stands for. Therefore record management of NGOs is required to improve accountability. In other words, NGOs can be gain the trust of civil society based on accountability through records and secure internal and external resources necessary for the existence of the group. In this study, after confirming the general record management status of NGOs in Busan, improvement measures were examined in terms of record management in order to increase the accountability of NGOs.

A Study on the Consulting Methodology for Building Records Management Scheme for NGOs (NGO 기록관리 컨설팅 방법 연구)

  • Yim, Jin-Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.26
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    • pp.3-32
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    • 2010
  • NGO called the third sector is one of the major party of the modern society. Therefore documentation of the various NGOs' activities is the way of recording our society fully. This paper identifies the value of NGOs' records, verifies the needs for NGOs' records management, examines two case of consulting projects on NGOs in Korea which has been conducted by the author and graduate students, and offers a consulting methodology of building records management scheme for the small scale NGOs. The cases are related to small-scale NGOs operated by under 10 full-time activists. One case is related to the NGO based on the locality and the other case is related to the NGO based on the special subject matter. The methodology contains four stages such as defining direction stage, AS-IS analysis stage, TO-BE modelling stage and transition & closing stage. Standard records management guideline for NGOs should be developed using this methodology in the future.

The Performance Analysis of Korean NGOs' Tree Plantation Projects in Mongolia

  • Kang, Min-Kyung;Park, Dong-Kyun;Chun, Young-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.99 no.5
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    • pp.655-662
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    • 2010
  • Desertification has been expanding with a remarkable speed across the Northeast Asia. Desertification in Northeast Asia significantly influences Korea's economy and environmental health conditions in recent years. For these reasons, a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Korea have carried out the reforestation projects to combat desertification in China and Mongolia. Several tree plantation projects were implemented in Mongolia and China. The objective of this study was to analyze and evaluate the performance of tree plantation aid projects carried out by Korean NGOs in Mongolia. The performance of tree plantation projects was examined through effectiveness, efficiency, equity and responsiveness of those projects. The performance was analyzed with the survival rate of planted trees and planting cost, the recognitions of Mongolian people. The analysis of the performance showed that the tree plantation cooperation projects carried out by Korean NGOs in Mongolia had comparatively high performance from a larger point of view. Especially, effectiveness and responsiveness of their projects were highly marked in spite of all the difficulties of carrying out the tree plantation. Such a high effectiveness represented the relatively higher survival rates of trees and Mongolian's positive recognition of plantation projects. Furthermore, the responsiveness also turned out to be high with a great satisfaction of the Mongolian people for plantation projects conducted by the Korean NGOs. Survey results indicated that the efficiency and equity of the projects would be increased by promoting the cooperation projects for tree planting throughout Mongolia with reinforcing infrastructures. By comparison between Korean NGOs and Mongolian Government plantation projects, confirmed the importance of sustained financial support and maintenance activities in the plantation sites.

A Study on the Trend of NGOs' Rally and Struggle during Multi-Summit Meeting (ASEM정상회의시 NGO집회 및 시위 성향性向에 따른 대응방안)

  • Yang, Jae-Yul
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.4
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    • pp.169-187
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    • 2001
  • NGOs occupy so high international position that it is said the age of NGOs or Renaissance of NGOs has came. Recently, they continuously succeeded in hindering and blocking large-scale international events through their violent struggles. This paper studied the concept of NGO, examples of NGO struggles during recent international events and stated anticipated struggles during ASEM III and their trend. Thereafter, with future prospect of NGO activities, some measures for successful 2002 World Cup and 2005 APEC were provided in this paper. The contents of this paper is as follows ; Chapter I : Introduction Chapter II : The concept of NGO and aspects of their struggles during recent international events Chapter III : Struggles during the 3rd ASEM, Seoul and their trend Chapter IV : Future prospect of NGO activities Chapter V : Conclusion

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Global Civil Society from Hyperlink Perspective: Exploring the Website Networks of International NGOs

  • Meier, Harald
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.64-77
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    • 2016
  • This case study takes a look at the hyperlink networks extracted from the websites of 367 international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with datasets from 2010, 2012 and 2014. The first level of evaluation focuses on connections between the NGOs, identifying important nodes, groups and their relations. The second level takes into account the broad range of networked websites from the World Wide Web delivering insights into general networking patterns. The third level explores the underlying spatial configurations of the network which offers a great variety of geographic insights on information flows between and within continents, countries and cities. The most interesting findings of this study are a low level of interconnectedness between the NGOs and at the same time a strong spatial concentration of all embedded network actors.

Current status and prospects of oral health services exchange from South and North Korea through nongovernmental organizations (비정부기구를 통한 남북한 구강보건의료 교류의 현황과 전망)

  • Han, Dong-Hun;Shin, Teo-Jeon;Myoung, Hoon;Lee, Seung-pyo;Kim, Chong-Chul
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.53 no.10
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    • pp.705-711
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    • 2015
  • South Korea's oral health care non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played a crucial role in South-North relations, although a formal intergovernmental relationship is difficult to establish and also easily breaks down. Humanitarian assistance by NGOs in the oral health care sector is an area that receives wide support from South Korean society for its urgency and for its appeal to humanity. This humanitarian assistance started in the late 1990's and continued to grow until the late 2000's. This assistance continued throughout the tension between the two administrations that resulted in a radical decrease in overall assistance from South Korea to North Korea. However, concerns remain about the transparency and efficiency of NGO activities. In this article, the NGOs and their major activities are delineated, and South Korean legislation is examined. A current act, the Law on the Development of South and North Korean Relations serves as a basis for governmental regulation and support of NGO's. Humanitarian assistance in the oral healthcare area is directly related to the oral health of the North Korean people, and it should not be influenced by political changes. Long-term planning and close discussions between NGOs, their North Korean counterparts, and the South Korean government are needed. NGOs need to overcome their shortcomings such as a lack of expertise and shortage of financial support. For this, NGOs must improve their administration transparency and professionalism.

What is Pivot? Implementation Strategies in NGOs under CBR (중심축은 무엇인가? 지역사회중심재활(CBR)을 중심으로 한 NGO 활동전략)

  • Shin, Sook Kyung
    • 재활복지
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.23-41
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    • 2018
  • Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) for rehabilitation of people with disabilities in India have been carrying out of an important strategy in the long-term protection of their rights. However, it is embarrassing to aware that many number of NGOs remain starved for resources under very unsatisfactory conditions. CBR programs could fill a vacuum and satisfies urgent needs and strategies of NGOs' activities. The purposes of this article are to present rehabilitation strategies toward social change and fulfillment of human rights by NGOs, have played a major role in disability and disability services in India, and to challenge CBR program as awareness raising and community developing. This would be accomplished by reviewing several articles conducted regarding ways that NGOs can become more effective source in long-term rehabilitation service with CBR program in India. Some suggestions are revealed.

A Linkage between NGOs and Government in Resettlement Assistance for Defecting North Korean Residents (NGO와 정부의 연결관계의 모색: 탈북자 정착지원의 경우)

  • Lee, Ki-Young
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.37
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    • pp.327-355
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    • 1999
  • This study analyzes the relationship between NGOs and government assisting defecting North Korean residents and seeks a desirable model of a linkage between the two sectors. The factors used in this study for an analysis of the relationship between NGOs and government are frequency and direction of interaction between NGOs and government, government's acceptance or resistance of institutional pluralism. the degree of formality of the relationship, and the relative power balance in the relationship. Also, Coston's typology(l998) of NGO-government relationships is applied for the analysis. Results of the analysis indicates that, in resettlement assistance for defecting North Korean residents, Korean NGOs and government have a cooperative relationship at minimal level, which means that there is a low linkage, informal relationship, and asymmetrical power-relationship between the two sectors. Also, government's acceptance of institutional pluralism seems to be superficial and a tendency of one-way direction of interaction is identified. Based on the findings, this study suggests a more collaborative relationship or partnership between NGOs and the government to arrange more effective assistance programs and activities. Discussion of some controversial issues related to achieving the collaboration and suggestion of a possible model of linking government to the NGOs are followed in conclusion.

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