Abstract: Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for a long time have relied on the generosity of donors to support their project activities through grants and donations. However, organizations have realized that such funding sources are often insufficient to meet needs and rising costs for project implementation. Women Local Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) try to fill sustainable development gaps while struggling with insufficient resources. Survey research approach was adopted to examine the local women NGOs challenges using purposive and simple random sampling of two women local NGOs in Hargeisa. Issues such as NGOs governance and management, staff composition and incapacity, sources of funding and donor funding fatigue, strings attached to funding, relationship between local NGOs capacities and their operations as well as the changing donor funding requirements have been discussed in this regard. The main argument of this paper is that NGOs resource mobilization requires a lot of time and skills to seek resources from different sources and the pressure often using strategies that compromise the values they are fighting for through their work.
Keywords: women, development, NGOs, economic transformation, Hargeisa and Somaliland.
Title: Challenges of local women development NGOs in contributing to economic transformation of Hargeisa, Somaliland
Author: Phillemon Landy Tubei
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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