RT Journal Article
T1 The effectiveness of rural versus urban nonprofit organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A1 Urquía Grande, Elena
A1 Rautiainen, Antti
A1 Pérez Estébanez, Raquel
AB The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country with high natural resources, but it has suffered from decades of civil wars and social turmoil, being heavily aid-dependent. In the DRC, several Nonprofit Organisations (NPOs) are major players in fighting poverty and enhancing welfare. This research aims to analyse the effectiveness of small NPOs in improving poor peoples’ lives through health, education, and economic activities. Two NPOs working in the DRC, one in a rural and the other in an urban area, are compared by researching the aid sites and surveying 201 households (aid beneficiaries). Our case observations and the survey results facilitate analysing the mission accomplishment, effectiveness, and accountability of the NPOs although we admit that the DRC conditions make exact measurements difficult. Multivariate analyses are used to study the differences in aid impacts. There are significant differences in the beneficiaries’ perception of the NPO effectiveness in improving health while no significant differences in education impact were found. This is probably because both case NPOs have succeeded in getting a large proportion of the children of their area registered in the education centres created by the NPOs. Differences were observedin the accountability and reporting style of the NPOs.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1360-2241
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18858
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18858
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 may 2024