The 1999 NGO Sustainability Index
For Central and Eastern Europe
and Eurasia
With the publication of the 1999
NGO Sustainability Index, the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia has taken another
step forward in the continued development and improvement of this important
instrument that gauges the strength and viability of the region's NGO sectors.
Based on feedback from USAID Missions and implementing partners, and formulated
with the assistance of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Assistance
(ACVFA), changes and improvements in this edition of the Index have been
made to make scoring both more rigorous and more comprehensive. Readers will
note two major changes:
- Two new dimensions of NGO sustainability--
service provision and sectoral infrastructure -- which in prior years were
included as part of organizational capacity.
- A refined, more objective scoring
process.
While these changes make this year's
scores harder to compare to those of prior years, we believe that the increased
objectivity of the scoring and the additional information that the new dimensions
provide will more than make up for the difficulty.
The 1999 Index also provides additional
graphs and charts in a new Statistical Annex, that will enable the reader
to compare scores in each dimension, both across the regions and over time.
We hope the insights these graphs provide will prove valuable to donors and
implementers alike.
Now that the Index is in its third
edition, the data are beginning to provide a picture of progress, constraints,
and sectoral self-perceptions within each sector and across the region. We
can therefore make a number of general observations and identify a few trends.
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