56494 - Economics and Management of NGOs

Academic Year 2007/2008

  • Docente: Pierpaolo Bravin
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: SECS-P/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Co-operative Companies and Non-profit Organisations (cod. 0030)

Course contents

1. The NGOs

Historical and political evolution

Definition, motivations, characteristics and activity of the Italian and European ONGs
NGOs and the other actors of international development cooperation
NGOs and the international organisms
NGOs in humanitarian emergencies

2. Project cycle management (PCM)
Instruments of international development cooperation
Methods of programming and management of international development cooperation
The project approach: PCM and logical Framework

practice

3. The international voluntary service

The role of the international voluntary service and the relationship with the communities of the South of the world
The Italian and European legislation on the international voluntary service
Presentation and analysis of experiences on the field

4. NGOs fund raising

Criteria and modality of fund raising
Main analyses NGO's financial sources
Strategies and techniques of fund raising
Analysis on NGOs budgets

case study

5. Deepenings
The initiative of the agencies and the local communities; partnership and subsidiarity

Decentralised cooperation
Projects/work programmes to raise public awareness of development issues

Case study

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