Research Study on the Level of Sustainability of NGOs in Brazil working on HIV/AIDS
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This study was carried out by John Snow do Brasil and PROMUNDO and received funding from USAID, FHI, and the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
This study has the objective to present the main institutional characteristics of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Brazil, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs), associations, cooperatives, among other similar organisations developing HIV/AIDS related activities and projects in Brazil. The work of these organisations has contributed to the control of the epidemic among specific intended populations around the country in recent years. This is the main reason why all partners participating in this initiative decided to assess their strategic approaches, the main characteristics of their staff, strategies used for leveraging resources and their main community-based activities.
These institutional aspects were correlated into different sustainability categories presented by this study as: organisational capital, financial capital, technical/human resources capital, and social capital. The correlation of all these types of capital facilitates the process to identifying the level of institutional sustainability of all entities included in this research; in other words, their capacity to disseminate and replicate efficiently their activities.
Based on quantitative and qualitative research methods, these four categories are analysed. These findings contribute for better understanding of the work developed by the CSOs/AIDS in Brazil. Finally, a ranking based on the institutional sustainability index found for all CSOs included in this resesarch is presented. The ranking includes observations and comments related to the performance of organisations with low and high sustainability levels.
Thus, this report was subdivided into four parts:
This study has the objective to present the main institutional characteristics of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Brazil, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs), associations, cooperatives, among other similar organisations developing HIV/AIDS related activities and projects in Brazil. The work of these organisations has contributed to the control of the epidemic among specific intended populations around the country in recent years. This is the main reason why all partners participating in this initiative decided to assess their strategic approaches, the main characteristics of their staff, strategies used for leveraging resources and their main community-based activities.
These institutional aspects were correlated into different sustainability categories presented by this study as: organisational capital, financial capital, technical/human resources capital, and social capital. The correlation of all these types of capital facilitates the process to identifying the level of institutional sustainability of all entities included in this research; in other words, their capacity to disseminate and replicate efficiently their activities.
Based on quantitative and qualitative research methods, these four categories are analysed. These findings contribute for better understanding of the work developed by the CSOs/AIDS in Brazil. Finally, a ranking based on the institutional sustainability index found for all CSOs included in this resesarch is presented. The ranking includes observations and comments related to the performance of organisations with low and high sustainability levels.
Thus, this report was subdivided into four parts:
- Introduction - It includes an overview of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Brazil and around the world, the main policies and programmatic approaches toward prevention and assistance, the main theoretical aspects for developing the study, and a brief description of the methodology used.
- Main Characteristics of all CSOs included in this research - It addresses questions such as: Who are they? How they leverage resources for their programmes and activities? What are their main target populations?
- CSO' Institutional Sustainability Index Analysis - It presents the sustainability indexes (from 0,000 to 1,000) for all organisations included in this research and a narrative of the main findings from the qualitative research conducted during the implementation of the project.
- Conclusions and Recommendations - In this final part of the report, a list of the main conclusions related to the data presented and final (follow-on) recommendations are included.
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