The Journey towards Sustainability: NGO stories from the Philippines - Elmer Herradura Lighid

While they are clearly crucial to its survival, adequate financial resources alone do not make an NGO sustainable. There are other, equally important elements to the question which include organizational viability, the effectiveness of programmes, and, related to both of these, lasting impact. So runs the general argument of a new study from the Philippines published by the International Council on Management of Population Programmes (ICOMP). This looks at nine NGOs whose areas of interest and operation range from the rights of the urban poor across reproductive health to the welfare of the deaf.