The Changing Face of Non-Traditional NGO Governance: The Case of the Chinmaya Rural Primary Health Care and Training Centre (CRTC), India

dc.contributor.authorDiniz, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-04T23:20:51Z
dc.date.available2012-10-04T23:20:51Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractNonprofit literature suggests that non-governmental organizations (NGOs), even those that intentionally want to maintain a collectivist structure, tend to adopt bureaucratic governance features when subject to growth and accountability from funders (Handy, Kassam and Ranade, 2000). The 'The Chinmaya Rural Primary Health Care and Training Centre' (CRTC), in India, is an exception as it chooses to maintain its collectivist structure despite its rapid growth, and its reliance on international funding. As a collectivist structure, it has developed a space that allows for its staff and constituents to take a more active role in its governance, departing from traditional governance that relies on trustees or boards (Smillie and Hailey, 2001). Garreth Morgan's principles of holographic design (1986) is used to explain CRTC's overall organizational structure that allows for inclusive governance mechanisms. By critically examining governance at CRTC for generalizations that can apply to other rural-development NGOs, this paper argues that it is possible for rural-based NGOs to develop non-traditional forms of governance by deliberately maintaining a collectivist structure. This widens the traditional governance equation to include staff and constituents with direct implications on the traditional functions of the board. The paper concludes with the 'Dynamic Holographic Collectivist Governance Model.' The model is neither comprehensive nor inflexible and is designed for generic adaptability by practitioners to suit their particular environmental needs.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFES Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Seriesen_US
dc.identifier.issn1702-3548
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/18077
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Environmental Studies, York Universityen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 10;No. 1
dc.rights.publisherhttp://www.yorku.ca/fes/research/students/outstanding/index.htmen_US
dc.titleThe Changing Face of Non-Traditional NGO Governance: The Case of the Chinmaya Rural Primary Health Care and Training Centre (CRTC), Indiaen_US
dc.typeResearch Paperen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
lisa-diniz.pdf
Size:
103.13 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.83 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: