Abstract:
With greater influence and greater finances being poured into the development world through
NGOs, there is perpetuation and in fact acceleration in poverty and inequality in the world. With
this revelation, the works of NGOs have come under greater scrutiny. The lack of accountability
of NGOs is one issue that has been widely raised in academic literature against NGOs which is
hindering their responsibility of delivering development benefits. If these trends of criticism
continue then post-modern, post-development and anti-development theories would gain greater
support and would demand to disengage us from practicing any development at all and such a
move needs to be prevented. In such a scenario, organizational structure of NGOs has to be more
effective to contribute to the greater good of the society. One aspect of increasing effectiveness is
to inculcate a culture of thorough accountability among NGOs. There is a lack of an allencompassing
accountability framework available in the development academia and practice
which is acceptable to all the stakeholder of NGO operations. The purpose of this research is to
explore the issue of accountability of NGOs in Pakistan with an underlying aim to enhance the
effectiveness of development project by challenging the conventional methods which continue to
perpetuate poverty and inequality and coming up with a comprehensive accountability
framework to guide theory and the practice of development.
