Community Based Organization Governance in Nepal

Abstract

Globally diversity of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) applications raises the curiosity to analyze CSOs’ application in Nepal due to uncoerced collective action around shared interest purposes and values. The study focuses on the analysis of the structure, environment, values and impacts of CSOs to illustrate CSO governance. Based on the four types of Nepalese CSOs- Community Forest Users Groups (CFUGs), Cooperatives, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Not-profit Making Organizations and Community Organizations due to the availability of their data. The findings reveal that CSOs have wide coverage and networking throughout the country having voluntary in nature and autonomous in working style. However, their performance is conditioned by the availability of donors’ funds, and elite-captured, begging tools in the name of democratic-value addition except not profit-making CSOs due to individualization of the social members.