Career in NGO's
Career in Development Sector
Consulting has always seen as a lucrative career option for development professionals. Of course this fascinating option has its ups in terms of exposure, varied expressions in assignments and most importantly out of Institutional bounds i.e. freedom of notions. Along with these ups, the profile has got its own challenges.
In 2013, I started my Masters in Development Studies and after some courses and a better understanding of development I decided to do an internship in this area. I already had a stable job I enjoyed at a research agency in Sydney, but I wanted to experience a totally new culture and the different working dynamics at a not-for-profit. I always dreamt of working for the United Nations and an internship was my best shot at making this dream come true.
Everyday hundreds and thousands of contents are getting uploaded on internet. Competing with them in terms of search engine ranking & usefulness is quite challenging. Adapting to the changing algorithm (rules of promotion) and practices change quite frequently. But there are many fundamentals which remain constant and never changes.
While people thought, “who has a care in the world for a social cause on the internet?”several organizations proved this wrong by running the most successful campaigns. It is true that for something to go viral, creativity, intellect, and little bit of luck is vital. However, sometimes the exploded content is merely a great idea gone popular. This is definitely something non profits and other organizations seeking social change can do while crafting their content for online users.
The term “Social Change” is normally used to refer some kind of major alternations, changes or improvements over a course of time in social behavior or cultural patterns, norms and values
Development in 2015 is so many intersections of so many facets of the human condition that you cannot gain a full understanding of how it occurs unless you tackle that understanding in an interdisciplinary manner
The need of M & E in development sector: Monitoring and Evaluation is key to successful programming in the development programming context.
Spending time in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Burma, Indonesia, Lebanon, Sudan and many other places is much more than just the worst nightmare for most of the people because of wars, bloodshed and natural disasters.
Monitoring and evaluation, also known as the short form “M&E” is an emerging field in international development.
Social Media Platforms have been one of the biggest gifts of the Information Age. It is literally shrinking the world as we know, covering distances and enabling real time communication between people living in different Time Zones.
