a. Orientation

Charitable Orientation:
Activites directed towards meeting the needs of the poor such as distribution of food, medicine; housing or transport provision. Normally such NGOs are required most post disaster (natural or man made)

Service Orientation
Inludes all such activites directed towards provision of health, family pplanning or education services. (eg MEdicins Sans Frontiers and CAFOD)

Participatory Orientation
Normally community develpoment projects where the local people themselves are involved by contributing cash, tools, land, materials, labour etc. Cooperatives are a classic example of such an NGO. (eg The AMUL Model)

Empowering Orientation
This types of NGO aims to provide aid to people with a full understanding of the social, political and economic factors affecting their lives.(EQUATIONS & Mahiti)

b. Level of Operations

Community-based Organizations
Arise out of people's initiatives. These include sanything froma a sports clubs to educational organizations. Most of them are national or international NGOs, agencies, and other form of help.

Citywide Organizations
Many of such organisation exist to help the poor ot address specific issues related to them. Such organisation includes the Rotary or lion's Club, chambers of commerce andindustry, coalitions of business, ethnic or educational groups and associations of community organizations.

National NGOs
Includes organizations such as the Red Cross, YMCAs/ YWCAs, professional organizations etc.

International NGOs
Include agencies such as OXFAM, CARE, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. Their activities range from funding local NGOs to implementing their own projects.

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