Third world NGOs: a missing piece to the population puzzle
Fisher, J.
Environment 36: 11
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0013-9157 DOI: 10.1080/00139157.1994.9929179Document Number: 358480
An article adapted from The Road from Rio: Sustainable Development and the Nongovernmental Movement in the Third World. Indigenous nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) could contribute greatly to continuing the decline in fertility in the Third World, partly because of the extent of their reach. During the past 20 years, NGOs have quickly spread and now reach approximately half a billion of the estimated 4.2 billion people in the Third World. The article discusses the problem of unchecked population growth in the Third World; advantages that NGOs have over governments and international donors in delivering preventive health care, including family planning; ways in which NGOs influence government policy; and how NGOs can be strengthened. .