Friday: Step 5: research & record relevant data

Today you will work in class on finding data to help answer your research question.  

To help in evaluating the effectiveness of your selected NGO, consider searching for the following evidence:

• Annual reports published by the NGO
• Published reviews of the NGO's work written by a third party (by someone other than the NGO)
• Articles published by a third party (not written by the NGO)

Look for evidence that the NGO uses some standard of measure to evaluate their own effectiveness.

• Do they evaluate their own effectiveness each year? Do they hire an outside company or organization to evaluate their own effectiveness--how does the organization define their own "success"?  
  
• How will they know if they are "successful" in meeting their mission?
  
• Is this measured by quantitative data or goals (i.e., assists a certain number of people, reduces a specified number of deaths, plants a specific number of trees, raises a certain amount of money, etc.) 

Here are helpful links for today's tasks:

• ​Global Goals Investigation presentation (Google Slide)
• Global Issues and the Role of NGOs (GlobalIssues.org website -- look at the subsections on this related to NGOs)
  
• ​UN NGO Outreach Publications (listed by topic)
• The Global Goals (website)
• UN Sustainable Development (U.N. website)