{"id":4501,"date":"2019-08-14T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"why-ngos-top-the-list-of-those-advancing-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/14\/why-ngos-top-the-list-of-those-advancing-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NGOs Top The List Of Those Advancing Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/users\/eric-whan\"><strong><em>Eric Whan<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sustainability\nleadership by NGOs is well recognized around the world as the type of\norganization that has contributed the most toward sustainable development since\nthe Rio Earth Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While this finding from our latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globescan.com\/2019-sustainability-leaders-report\/\">Sustainability Leaders Survey<\/a>\u00a0of experts is neither new nor surprising (NGOs have ranked as a leading institution since we began tracking this measure in 2009), NGOs\u2019 steady commitment to collaboration, engagement, and advocacy is celebrated despite them often being under-resourced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The\nprivate sector has seen a significant decline in ratings compared with 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile,\nthe United Nations has seen an 11-point increase in positive recognition among\nexperts and now ranks in second place, viewed positively by the largest\npercentage of experts in the history of this survey. In contrast, very few\nexperts rate the performance of national governments and institutional\ninvestors positively. The private sector has also seen a significant decline in\nratings compared with 2018. It is impossible not to notice the negative\ncorrelation between influence and recognition across these various types of\nactors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight hundred and seven\nqualified sustainable development experts in 78 countries responded to this\nyear\u2019s survey during April and May. They span the public, private, NGO,\ninstitutional and corporate service sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked specifically which NGOs they think are leaders in advancing sustainable development, our panel of experts cites the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Greenpeace as the two most widely recognized NGOs. WWF remains the stand-out leader with increased recognition compared to last year (36 percent, up to seven points), while Greenpeace continues to be the second-most recognized NGO (20 percent, up seven points compared to 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this increased\nappreciation of WWF and Greenpeace, along with the strong performance of other\nNGOs such as the World Resources Institute, Oxfam and The Nature Conservancy,\nwe are seeing a diverse set of NGOs that are both collaborative and activist\nleading the charge toward advancing sustainable development. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/why-ngos-top-list-those-advancing-sustainable-development\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Whan Sustainability leadership by NGOs is well recognized around the world as the type of organization that has contributed the most toward sustainable development since the Rio Earth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}