jamilah mohammad al-khaldi The Governance of the non-profit sector and its Role in Social Development

A Field study on NGOs in Riyadh and Dammam Cities

Abstract

     The study aims to identify the governance of NGOs, for the sector to play its role in social development, where it relied on the method of study how to use the method of studying the case, on several cases, amounting to sixteen cases made up of local leaders working in the NGOs, Riyadh, and Dammam, by using the interview tool (half-oriented). The study also relied on the content analysis tool to collect more from the data.

     The study found that NGO governance is an effective tool towards increasing the effectiveness of the sector's role in social development, but on the other hand, it has found the need for the NGO governance system to achieve a participatory approach with NGOs, and the need for NGOs to strengthen the awareness and cultural aspect of the importance of governance and its mechanisms as organizational values geared to organizational behavior, rather than as requirements to be met.

     The role of cognitive reflection because of the development process witnessed in the eastern region in the development within the non-profit sector, the practice of NGOs in Dammam city of governance standards preceded the adoption of the system of governance of NGOs.

Keywords: Governance, NGOs, social development.