Vaida Liutkutė, Mindaugas Štelemėkas, Aurelijus Veryga
Abstract
An organized civil society usually plays a key role in the prevention of non-communicable diseases. However, opportunities of Lithuanian non-governmental organizations to implemet prevention of non-communicable diseases and promote healthy lifestyles remains unknown: the assessment of the available human and financial resources have not been studied at all.
Method. Survey of Lithuanian non-governmental organizations capacity was conducted in 2012. The document analysis and descriptive statistics methods were used for data analysis. In the survey participated 37 non-governmental organizations. Chi-square test was used and the significance level p ≤0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results. The study found that 67.6 percent of non-governmental organizations do not have regularly paid staff. Only 32.4 percent of organisations do have contantly paid staff. Most common meaning – one paid employee. Ussually managers (32.4 percent)., and other professional staff members (45.9 percent) are paid. 81.1 percent of organizations indicated having from 1 to 200 volunteers. Number of volunteers over the past 3 years is stable. Only 10.8 percent of non-governmental organizations have stable funding for the non-communicable disease prevention and healthy lifestyle promotion and 37.8 percent of organizations are not funding these activities at all. Mostly (45.9 percent) funding is time limited and project based. The majority (70.3 percent) of respondents indicated that over the last 3 years their budget did not increase. Non-governmental organizations are able to absorb both the national (35.1 percent) and foreign countries (29.7 percent) funds.
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Keyword(s): non-governmental organizations; non-communicable diseases; health promotion; human and financial resources
DOI: 10.5200/sm-hs.2013.115
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