Saturday, 25 October 2014
Nature of FCRA-NGOs & their International Donors
This will be a short Post. As I have implored many times before, while NGOs receiving foreign funds via FCRA may appear benign, an understanding of their agenda can be gained only by studying their foreign donors. There is no way to figure out which foreign agency funds which Indian NGOs except through a reverse analyses of the FC6 returns, the efficacy of which was illustrated in one of our earlier Posts.
What are the key characteristics of a FCRA-NGO? We can obtain an understanding by analysing their Names. One way to do this is through a Word Cloud. The height of a word in a word-cloud is proportional to the number of times it appears.
The following analyses use the FC6 returns filed by the FCRA-NGOs for the year 2011-2012.
Analysis of the names of 21,595 FCRA-NGOs spread across 24 States yields the following picture:
What are the key characteristics of a FCRA-NGO? We can obtain an understanding by analysing their Names. One way to do this is through a Word Cloud. The height of a word in a word-cloud is proportional to the number of times it appears.
The following analyses use the FC6 returns filed by the FCRA-NGOs for the year 2011-2012.
Analysis of the names of 21,595 FCRA-NGOs spread across 24 States yields the following picture:
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| Word Cloud of names of Indian NGOs receiving funds via FCRA. Click to enlarge. http://sighbaboo.blogspot.in/2014/10/nature-of-fcra-ngos-their-international.html?m=1 |