Governmental Organisations International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) have been growing both in number and influence around the world. INGOs range widely in scope, size, membership and home location. Some examples of INGOs are Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF; also known as Doctors Without Borders). INGOs have been increasingly engaged in policy making and policy processes.
Domestically INGOs have access to policy makers and work to influence policy through lobbying efforts and information campaigns. At the international scenario, INGOs often work with intergovernmental Organisations and donor agencies and can have tremendous sway in certain policy domains. Recently the work of INGOs have been linked with their efforts to changes in trade and investment patterns and decisions in terms of humanitarian intervention, economic sanctions and aid allocation. Until the adoption of the UN Charter in , the term non-governmental Organisation did not exist.
In the year , a group of Organisations came together to form the Union of International Organisations. In a group of Organisations that regularly attended the League meetings and formed the Federation of Private and Semi-Official International Organisations established in Geneva. When the UN Charter was finalized, the San Francisco Conference agreed to make provision for both intergovernmental Organisations and private Organisations to have formal relations with the ECOSOC. In terms of according status for both types of Organisations, members were unwilling to give same status to the two types of international Organisations.
Under Article , a new term Specialized Agencies was introduced to define inter-governmental Organisations. Under Article , a new second term was introduced – non-governmental Organisations. The UN is an organisation of governments of the world while the non- governmental Organisation represents the people of all nations of the world.