International Experience Integration of Openness and Transparency Level Evaluation of Socially Oriented Non-Governmental Organizations into Russian Practice

Published date: Jan 21 2021

Journal Title: KnE Social Sciences

Issue title: XXIII International Conference Culture, Personality, Society in the Conditions of Digitalization: Methodology and Experience of Empirical Research Conference

Pages: 330–341

DOI: 10.18502/kss.v5i2.8374

A.B. Novozhilovural.soc@mail.ruUral Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation

A.V. StarshinovaUral Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation

E.B. ArkhipovaUral Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation

This article deals with international experience integration of openness and transparency level evaluation of activities by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) into the Russian practice. The object of this study is socially oriented non-governmental organizations — both those that receive financial support from the state and those that do not. The subject of the study is the transparency and openness of the socially oriented non-governmental organizations of the Sverdlovsk region. The article proposes the following hypothesis: the government provides financial support to exceptionally transparent and open socially oriented non-governmental organizations; the most popular socially oriented non-governmental organizations are considered the most transparent, and the state financial support is provided to them. To evaluate the level of openness and transparency of non- governmental organizations the authors use quantitative methodology for websites monitoring of non-governmental organizations. The indicators proposed allow for the evaluation of the current level of openness of socially oriented non-governmental organizations. In addition, the article assesses available statistics to evaluate the popularity indicator of specific socially oriented non-governmental organizations.

Keywords: non-governmental organization, openness and transparency of NGOs, financial support, social partnership, government social policy

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