The United States, by comparison, has approximately 1.5 million NGOs. India is estimated to have had about 2 million NGOs in 2009 (approximately one per 600 Indians), many more than the number of the country's primary schools and health centers. NGOs are classified by (1) orientation-the type of activities an NGO undertakes, such as activities involving human rights, consumer protection, environmentalism, health, or development and (2) level of operation, which indicates the scale at which an organization works: local, regional, national, or international. In some countries, NGOs are known as nonprofit organizations, and political parties and trade unions are sometimes considered NGOs as well. The term NGO is used inconsistently, and is sometimes used synonymously with civil society organization (CSO), which is any association founded by citizens. According to the UN Department of Global Communications, an NGO is 'a not-for profit, voluntary citizen's group that is organized on a local, national or international level to address issues in support of the public good'. While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of governmental influence-although they may receive government funding. The term as it is used today was first introduced in Article 71 of the newly formed United Nations' Charter in 1945.

NGOs are distinguished from international and intergovernmental organizations ( IOs) in that the latter are more directly involved with sovereign states and their governments. However, NGOs can also be lobby groups for corporations, such as the World Economic Forum. Surveys indicate that NGOs do not have a high degree of public trust, which can make them a controversial proxy for the concerns of society and stakeholders. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in humanitarianism or the social sciences they can also include clubs and associations that provide services to their members and others. Ī non-governmental organization ( NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

Europe-Georgia Institute head George Melashvili addresses the audience at the launch of the 'Europe in a suitcase' project by two NGOs (the EGI and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation), which aims to increase cooperation between European politicians, journalists and representatives of the civic sector and academia with their counterparts in Georgia.

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