NGOs

1. Two important achievements in Malawi by NGOs are AIDs education and environmental education. AIDs has wiped out an enormous amount of people in Malawi and through education, the people are less likely to spread the disease further. Environmental and farming education is important because of the degradation in most parts of Malawi. They can be taught how to take care of their land to keep it more fertile so they can produce more food to survive.

2. NGOs are most likely to disband or fail when there is a lack of outside financial support or when the NGO has trouble with their existing mission statement. Other organizations may find a way to support the same mission statement more effectively causing funds to decrease. With these problems, NGO's could consider organized abandonment.

3. It is harder to manage cash flow in a non-profit because they it is harder for them to determine to expected cash flow from year to year. Businesses can compare profits of other businesses to help predict their cash flow for the next year. Non-profits have to rely on fundraising to get from year to year.

Sustainability

A sustainable process is one that can sustain itself. It is maintained using a long-term well-being concept so that when concerning resources, it is sustainable when humans take without depleting or permanently damaging a resource. Many definitions of sustainability include meeting the future's needs in addition to the present. If a process is sustainable, it does not deplete or damage a resource. When deciding what is sustainable, we must figure out what is fair between the present generations (intragenerational) and the future generations (intergenerational). Equity is encompassed by sustainability between the present and future generations when we decide to begin a sustainable process. By sustaining what we are using now, we ensure that there will be enough for the future generations to use as well.

Sustainability and sustainable development differ in the fact that sustainable development encompasses development, while sustainability is more closely tied to resources and the environment. Some principles of sustainable development include human development, food systems, energy systems, water systems, systems of social and environmental justice and change, etc. The development seems to be in the area of developing new systems that would be better for both humans and the environment. Sustainability alone seems to be the whole idea that sustainable development is based upon. Through sustainability, sustainable development can work to make the changes that it desires.