시민운동지표(CAI)로 분석한 전라북도와 광주광역시의 NGO 역량 평가

Abstract

The objective of this article is to measure the local NGO's capacity ofGwangju Metropolitan City and Jeollabukdo from the perspective of CAI(CivicAction Index). CAI, which consists of 4 dimensions, 24 indicators and 30questions, is developed by the CSI(Civil Society Index) of the CIVICUS. TheCIVICUS is one of the world wide civil society NGOs which aims at enlargingcivil society and pursues to develop democracy. CAI is based on and referred bythe CSI of the CIVICUS. The result of survey data analysis for last 2 years does not show anymeaningful differences from the NGO's civic movement capacity between tworegions. Value dimension indicators of 4 dimensions were the same: Gwangjushows slightly stronger than Jeollabukdo on the Influence dimension indicators,and Jeollabukdo shows slightly stronger than Gwangju on the Organizations andEnvironment dimension indicators. Indicators which show more than 1 pointdifferences were the Global issues, Interest level of local government, andInterest level of private enterprises. Gwangju dominates the first andJeollabukdo dominates the rest, which show the city characteristics such asanonymity and high level of internationalization. Governance dimensionindicators show the lowest level of 4 points, which implies that NGOs socialposition would be subordinate in the social interaction situations of bothGwangju and Jeollabukdo. The distinction between NGOs in Gwangju and Jeollabukdo did notshow meaningful insights. Most of NGOs have not more than 500 members,but 10% of NGOs have more than 2,000 members. Almost all of NGOs useless than 50 million won for their one year budget, but some use over 1 billionwon. This result gives us the necessity of correction on preoccupation thatNGOs may have little members and may be vulnerable at budget management.