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Mental Health NGOs are feeling the forces of change all around.
Many NGOs are considering how to position themselves for an uncertain future that is emerging from the dynamic interplay of complex factors:
- Continued requirements to deliver contracted services effectively within the funding available.
- Pressure from DHBs and others to reduce the number of NGOs which may mean mergers, reconfiguration of services, politics and powershifts.
- Opportunities for NGOs to establish and develop shared services models to reduce administration and other overhead while balancing the need to maintain their own unique identities at the point of delivery of services to service users.
- Increasing demands for more visible accountability and measurement in the delivery of services.
- Potential for convergence of social and health service providers.
- Relationships with other NGOs that must be paradoxically competitive and collaborative at the same time.
- Continued movement towards outsourcing of non-core services.
