Global Social Sciences Review (GSSR) DOI: 10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).41 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).41 Citation: Ahmad, S., Hussain, N., & Ali, A. (2021). An Analysis of Non-Governmental Organizations: Health Nutrition Measures and Peoples Satisfaction. Global Social Sciences Review, VI(I), 408-419. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).41 An Analysis of Non-Governmental Organizations: Health Nutrition Measures and Peoples Satisfaction Shakeel Ahmad * Naqeeb Hussain Shah † Ashraf Ali ‡ This study was carried out to measure the Non-Governmental Organizations intervention in health nutrition and people's level of satisfaction. A sample size of 230 out of 450 populations was selected through a simple random sampling procedure. The study revealed the children and women (lactating) benefitted through nutrition food, provision of purification tablets for safe drinking water, provision of food baskets to people. Children were benefited through the provision of vitamin, and de-warming medication, treatment of pregnant and lactating women and children suffering from malnutrition were significantly associated with people's level of satisfaction. This study recommended that government, along with NGOs, must take measures for healthy nutrition irrespective of class, caste, and occupation, etc. • Vol. VI, No. I (Winter 2021) • Pages: 408‒ 419 • p- ISSN: 2520-0348 • e-ISSN: 2616-793X • ISSN-L: 2520-0348 Key Words: Children, Health, Malnutrition, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Nutrition, Women Introduction The government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are facing challenges to implement large-scale health-related projects effectively (Yamey, 2012; and Mirzazada et al., 2020). The stakeholders continue to develop and implement various projects in the health sector to overcome these issues and provide healthy nutrition to the community (Steenhoff et al., 2017). The basic aim of NGOs is to empower and improve the life standard of people. Some of the NGOs are working in the field of income generation of poor people. They give small grants to people and established small enterprises for the people to improve their living standards, i.e., that they become able to support their families, provide nutritious food and protect their offspring from any kind of violation. Also, NGOs launch advocacy campaigns through which problems of people are identified and present the issues in front of concerned government departments to adopt policy reforms for its * Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Sociology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan. Email: dr.shakeel@kust.edu.pk † Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work and Sociology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan. ‡ Associate Professor, Department of Law, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KP, Pakistan. solution especially related to health nutrition (Heintz, 2006; and Mehta et al., 2020). Non-Governmental Organizations are nonprofit organizations working in different sectors for the development of people. NGOs are providing relief services to suffering people, working for the protecting environment, and playing a role for poverty alleviation, and it works for safeguarding basic human rights (Cleary, 1997). In other words, NGO can also be defined as a group of people who are combined with working for the development of their community or society and it is not controlled by the government (Mazibuko, 2005). When the government had lacks resources or is unable to provide services to people, then NGOs take the responsibility to provide services. In western industrialized countries, NGOs work in close association with the government. Many NGOs are working in developing countries. Since the beginning, NGOs are working independently to provide services to the people, but in the last two Abstract