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Sometimes best practices are helpful. Other times they are a hindrance. When you need best practice where should you look?
Human Relations – Every organization of more than one person must deal with HR. It makes sense to emulate the employer in your area with the best HR reputation (for-profit, nonprofit, or government agency).
Fundraising – Since almost every nonprofit in your area is engaged in fundraising, it makes sense to emulate the practices of the nonprofit in your area with the best specific process you need. Who has the best grant writing success? Who has the best donor cultivation process? Who has the most successful events? Who has the most sustainable funding stream? Of course, what you say and how you say it should be unique to your mission.
Programming – Who are the similar organizations in your community and who among those has the most successful programming? It is not program content that matters (best practices is not duplicating someone’s program), what matters is how do they design, test, manage, and measure their programming. If you have a youth program, you might think about the schools, churches, youth organizations, or anyone else who has one or more programs for youth regardless of the age group they serve.
The information you are looking for will help you perfect your process rather than build a competitive process. Most organizations are happy to share what they know as long as they can trust that you have no intention of using the information to compete with them. As an example, Little League is unlikely to willingly help you create a competitive baseball league but they would probably be happy to help you create a better run sports program.
A better run sports program increases the efficiency of the organization and the enjoyment of the participants (athletes, fans, officials, and organizers). However, a better run sports program is unlikely to have much effect on the outcomes (sportsmanship, fitness, etc.).
Naturally, after you find the best practice that you need, you must customize it to fit you culture, mission, and clients.
Best practices only make services more efficient. How well you fulfill the promises of your mission determines the effectiveness of your services. In most cases, it is better to tolerate some inefficiency if there is an opportunity to increase effectiveness. Increased efficiency prevents sustainability from declining while increase effectiveness increases sustainability.
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Unlimited Sportbooks Rebate Bonus!Ten years since the launch of violent attacks against innocent citizens, it is pertinent to find out exactly what Boko Haram want. It is not enough to continue to wage a war against Boko Haram who have killed over 30,000 innocent citizens and displaced over two million people from July 2009 to July 2019 but it is important to analyse the activities of this Islamic sect. We have been launching counter-terrorism attacks against Boko Haram with no end in sight and huge resources expended. Therefore, there is a need for more introspection. The meaning of Boko Haram already says something about this group. There is religious violence and they want government to put an end to it. There is pervasive corruption in government at all levels and they are appalled by this. There is economic inequality and they do not want the disparity to continue. There is poor governance and they want to provide an alternative. We have abusive security forces and they won’t have none of that. There is no denying these facts. Countries that are confronted with this kind of challenge address the root causes rather than resort to the use of force. They use monies that would have been expended on fighting war to address the underlying issues driving insurgency. We would have won the fight against Boko Haram insurgency a long time ago if military strategy alone was the most effective response to Boko Haram insurgency. There are other approaches we need to adopt in fighting the war against terrorism. Approaches that will not only stop the need for radicalization of teeming youths but also make them realize that their plight is being addressed by governments.
Boko Haram wants good governance and equal opportunity. They offer an alternative to the current style of governance in Nigeria. Many Muslims do not agree with Boko Haram. They believe Boko Haram is fighting a needless war. To them, Boko Haram is just using poor governance and economic inequality as a smokescreen for working towards achieving their evil agenda. They want to establish an Islamic state within Nigeria. Boko Haram also want to expand their caliphate to West Africa. Boko Haram are just an extremist group that are using religion as a political tool. Boko Haram is also using religion to justify the murder of innocent citizens and encouraging young men and women to become suicide bombers.
From independence till date, Nigeria has designed numerous policies most of which have been poorly implemented. Police brutality and impunity have become the order of the day. The economy has been struggling due to mismanagement while the population of the country keeps increasing. The rate of unemployment has been on the increase and politicians keep paying lip service to job creation. Many people are killed extra-judiciously by the police and military personnel with no consequences. There is also the problem of human right abuses. Military rule was a disaster but democracy does not seem to be functional. Oil wealth is not shared equitably. Profits from crude oil over the decades have produced a class of wealthy Nigerians who live a life of luxury. Nigeria’s wealth is starched in banks abroad and frittered away. The concentration of wealth in the hands of few Nigerian elites has led to extreme poverty. As a matter of fact, Nigeria is now the poverty capital of the world. About 70 per cent of the Nigerian population now live on less than $1.9 a day. Nigeria continues to suffer from bad governance and leadership. 
The reasons espoused by Boko Haram for their attacks is the failure of government especially those of Northern Nigeria. According to Boko Haram, there is economic disparity between the North and the South. Corruption has been so pervasive in government at the national and sub-national levels. These have contributed to extreme poverty, illiteracy, youth unemployment, lack of education and poor health services. In addition there is extrajudicial killings as well as police brutality and impunity which are the strategies government have employed in response to agitations by religious sects, ethnic groups and the citizens. Furthermore, government failed to nip the issue of Boko Haram insurgency in the bud. They allowed the problem fester.
The truth is that government and the political elites provided the recipe for this insurgency. The Nigerian elites shared the country’s wealth at the expense of development in the North and other parts of the country.
The handover of power to Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa by the colonial masters in 1960 provided an opportunity for the North to be more developed than the South but Northern elites and politicians did not deem it fit to develop their region. Since independence, Northern elites and politicians have spent more time in the corridors of power than the South. Northern elites and politicians have superintended over 19 states more than those in the South. Northern elites and politicians have also occupied the highest number of seats at the National Assembly. Yet, Northern Nigeria is underdeveloped, uneducated, and unhealthy to borrow the words of Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. Many Northern elites and politicians attended the best schools both locally and internationally. Rather than expose future generations to this kind of education, they promoted the Almajiri which is a system of Islamic education practiced in Northern Nigeria placing it above western education. And because the new generation do not have access to the kind of education the Northern elites and politicians had, they are faced with the challenges of early child marriage, illiteracy, poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities leading to drug abuse, banditry, kidnapping and terrorism. Nigerian elites and politicians use the Almajiri children to achieve their own selfish interests such as mobilising