Dear Nirmal, I belive that the 3 key papers that you should read to solve your issue and and develop a good lecture:

L.A. Ika - Project success as a topic in project management journals - Proj. Manag. J., 40 (4) (2009), pp. 6–19

A. Shenhar, D. Dvir - Toward a typological theory of project management - Res. Policy, 25 (4) (1996), pp. 607–632

W.S. Han, A.M. Yusof, S. Ismail, N.C. Aun - Reviewing the notions of construction project success  - Int. J. Bus. Manag., 7 (1) (2012), pp. 90–101

Hope this can help

Dear Nirmal,

We are working, in a research group in Brazil, initially observing some intangible aspects as social interaction, reputation, image, political representation, etc. from Marketing, Social communication and other areas. It is a start, we do not have until now any definitive answer, but it is a research work in the progress.

Our main dificulties are the lack of structure of NGO sector in Brazil, along with the usual problems that independent research faces in our country.

Regards

J@mil

Thanks Mr George Leal  Jami, for the reading references. I am now travelling ,will do a deep drive. I do feel environment In India is similar to Brazil, based on my preliminary study .

However, I am interested in applying  practical tips and monitor a few organisations , as on going basis.Here , how well  NGOs will gel with modern management tools and how long they will take is a question? However , with recent Legislation support for CSR, will be motivating the sector positively

Dear Mr. Nirmal Mudaliar,

As long as I know and researched in Brazil, there is only an initial application of management tools in NGOs, as, for instance, strategic planning techniques, marketing (specially branding) methods, balanced scorecard and other tools.

These organizations here mainly deal with social heterogeneity (unfortunately a topic where Brazil is one of the most problematic countries in the world) and sustainability.

J@mil

Dear George Leal Jami

Have a look at the following link

http://host.uniroma3.it/facolta/economia/db/materiali/insegnamenti/398_5103.pdf

You refer 'Shodhganga' net (India). You may find lot of research work on NGOs in India.

@Nirmal Kumar Mudaliar,

I think @George Leal Jamil has triggered in the right direction. I support his arguments fully.

Asmat Ali

Thanks, I am doing a preliminary search based on open source only. Also will try to do a sample survey as part of  giving inputs for the Trainer who is likely to finalize a short course . Later if any PG take interest and select small and medium sized NGO who are passionate and committed to  continuously improve, I will ensure a time slot for the same. Any research papers if recommended, I will review the same.    

Dear Nirmal,

from my point of view, the problem for monitoring and controlling NGOs' project management in a day to day basis is that the methodology for managing international development projects (the logical-framework approach) does not provide any tools for that control and so the projects defined trough this methodology play no attention to the definition of critical success criteria, critical success factors, and KPIs, which are the main instruments for project monitoring and control.

Hermano et al (2013), How to manage international development (ID) projects successfully. Is the PMD Pro1 Guide going to the right direction? International Journal of Project Management, 31(1):22–30.

Thanks Victor Hermano.

I am looking for free and open source only to cater small and Mid sized NGOs. With sustainability added as a dimension to BSC will enrich my approach.

Nirmal,

When you want to document your project management performance metrics, you need to make sure that you have the frame of reference ready and the actual figures will have to be compared with the estimated timeframe and cost. Performance metrics will make sense only when it is compared with the rules that we set for the project at the beginning of the project. By studying the performance metrics, we will be able to take corrective measures. Unless we know where we stand with reference to the estimated timeframe, we will not know whether we are on the right track or not. This is one of the most risky situations whereby we do not know where exactly we stand in terms of the project status as opposed to the estimated timeframe and cost. Stakeholders, schedual, risk, financial performance and penetration influence can be the measures but do not forget all this measure is according the NGO objectives. Have a look on Murphy et al(1996) research and performance measures. It is not far from what you need. 

Thanks Ehsan Chitsaz

Sure I will have a look if it is open source.Nope! need to pay through my nose!

Well, I do have a practical opportunity , having completed 40 days, CSR project to frame  with  your guidelines for training a NGO. Later extend it with  BSR   

I would like to add the point about CSR performance in NGOs projects (see the link I have attached)

http://csrtochangetheworld.blogspot.com/2012_08_01_archive.html

Dear Nirmal,

The status of a non-profit organization is usually determined by tax law. If the tax authorities are convinced that the organisation is not profit seeking, it will ussue a non-profit organization notice, so that no profit tax will be due. Hence, it is crucial to maintain this status. The status usually depends on the operations which the organisation undertakes or from which the organisation refrains. It can also depend on the volume of operations. Therefore, there should be control mechanisms in place to ensure that the operations performed do not cross the thresholds established by tax law and that prohibited operations are not performed at all.

Paul

Dear Paul E, you have raised a very important issue. In India too, the number of NGOs, Non-Government Organisations- non-profit companies, increase by leaps and bonds. They are misusing tax- reliefs and exemptions, looting education fields, creating black money or parallel economy and growing as political-mafia. Of course there are NGOs/Foundations/civil society organisations which are doing very good service to the all-beings and the nation but their number is less. There is need to control the non-profit companies through enacting suitable Act.

Dear  Dr. Arjun,

You are right with your criticism toward the misuse of the non-profit status by certain operators. The possibility not to pay any profit taxes serves as a strong incentive to construct schemes that help to obtain the non-profit status.

I assume, that to a certain degree the government is turning a blind eye on the non-genuine operators. This is because, in general, the non-profit sector performs lots of public tasks that the government cannot or does not want to perform for any reason. Such reasons may be budgetory constraints, lack of specialist knowledge, working overload with other tasks or the political agenda.

Paul  

Thanks Paul.