Poverty

===Private sector===
{{See also|Nongovernmental organization}}
The [[private sector]] includes [[nonprofit organization|nonprofit]] [[nongovernmental organization]]s as well as for-profit institutions involved in combating poverty. In recent decades, the number of nongovernmental organizations has increased dramatically. The [[High level forums on aid effectiveness]] that was coordinated by the [[OECD]] found that this leads to fragmentation where too many agencies were financing too many small projects using too many different procedures and that the civil service of the donor countries were overstretched producing reports for each.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/international/2008/09/04/a-scramble-in-africa|title=A scramble in Africa|publisher=Economist magazine|access-date=2 June 2023|date=4 September 2008}}</ref>

The ''[[Poverty industrial complex]]'' refers to for-profit companies taking over roles previously held by government agencies. The incentive for profit in such companies has been argued to interfere with efficiently providing the needed services.