IT IS surprising that while India has one of the largest number of active not-for-profit, non­governmental organisations, most global donor agencies and volun­tary agencies lament that they do not find enough ‘eligible partners’ to work with. “We fund only around 250 NGOs in India. Find­ing professional, above board or­ganisations that will follow trans­parent ways of functioning is a challenge (here),” says Nisha Agarwal, CEO, Oxfam India, a US-based organisation that mainly raises and donates funds to grass-roots agencies. Oxfam’s funding budget for 2009 was `90 crore.