Tracking External Donor Funding.pdf - NDC

Even when donors were cooperative, they often maintained their own data sets and the need for standardization was
immediately recognized.
Finally, the PAMS staff and planning committees ran into further difficulties due to the donors scheduling and
announcement of their commitments, as ‘most donors make their actual commitments (for the following year) available
in June or Early July of that year’ (MoP, 2004:30).
V.2 Moving Forward
Despite the Inadequacies of the PAMS system, it has certainly been evolving in the right direction, each year becoming
a better and more useful resource for information on aid. Despite the continued improvement, it now looks like the
system is beginning to slow its progress considerably in 2009 under the auspices of the 13 th Palestinian government.
While this is written there is only one full-time employee at PAMS, down from the high of four in 2008, who is not
only tasked with tracking and updating data, but also supporting the ministries or the broader public through reports.
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