Tracking External Donor Funding.pdf - NDC

Year
# of NGOs
Returning
data
Table 3: PNGO Survey Results versus Estimated Aid to PNGOs
% of Total
NGOs
Surveyed
Total Amount
Surveyed (USD)
PNGOs
MoP Estimate
of Total Aid to
PNGOs
% MoP
Estimate
Surveyed
Est’d total
Ext’l Aid to
PNGOs (MAS)
% of MAS
Estimates
Surveyed
1999 41 51 39,000,000 48,000,000 82 53,000,000 74
2000 24 30 20,000,000 55,000,000 37
2001 27 34 28,000,000 93,000,000 31
2002 31 39 36,000,000 103,000,000 35
2003 37 46 31,000,000 65,000,000 47
2004 44 55 42,000,000 57,000,000 74
2005 61 76 55,000,000 218,000,000 27
2006 80 100 121,000,000 196,000,000 62 136,000,000 89
2007 78 98 147,000,000 213,000,000 69
2008 78 98 126,000,000 258,000,000 49
Total Funding Captured 645,000,000
Note: Estimates to the nearest million and percentages to the nearest whole number.
PNGO Survey Sample Analysis
A key point discussed in our PNGO survey Focus
Group 4 , was the fact that our PNGO sample does not
offer a representative picture of PNGO activities in terms
of sector, geography and target population. However, the
survey of less than five percent of the estimated number
of PNGOs did not aim to map these institutions. Instead
we aimed to track the activities of donors and primarily
the activities of the largest PNGOs, who are also the
largest recipients of external aid, in terms of the sector,
geography and target of their work. The following
sections highlight some of the characteristics of our
sample.
Scope of Work
33 of the 80 PNGOs we surveyed (41%) work at the
national level and provide services throughout both the
West Bank and Gaza Strip. 19 respondent PNGOs (24%)
claimed to work throughout the West Bank only and 16
(20%) claimed to work throughout the Gaza Strip only.
Finally, 11 PNGOs claimed to work at the district or
governorate level and only one PNGO’s activities
remained at the individual community level. 54 of the 80
PNGOs surveyed (68%) had established branch offices
to extend the scope of their services.
Besides the actual budgets of those sampled, this is the
best indication that our survey is weighted heavily
towards large PNGOs. According to the 2007 MAS
Mappings, only 11% of PNGOs worked at the national
level, 8.1% at the level of the West Bank and 12.4%
throughout all of the Gaza Strip. Whereas only one
surveyed PNGO worked at the local level, in 2007 31.9%
of all PNGOs did so.
Sector Groupings of PNGO Sample
As the limited PNGO survey sample worked to track
trends in external aid as opposed to PNGO activities, the
19 sectors were divided into 5 groups, in order to have a
broader picture of international donor activities. Table 4
shows the distribution of sectors into groupings.
Table 5 shows the distribution of our sample by sector,
grouping and region. As our intention was to capture as
much of the external aid as possible within the scope of
our sample, some figures stands out clearly.
18 of the 80 PNGOs surveyed were focused on rightsbased
development and located in the Central West Bank
(C WB). 10 of the Economic based PNGOs and 5 of the
Education-based PNGOs were also from the C WB. The
reason for this over representation will become clear
throughout the study, but it is worth mentioning now.
When tracking external donor funding to PNGOs, as
opposed to mapping PNGO activity, a small targeted
sample is capable of capturing the bigger picture; but
only if one is to recognize the existing geographic and
sectoral inequalities of aid to PNGOs, rather than attempt
to build a sample representative of PNGOs themselves.
While our survey of 1,388 PNGOs in 2006 yielded an
estimate of nearly 136 million USD in external aid to the
sector; our sample shows that almost 90% of it is
captured by only 80 organizations.
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The PNGO Survey workshop was held at MAS on October 26 th ,
2009,
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