Tracking External Donor Funding.pdf - NDC

3.6.4.5 External Funding to Social Service-Based
PNGOs
Health Services
The percentage of PNGOs engaged in Health Services
was at its peak in 2001 with the start of the Intifada, after
which it declines sharply, over 10%, into 2002. From
then on there is a steady decline, broken only by an
increase in 2006, presumably from the shifting of some
money out of the public health sector and into PNGOs.
From 2007 to 2008, the funding remained at a steady
15%.
Unlike the overall trend and governmental donors, INGO
funds declined straight through to 2008, without
climbing in 2006 in response to the elections. The INGO
donor sector also apportions a higher percentage of its
aid to health related activities that the Governmental
sector, presumably because the latter also funds the
Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH).
In 2006, MAS measured external financing to PNGOs in
the Health Services sector as covering a total of 50.2% of
their budgets. As many health INGOs offer their services
at a price, the amount of self-financing in this sector is
far higher than the others, with the exception of family
planning.
Elderly Care
According to our survey, Elderly Care is not a PNGO
sector heavily funded by external donors. The data may
also be open to the possibility of respondents including
Elderly Care projects that are part of larger health
programs into the Health Services sector.
In 2006, Elderly Care PNGOs only received 37.7% of
their budget from international aid. In contrast to most
other PNGOs, this sector receives a high percentage of
aid from self-financing revenues (20%), local sources
(28.3%) and from the Diaspora (11.1%) (MAS,
2007:80).
Disabled Care
After the height of the Intifada, and presumably in the
wake of intense violence, the Disability Care sector
began to grow. It peaked in 2003 at 6.74%, before
remaining steady at around 5% of total external aid to
PNGOs into 2008.
Unlike the overall trend in aid, INGO donor funding to
PNGOs working in the disabilities sector peaks in 2005,
at the same time when Governmental funding is at an all
time low, less than 1%. This could in part be due to the
fact that Governmental donors had shifted so much of
their funding into the sector of Human Rights,
Democracy and Good Governance in 2005 in advance of
the elections.
Disabled Care received 42% of its funding from external
aid in 2006 and a total of 31.9% of its funding from selffinancing
- much like PNGOs engaged in the more
general health sector (MAS, 2007:80).
Family Planning
According to our survey, external donor funding to
PNGO programs in Family Planning is almost
nonexistent. As we assume this is untrue, we suspect that
a number of respondents allocated these projects to other
sectors, such as Health Services or Women’s Affairs.
However the low figures are not too far off when we
look at the percentage of external aid in Family Planning
PNGOs’ budgets in 2006. According to MAS survey of
PNGOs in 2007, only 13.4% of funds came from abroad,
while a full 78.4% of aid came from self-financing. 2005
represents the peak in donor funding to the sector and the
trend is mimicked by both Governmental and INGO
donors.
Children’s Activities
External aid to PNGOs working in Children’s Activities
decreased dramatically between 2001 and 2002. In 2003
it began to recover dramatically, finally reaching its peak
of 8.04% in 2004. Between 2004 and 2005 there was a
dramatic drop in aid to the sector, presumably following
a shift in funding toward the PA or into sectors such as
Enhancing Democracy or Good Governance.
Both Governmental and INGO donors generally follow
the overall pattern of aid to the sector – with the former
apportioning a higher percentage of its disbursements
from 2003 forward. According to previous MAS
mappings, 75.6% of the budgets of PNGOs working in
Children’s Activities came from external aid (MAS,
2007:80).
Youth and Sports
Unlike work with the children’s sector, Youth and Sports
increased dramatically during the Intifada and peaked in
2003 at 3.62% of total aid. Since 2003, funding to the
sector has steadily declined. The increase in funding
throughout the Intifada was due largely to INGO donors,
who also apportioned a higher percentage of their aid to
the sector in general.
It is important to note that Youth and Sports
organizations are the most numerous type of PNGO in
the WB&GS, and at the same time, one of the sectors
receiving the least amount of external aid. External aid
made up 59.5% of Youth and Sport PNGO budgets in
2006. Local funding to the sector is higher than any
other, with the exception of elderly care, at 19.6% of
their operating budgets (MAS, 2007:80).
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