Tracking External Donor Funding.pdf - NDC

Figure 34: Location of International Aid Agencies by Region (2008)
5%
5%
6%
84%
Source: PASSIA Diaries, 2009
N WB C WB S WB GS
The Central West Bank
Within the Central West Bank, we tried to analyze
changes in the preferences of donors between Ramallah
and Jerusalem over a ten year period. As the two cities
are located next to each other, and both are important
centers of political activity, it was expected that the
trends would be negatively related. That is, a decrease in
the number of agencies in one city would mean an
increase in the number of the other. We also tried to
measure the impact of Israel’s construction of the
Separation Wall in 2002, with the assumption that it
would lead to significant fluctuations in the percentages
of NGOs working in either city as restrictions and
obstacles to movement increased.
However, as the Figure 35 below shows, from 2002 until
2006, the percentages of agencies located in either city
remains relatively stable. One possible explanation for
this has already been discussed. Namely, the fact that
movement restrictions do not affect international
agencies in the same way that they do Palestinian ones,
allowed international organizations to stay put
throughout the Wall’s construction.
Figure 35: External Donor and Agency Distribution
in the Central West Bank (1999 – 2008)
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Ramallah-Bireh Jerusalem Jericho
Source: PASSIA Directory, 2000 – 2009
Note: The numbers do not add up to 100% because the graph excludes the HQs of
donors in other regions of the WB&GS
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