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Figure 38: The Location of International Donors’ Partner PNGO HQs
versus the Location of Externally Funded PNGO Project by Region (2008)
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
34%
32%
29%
24%
21%
22%
19% 20%
N WB C WB S WB GS
PNGO Distribution
Donor Project Distribution
Source: MAS, 2009 – Donor Survey. Population: PCBS 2007 Census.
Note: Percentges are rounded to the nearest whole number.
In the Northern West Bank, where 24.3% of Palestinians
live, and where over 29% of PNGOs are headquartered,
only 20.5% of externally financed projects are
implemented. In the Gaza Strip the disparity is much
greater. With a total of 39% of the Palestinian
population and 31.5 percent of the total PNGOs, only
21.6% of externally funding to PNGO activities are
implemented there 48 .
The following Figure compares the location of
international donors' PNGO partners with the location of
their project implementation
While the Figure above provides only a snapshot of the
geographic distribution of international donor funded
PNGO projects, the Figure below shows how this has
changed over the ten-year period.. According to our
survey, the Gaza Strip received a much higher
proportion of international aid in the late 1990's, until
peaking in 2000 at just over 60% of total aid 49 . In 2001,
with the onset of the Second Intifada, the percentage of
internationally funded PNGO projects in Gaza falls
dramatically, nearly 20%, before stabilizing between
23% and 30% from 2002 onward.
Internationally funded PNGO projects remained
relatively stable throughout the ten years studied,
remaining between 19% and 27% throughout, with the
exception of a slight decline in 2000. By 2008, the NWB
was the beneficiary of nearly the same percentage of
international funding as the GS, despite being home to
15% less of the of the Palestinian population.
The Central West Bank hosts the highest proportion of
internationally funded PNGO projects, despite being the
home to the smallest percentage of the Palestinian
population. According to our study, there is a dramatic
increase (nearly 15%) in the percentage of projects
implemented in the CWB between 2001 and 2002,
correlating very closely with the dramatic decline in the
GS over the same period. From 2002 onward, the
percentage of internationally funded PNGO projects
implemented in the CWB remains stable at or slightly
above 30% of the total. There is a slight dip in 2005,
once more seeming to correspond with a slight rise in the
GS.
The Southern West Bank was the location of
implementation of nearly 10% of externally funded
PNGO projects between 1999 and 2001, before climbing
to nearly 20% in 2002. From 2002 to 2008, the
percentage remains stable around 20% of the total.
In terms of the different types of donors studied, INGO
donors give a higher percentage of their aid to the NWB,
less than the average to the CWB, noticeably less to the
SWB and more to the GS than the average. Between
2007 and 2008, funding for project implementation in the
GS increased by 5% among INGO donors. Governmental
donors, on the other hand, devote over 34% of their
funding to projects implemented in the CWB.
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As the following sections will show, the low percentage of international aid to PNGOs in Gaza has not resulted from the 2007 takeover by
Hamas, but has remained consistently low since 2002.
However, these earlier years of data are biased toward the small number of organizations who were able to provide it.
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