Tracking External Donor Funding.pdf - NDC

According to the survey, external funding to large PNGO
projects in Charity and Relief doubles between the first
and second period, as the onset of the Intifada increased
the need for short term assistance. Between 2006 and
2008, charity and relief projects receive just over 18% of
the total external aid to PNGOs.
External funding to large PNGOs in the Social Services
Grouping drops steadily over the three periods from
54.7% of total external aid in the first to 32.9% in the
last. The largest part of the social sector grouping is
healthcare, which alone captures 42.2% and 34.4% of
total funding to PNGOs in the first two periods. In the
third period, PNGO projects related to health received
19.8% of total funds. The Palestinian Medical Relief
Society (PMRS), one of the largest Palestinian healthcare
NGOs, declined to take in the survey, leading us to
believe that the percentage of funding captured by the
Health Services sector of the social services grouping
would be even higher.
According to our survey of PNGOs, external aid to
projects included in our Rights-based grouping
decreased slightly between the first and second period,
despite the increased focus on human rights at a time of
crisis. The percentage of aid designated to this grouping
rises between the second and third period, moving from
8.6% to 14.8% of the total, presumably spurred on by the
rapid increase in funding to democracy and good
governance in the 2005 lead up to Palestinian elections.
Figure 43: Distribution of External aid to Large PNGOs
by Sector Groupings & Period
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50
40
30
20
10
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1999-2000 2000-2005 2006-2008
Charity & Relief
Economic and Others
Rights-based Development
Educational
Social
Source: MAS, 2009 – PNGO Survey
External aid to PNGOs engaged in the Group Education
behaved predictably, dropping by more than half during
the Intifada, and recovering once more in the third
period, where it makes up 5.9% of externally funded
PNGO activities.
Funding to PNGOs working in sectors that benefit the
Economy rises steadily over the three periods analyzed.
In the first period this grouping captured 14.2% of total
aid to PNGOs, 21% over the second period and 27.9% in
the third - nearly as large as the Social Sector.
3.11.2 External Funding to Large PNGOs by
Target Area
Though our donor survey returned a more representative
picture of external aid to PNGOs by target population,
our survey of PNGOs captured an interesting picture of
the target populations of the largest PNGOs. Unlike our
20 to 10% between 2006 and 2008.
donor survey however, PNGO respondents were given
the option of choosing ‘All Populations’ to describe
the beneficiaries of large programs spread throughout
target areas. Though the data is more ambiguous,
interesting trends can be identified.
As the following figure 44 shows, large PNGO projects
targeting Urban areas have fallen steadily over the three
periods from around
External funding to PNGOs working with Rural
populations carries the largest percentage throughout the
period studied. In the first and second period, the
percentage of aid sits around 43%, dropping only slightly
in the second period in favor of refugees and ‘all
populations’. In the final period, rural populations are
allocated nearly 53% of the total.
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