Tracking External Donor Funding.pdf - NDC

Figure 1: Geography of West Bank
and Gaza Strip
What Population Areas do PNGOs Serve
A second component of our work looked at the target population being affected by external aid through the PNGO
sector. To do so, the study adopts the PCBS categorization of Palestinians into three distinct populations or types of
residence:
Urban is defined as: (1) a population area where the number of residents equals 10,000 or more; (2) a population area
where the number of residents is between 5,000 and 9,999 and four out of the five conditions are met: there is a water
network, a health clinic, an electricity network, and a high school. The center of a governorate is also considered to be
an urban area regardless of its size.
Refugee Camps are those areas under the administration of UNRWA, resulting from the 1948 or 1967 wars. The PCBS
defines the areas which are neither urban nor camp as Rural. The Bureau used to use the terms city, village, and camp,
defining “city” as a population area with a municipality which pre-dates 1967.
The Sector of Work
An important part of our survey tries to understand the sector of external aid to PNGOs. Though there are a number of
different sector frameworks, the most widely used being the OECD-DAC definitions adopted by the MoP, our research
uses the categorization developed by MAS in 2001. We feel these definitions are more suited to the unique environment
of Palestine and the work of PNGOs here. Furthermore, this allowed us to utilize the key findings of previous MAS
studies in the NGO sector from 2001 and 2007.
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