Tracking External Donor Funding.pdf - NDC

International Non-Governmental Organizations are an important conduit of international aid into the WB&GS –
they are also the least understood. These organizations receive both bi-lateral and multi-lateral funds, as well as
donations from various constituencies that are used for their own project implementation or partnership with
implementing PNGOs.
Types of NGOs
New Organizations (Vocational Centers) were formed at the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties and
adopted new methods of administration to tackle issues previously left unattended by the main Palestinian players. Such
organizations depend on a specialized professional staff for both their structure and function and include full-time, parttime,
and voluntary workers. Usually, their authoritative bodies are composed of a small number of interested people
who agree on the objectives of the organization and its message.
Traditional Organizations use less rigidly structured administrative methods in their work. Their interests usually
include charity work and activities related to local society, such as youth clubs and charitable institutions.
Development Organizations aim to generate a long-lasting impact on Palestinian society through sustainable projects
and programs, not by addressing the immediate needs of the population.
Relief Organizations are those whose programs aim at providing for immediate social needs, such as food, shelter,
housing, health and other services. These organization typically act in reaction to a event or crisis in the short term and
forego longer term development activities.
Aid Types
International flowing into the WB&GS is generally broken down into three types: PA Budget Support, Emergency Aid
and Development Assistance.
Budget Support includes all contributions to PNA institutions, and since 2006, to the Temporary International
Mechanism (TIM) and the ESSP, as well as any aid going directly to the Ministry of Finance to cover the government's
recurrent costs. It also includes payments of the PNA recurrent costs, such as fuel. Significantly, this does not include
support for specific ministries running specific programs—these are largely classified under development assistance (ie.
The Ministry of Health) (MoP, 2008:10).
Emergency Aid: Includes all funding to UNRWA and other humanitarian organizations, all funding which is directly
responding to the conflict such as rebuilding destroyed infrastructure or mitigating the effects of the Wall or closures,
any short-term employment generation/ job creation activities, all food aid, all work directed at refugee camps, all work
addressing crossing points, psychosocial/trauma programs, Quartet activities, support to Palestinians in Israeli detention,
Avian flu-related activities, any funds channeled through the Consolidated Appeals Process, and conflict/humanitarian
monitoring activities (ibid).
Development Aid: Includes everything which does not fall in the first two categories, including "peacebuilding"
activities. The broad definition of development, and its overlap into by other sectors, is reflective of the wide variety of
organizations that fall under this banner. This is the primary type of aid flowing to the PNGO sector and the least
understood by planners.
Local Partners
Though our study does not distinguish between NGOs and CBOs, there is a noticeable and growing difference between
the two.
NGOs (PNGOs) are the larger, well-established organizations that have grown more and more dependant and adept to
the international aid system. These organizations have administrative capacity, infrastructure and organized governance.
While nearly all of them are engaged in direct project implementation, large PNGOs, much like the INGOs, now often
partner with smaller organizations known as CBOs.
CBOs are often better described as ‘ad-hoc’ organizations that form around a single project or idea before melting back
into society. They usually lack the same structures, hierarchies and expertise as larger NGOs, and as such, are unable to
access international funding in the same way.
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