Development NGOs are facing a number of challenges as the geography of aid changes. The massive diversion of funds into the Balkans is coming to an end, and aid funds are now being sucked into Iraq and Afghanistan. The entry of new players to the donor world is also on the horizon as the European Union expands East and its accession countries are obliged to create their own aid programmes, albeit starting from a very different history to those in Western Europe.There is already a generation of NGOs in both developing and developed countries that have grown increasingly dependent upon different forms of tax-based official funding. This article explores how these and other trends will affect NGOs.
This edition of ontrac follows the changing geography of aid, particularly highlighting the implications of changing donor funding for NGOs. Anne Garbutt examines how these trends have played out in changing patterns of donor funding to civil society development in Central Asia, both before and after September 11th 2001. Mia Sorgenfrei reports on the current state of NGO–state relations in France including changing funding patterns.
In ‘Capacity Building News’ Brenda Lipson challenges donor reviews of personnel-sending by proposing new approaches. Future editions of ontrac will continue to monitor these changing donor trends, especially in the light of the ‘War or Terror’ and the increasing politicisation of the environment in which NGOs are operating.
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