Who provides aid

See the issues:

• National Governments and International Organizations – their commitment to MDGs

• Do cooperation for development action really benefits the target populations? How far they impact on the wider social settings?

• Why is EU so little effective in informing EU citizens about EU external aid programmes. What are the challenges?

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This is a section that should be made more specific for fund raising for development organizations!  It should not be theoretical: it should give practical indication on how to raise funds!

Bilateral Aid is given by the government of one country directly to another. Many dedicated governmental aid agencies dispense bilateral aid, for example USAID, and DFID.

Multilateral aid is given from the government of a country to an international agency, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Development Fund. These organizations are usually governed by the contributing countries. Donations from private individuals and for-profit companies are another significant type of aid. The practice of giving such donations, especially on the part of wealthy individuals, is known as philanthropy. Many immigrants move to areas of increased economic opportunity, and send money to friends and family members who still live in the countries they left. These payments are known as remittances (rather than philanthropy) and constitute a significant portion of international monetary transfers. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a major role in distributing aid - examples include ActionAid, Oxfam, and the Mercy Corps. Many non-profit charitable organizations solicit donations from the public to support their work; charitable foundations often oversee an endowment which they invest and use the proceeds to support aid organizations and other causes. Aid organizations may provide both humanitarian and development aid, or specialize in one or the other. A number of aid NGOs have an affiliation with a religious denomination.

Many NGOs conduct their own international operations - distributing food and water, building pipelines and homes, teaching, providing health care, lending money, etc. Some government aid agencies also conduct direct operations, but there are also many contracts with or grants to NGOs who actually provide the desired aid.

Scholarships to foreign students, whether from a government or a private school or university, might also be considered a type of development aid.

 Private aid

Development charities make up a vast web of non-governmental organizations, religious ministries, foundations, business donations and college scholarships devoted to development aid. Estimates vary, but private aid is at least as large as ODA within the United States, at $16 billion in 2003. World figures for private aid are not well tracked, so cross-country comparisons are not easily possible, though it does seem that per person, some other countries may give more, or have similar incentives that the US has for its citizens to encourage giving.

See also  EU approach to development aid

See the issues:

• National Governments and International Organizations – their commitment to MDGs

• How did Governments put into practice their official statements of commitment? : The impacts of foreign aid - Expectations and results

Who is in The  European Union as a whole (i.e., the Member States and the Commission) is the world's main humanitarian aid donors; the Humanitarian Aid department   (ECHO) is the service of the European Commission responsible for this activity.  The mandate to ECHO is to provide emergency assistance and relief to the victims of natural disasters or armed conflict outside the European Union.  ECHO’s task of  ensuring that  goods and services get to crisis zones fast is performed  thought ECHO partners. Its grants cover emergency aid, food aid and aid to refugees and displaced persons worth a total of more than €700 million per year  (2009). Related activities   feasibility studies for its humanitarian operations; monitoring humanitarian projects and sets up coordination arrangements; disaster prevention; technical assistance to partners; public awareness  networking and training study initiatives in the humanitarian field (NOHA).    http://ec.europa.eu/echo/about/what/presentation_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/echo/media/videos/pop-up.htm

 

Who is in The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization.  Founded in 1919, the International Federation comprises 186 member Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, a Secretariat in Geneva and more than 60 delegations strategically located to support activities around the world. There are more societies in formation. The Red Crescent is used in place of the Red Cross in many Islamic countries.   Disaster response represents the largest portion of the International Federation work, with assistance to around 30 million people annually from refugees to victims of natural disasters. This section includes our emergency response units and issues relating to humanitarian policies as we strive to improve the quality of our immediate response and long-term rehabilitation work.  http://www.ifrc.org/disasters/

 

 

 

 

 

Testiomonials Adela Rusu, Non-State Actor, Advocacy Expert, National Platform Coordinator, NGDO Platform Romania on Creating empowerment through information, communication, education and motivation. She  says that in the case of Romania, the country sustains the development of states from the geographic areas labeled as priorities for the Romanian foreign relations, namely the Eastern European states, the West Balkans and South Caucasian countries. However, Romania will, in principle, also support the least developed and low-income countries. The list of beneficiary states is expanding towards Central Asia, Africa and Latin America, as Romanian capacities in the assistance for development field are being consolidated.  Romania is, in principal, prepared to offer assistance in the following areas: Good governance, The strengthening of democracy and of the rule of law, Economic development, development education, Health, Development of infrastructure and environment protection. In the first phase, Romania will focus on a limited number of areas, where it has a strong advantage in comparison to the other donor countries: promoting human rights, strengthening of democracy, development education. See more in Interview to Adela Rusu(19)   http://www.TVP.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_to_Adela_Rusu

 

 

Other Resources The multimedia library of EuroAid  provides a wealth of resources, including hundreds of pictures taken in the field to show the true face(s) of development co-operation; a selection of audiovisual documents on selected projects and programmes; a catalogue of official publications in all of EuropeAid’s main fields of activity and geographical areas, not to mention key speeches and press releases.       http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm.

 

 

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