Funding to Syrian Humanitarian Actors. Between sub-contracting and partnership
(2016)- Abstract
- A new report from L2GP estimates, that while Syrian humanitarian actors were responsible for delivering 75% of the humanitarian assistance in 2014, they received only 0.3% of the direct and 9.3 % of the indirect cash funding available for the overall Syria response. Despite their crucial role, Syrian NGO’s struggled to get their most basic costs covered in the sub-contracting and partnership agreements they have with international agencies. While international actors are all committed to transparency, 30% of the known funding remains unknown in terms of which humanitarian actor actually received the funding. Private remittances and assistance from diaspora groups were found to play a crucial role in day-to-day survival but it remained... (More)
- A new report from L2GP estimates, that while Syrian humanitarian actors were responsible for delivering 75% of the humanitarian assistance in 2014, they received only 0.3% of the direct and 9.3 % of the indirect cash funding available for the overall Syria response. Despite their crucial role, Syrian NGO’s struggled to get their most basic costs covered in the sub-contracting and partnership agreements they have with international agencies. While international actors are all committed to transparency, 30% of the known funding remains unknown in terms of which humanitarian actor actually received the funding. Private remittances and assistance from diaspora groups were found to play a crucial role in day-to-day survival but it remained impossible to estimate their exact volume. (Less)
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- Els, Christian ; Mansour, Kholoud LU and Carstensen, Nils
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-05
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- Book/Report
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- published
- subject
- publisher
- Local to Global Protection (L2GP)
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 4c4c2977-6ecf-4400-875b-9a2e2c4d672e
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- https://www.local2global.info/research/the-humanitarian-economy/funding-syria
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- 2019-03-18 21:47:19
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- 2019-03-19 15:44:51
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