WUNRN
WUNRN asks how much of this Humanitarian Aid is designated for women/gender!
Via IRIN - http://newirin.irinnews.org/the-humanitarian-economy
WEBSITE INCLUDES MULTIPLE GRAPHS & CHARTS.
The Humanitarian Economy – Where Is All the Money Going?
FUNDING OF LOCAL & NATIONAL HUMANITARIAN ACTORS –
REPORT
Direct Link to Full 16-Page 2015 Report:
http://www.local2global.info/wp-content/uploads/l2gp_local_funding_final_250515.pdf
Emergency aid funding has risen tenfold in the last 14 years. A few major donors and a handful of giant aid agencies dominate this "economy" - one which outstrips any country for its inequality.
Giving
so little money directly to local organisations – which are on the frontline of
response – not only limits their capacity development but also underlines the
paternalistic – or even colonial – attitude held by donors in the North and
West, about aid actors in the global South.
Follow the money
Conventional emergency aid money flows overwhelmingly to UN
agencies, big western-based charities and the Red Cross / Red Crescent
Movement. A tiny fraction is supplied directly to frontline charities in the
affected countries. However, as the big agencies sub-contract smaller agencies,
a lot of the actual work is done by national NGOs - how much,
though, is remarkably unclear.
Money might pass through three or four agencies before
reaching people in need. Each take some overhead and project management costs
from the cash along the way, while reporting to the next level up. UN agencies
implement little themselves, most often relying on international NGOs to be
their first level sub-contractor.
“Pooled funds” further complicate the picture. The
allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars is unclear, as some of the
ambiguous grey boxes in the previous graphic show. The concentration of finance
in the hands of large first-level agencies could be argued to provide a form of
"cheque book coordination", but at what cost?