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The largest American NGO operating in the West Bank and Gaza, [1] Anera works closely with local institutions, such as schools, universities, health facilities, cooperatives, municipalities, grassroots communities, and charitable associations. [2] Anera is funded by individual donors and grants from public and private institutions. [3]
Foreign funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a controversial issue in some countries. In the late Cold War and afterward, foreign aid tended to be increasingly directed through NGOs, leading to an explosion of NGOs in the Global South reliant on international funding. Some critics of foreign funding of NGOs contend that foreign ...
This support reflects not only humanitarian concerns and historical ties but also the importance the United States attaches to sustainable development and the restoration of an independent, sovereign, unified Lebanon. Some of current funding is used to support the activities of U.S. and Lebanese private voluntary organizations engaged in rural ...
According to their webpage, AFAC has raised slightly more than USD 47 million and allocated almost USD 36 million (equal to 75%) as grants to projects from 2007 to 2021. At the same time, they report to have received more than 15.000 applications. [3] AFAC supports projects both by established and emerging artists mainly from the Arab world.
Faced with an increasing funding crunch, the United Nations will cut the number of refugee families receiving cash assistance in Lebanon by nearly a third next year, a spokesperson for the U.N ...
In 1989, the Taef Agreements put an end to 15 years of civil war and marked the beginning of a progressive return to peace in the country. After 10 years of emergency relief and assistance to people wounded in war, Amel decided to move from an emergency approach to a longer-term development approach, embodied by an interim restructuring (election of a new board committee and reorganization of ...
Climate Action Network; Abbreviation: CAN: Formation: 1989 (36 years ago) (): Type: Advocacy group: Legal status: Non-profit, non-governmental: Purpose: Network of over 1300 non-governmental organizations in over 130 countries working to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels
Lebanon's involvement with the World Bank Group began in August 1955 with the funding of the Litani Power and Irrigation project. [1] As of 2017, 62 years after its entrance into the organization, Lebanon has 21 World Bank projects active throughout the nation, [2] and as of May 2017 has received about $1 billion in financial aid and investment from the group. [3]