The Humanitarian Community Needs a Foreign Service
George Ward, Jr. Monday, 29 November 2010
The financial resources available to international private humanitarian organizations have grown rapidly in the past couple of decades. According to the Center for Global Prosperity of the Hudson Institute, US private philanthropy directed to developing countries in 2008 amounted to $37.3 billion. That figure actually exceeded US official development assistance, which came to $26.8 billion. Of total private philanthropy, over half—$20 billion—was donated through American non-government organizations (NGOs) ($11.8 billion) and religious organizations ($8.2 billion). Globally, some of the international NGO alliances and federations dispose of development resources greater than the development assistance budgets of some donor countries. By any measure, NGOs play major roles in responding to natural and man-made disasters and in long-term development programs throughout the world.
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