Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 82)
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- Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 82)
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4. catholic Relief Service (CRS)
5. International Churches Committee (iec)
6. CARE
Each of these agencies has its own objectives, sources of finance,
and terms of operation. All of them were surveyed individually
through an in depth study conducted by the researcher during the
Course of this work. This section, however, includes only some
Qeneral remarks regarding their current activities on the West Bank
And guidelines for the role they might play in developing West
Bank agriculture.
a. Size of aid funds
Although they tend to earmark fairly "large"’ sums of aid in their
Opening budgets, a striking observation in this regard is that
the actual amount of aid extended by voluntary agencies is
small, Several years after they commenced their operations,
the combined volune of aid the VA's advance has not yet exceeded
million dollars a year,’ covering both the West Rank and Gaza
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As far as their activities in the agricultural sector are
concerned, ANERA is the largest donor, followed respectively
by CDF, MOC, CARE, CRS and Icc,
All aid advanced by voluntary agencies is in the form of grants
which are usually balanced by funds from recipients themselves.
Grants advanced by VA's have often been critically important
for initiating projects and carrying them to completion.
Source of funds
ANERA and CDF derive more than 70 percent of their funds (CDF
all of it) from US AID, which is an integral organ of the US
State Department. The rest of the voluntary agencies receive
their funds from a variety of religious and philanthropic
Organizations, not excluding the possibility of link-up with
US AID or other political entities.
Objectives
ANERA restricts its services mainly to agriculture and it deals
with cooperative societies and public institutions (eg.
municipalities and universities). CDF is more concerned with
health and drinking water projects and it also tries to keep
its contacts with individual farmers to a minimum. The rest of
the VA's have a wider range of activities, though on a smaller
Scale, and they do not have over-riding restrictions against
Contacts with individual farmers.
The undue emphasis on cooperative societies has not only
channelled aid to institutions with a chronically low efficiency,
viduals
but it has also left out an extensive spectrum of indi:
and who may be as needy yet more efficient users of aid.
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- Hisham Masoud Awartani
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