Phenix Center for Economic & Informatics Studies Phenix Center for Economic & Informatics Studies
The Phenix Center for Sustainable Development presented the results of a study analyzing the relationship between civil society organizations (CSOs) and international partners.
The study aims to analyze this relationship by identifying the funding needs and priorities of CSOs and comparing them to the current practices of international partners to strengthen partnerships and enhance local funding efforts.
The results of the study showed that 85 percent of CSOs did not receive any funding from international partners (international funding), while 85 percent received funding from local partners (local funding).
The results also showed that there are challenges facing CSOs in obtaining international funding, such as the declining priorities of international partners in directing funding in Jordan, restrictions in the process of obtaining funding, complex bureaucratic procedures to obtain government approval, limited technical capabilities of staff within organizations in writing project proposals, and intense competition with civil society organizations.
The challenges that CSOs face in accessing local funding are limited funding, bias, and intermediation.
The results indicated that the sources of international funding for Jordanian CSOs were distributed among the United Nations and the International Labor Organization (ILO) at 50 percent, international non-governmental organizations such as Oxfam at 52 percent, international financial institutions at 5 percent, government agencies such as USAID and GIZ at 19 percent, and international education and research institutions at 5 percent.
As for the sources of local funding for Jordanian civil society organizations, they were distributed among the government and ministries (Ministry of Social Development) at 45 percent, donations from individual donors at 59 percent, the private sector at 36 percent, members’ fees at 38 percent, investments at 23 percent, and crowdfunding at 4 percent.
