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Chapter 9 covers the role of funding as fuel for diplomatic efforts, what donors look for, and how to find them. Special attention is given to potential benefits as well as conflicts of interest that can arise from receiving funds from governments or commercial institutions.
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MSF (not a member of InterAction). MSF determines people’s needs by conducting its own evaluations on the ground. More than 90 % of MSF’s overall funding comes from millions of private sources, not governments. This goes up to 100 % for certain contexts like Afghanistan. This allows MSF to act and speak independently from any pressure and to stay outside the cluster system initiated by the United Nations coordinating humanitarian actions. The organization does not take sides in armed conflicts, provides care on the basis of need, and pushes for independent access to victims of conflict as required under international humanitarian law (Tronc 2012). That said, it does criticize governments and non-state actors.
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The constitutional issue was that USAID said to get USAID funds NGOs would have to espouse a policy of opposition to prostitution which would limit their ability to use non-USAID funds to work with prostitutes. One of the two courts which heard the case agreed that USAID was unconstitutionally attempting to compel speech.
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Sonagachi is one of the oldest and largest red-light districts in the city.
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Thanks to UN/OCHA staff for help on this.
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Thanks to UN/OCHA staff for help on this.
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Thanks to UN/OCHA staff for help on this.
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Thanks to UN/OCHA staff for help on this.
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Roeder, L.W., Simard, A. (2013). International Funding. In: Diplomacy and Negotiation for Humanitarian NGOs. Humanitarian Solutions in the 21st Century. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7113-4_9
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