SEE Portal - Homepage / News / News:Macedonia - Foreign Donors Pull-Out, Life-Line Identified in the EU Funds: "oreign Donors Pull-Out, Life-Line Identified in the EU Funds
Zaklina Gjorgjevic, Utrinski Vesnik
27 July 2006
The announced availability of the news pre-accession EU funda – IPA, was received by NGOs with much joy. On the other hand, it increases their fears of a pull-out or reduction of foreign aid coming into the country. Foreign representatives in Macedonia warn that it is only a matter of time before the pull-out of foreign donors, writes Zaklina Gjorgjevic in “Utrinski vesnik”.
The prognosis are dire – the smaller non-governmental organizations will cease to exist completely, and even the survival of the larger organizations is questionable. The domestic donors are seen as the last option, but such donors can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Macedonia remains in the circle of isolated countries in which the companies have not adopted the custom to promote the NGO sector and its activities. Hungary, on the other hand, has established a well-functioning system of “philanthropy of percentages”. "
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