Saturday, April 4, 2020

Covid will impact UN and International organizations

Covid will impact UN and International organizations
The economic consequences of Covid 19 will affect the funding of UN Agencies, international government and non government institutions. This will.also affect charity organization , development and civil society organizations at all.levels.
One of the major consequence will be income of non government organizations, charitable organizations and even CSR will get affected. This is due to three factors.
The OECD countries which provided bulk of international funds are the ones affected badly by the pandemic. Their budgets and public finance are overstretched. All these mean there will be less budget allocation for international development assistance /cooperation..
This will affect multilateral and bilateral funding. Many ny of the UN agencies and international non government organizations are largely dependent on the funds from EU and European countries, particularly Germany and Nordic countries. Given the gravity of the pandemic, economic consequence and less tax revenue, these countries are likely to significantly reduce international development assistance. America has already cut their development assistance under Trump Administration.
Secondly, as the economic crisis will lead to more under -employment, and unemployment. Hence there will be less spare money for charity. Hence direct fundraising will be affected
Thirdly as the profit margins of companies will be affected, there is going to be less resources for CSR funds
If the pandemic doesn't go away in the next two months, many of the non governmental organizations will be closed or merged
Hence, unless big and small development organizations have contingency plan there is a looming danger of imminent closure.
JS Adoor

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