Emerging international connections of philanthropy: exploring the global and local geography of UK registered charities working overseas

海外援助是一个突出的问题，慈善机构在提供海外援助中发挥着重要作用。在过去的30年里，公众对海外慈善机构的捐款有了相当大的增长。目前在慈善委员会注册的慈善机构约有11 000个，在国际上开展工作。这包括许多知名的大型慈善机构，如乐施会（Oxfam）、救助儿童会（Save the Children）和基督教援助会（Christian Aid），但也包括大量较小的组织--其中许多是最近才成立的，许多在少数几个国家开展工作。尽管这些慈善机构数量众多，总收入可观，但我们对它们在海外开展工作的总体模式知之甚少，而且很少了解他们与英国哪些地区有联系的整体模式。目的和研究问题因此，该项目旨在提供英国与海外之间慈善联系的详细概述。这将是此类项目的第一个。它将有三个主题，每个主题都有一些研究问题：1。慈善机构运营国家的全球模式英国注册的慈善机构在海外哪里工作？请注意，政府提供援助，称为“官方发展援助”，它最近审查了哪些国家应该接受官方发展援助。慈善运作的国家模式是否倾向于加强政府提供援助的模式，同一个国家倾向于从这两个来源中受益，还是不同的国家倾向于从这两个来源中受益？2.英国地方的海外慈善联系英国是否有一些地方与海外慈善联系特别紧密？而英国的部分地区则相对较少？是否可以确定英国特定地方与特定海外国家之间的紧密联系？3.提供海外慈善部门的背景在海外工作的11,000个慈善机构中，有多少参与发展和救济？它们发挥什么作用-例如，有多少个机构为项目提供赠款，有多少个机构提供服务？该部门的收入分配情况如何-有多少大型慈善机构，有多少小型慈善机构？在过去的20-30年里，该部门发生了怎样的变化：在海外工作的志愿组织的数量增长到了什么程度？该项目将使用慈善委员会的公开数据来回答这些问题。这项研究将使谁受益，以及如何受益？该项目将：-对慈善机构有用，向各个慈善机构提供必要的信息，以便将其工作纳入更广泛的慈善活动模式。- 通过提供对不同海外国家官方援助和自愿援助的相对作用的新理解，对政府有用。- 特别是在过去25-30年里，国际发展捐款显著增加。从长远来看，该项目旨在为一个可能变得更加突出的领域提供第一个可靠的分析--随着援助在政治和公共议程上的重要性，以及国际慈善机构的规模不断扩大。

ContextOverseas aid is a prominent issue, and charities play a significant role in providing overseas aid. Donations from the public to charities working overseas have grown considerably over the last thirty years. There are now around 11,000 charities, registered with the Charity Commission, that work internationally. This includes many of the well-known larger charities, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and Christian Aid, but also a large number of smaller organisations - many of them quite recently formed, and many of them working in a small number of countries.Despite the number of these charities and their significant total income, we know very little about the overall pattern of where they work overseas, and very little about the overall pattern of which parts of the UK they have links with.Aim and research questionsTherefore, the project aims to provide a detailed overview of the charitable connections between the UK and overseas. This will be the first project of its kind. It will have three main themes, each with a number of research questions:1. Global patterns in charities' country of operationWhere do UK registered charities work overseas? Note that the Government provides aid, called 'Official Development Assistance (ODA)', and that it recently reviewed which countries should receive ODA. Does the country pattern of charitable operation tend to reinforce the pattern of aid provided by government, with the same countries tending to benefit from both, or do different countries tend to benefit from the two sources?2. Overseas charitable connections of places in the UKAre there parts of the UK that have particularly strong overseas charitable connections? And parts of the UK that have relatively few? Can strong links between particular places in the UK and particular overseas countries be identified?3. Providing context on the overseas charitable sectorOf the 11,000 charities working overseas, how many are involved in development and relief? What roles do they play - for example, how many provide grants for projects and how many provide services? What is the distribution of income in the sector - how many very large charities are there, and how many smaller ones? How has the sector changed over the last 20-30 years: to what extent has there been a growth in the number of voluntary organisations working overseas? The project will use publicly available data from the Charity Commission to answer these questions.Who will this research benefit, and how? The project will:- be useful for charities, by providing individual charities with the information needed to place their work within the context of patterns of wider charitable activity. - be useful for government, by providing a new understanding of the relative role of official and voluntary aid in different overseas countries. - be relevant for members of the public who have an interest in these organisations, particularly since donations for international development have increased markedly over the last 25-30 years.Longer-term, the project aims to provide a first solid piece of analysis in an area that is likely to become even more prominent - with aid high on the political and public agenda, and with international charities growing in size.