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，慈善机构在海外援助中发挥着重要作用。在过去的三十年里，公众对海外慈善机构的捐款大幅增长。现在大约有11000个慈善机构，在慈善委员会注册，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、救助儿童会和基督教援助会，但也有大量的小型组织——其中许多是最近才成立的，其中许多在少数国家开展工作。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工作的总体模式知之甚少，对它们与英国哪些地区有联系的总体模式也知之甚少。目的和研究问题因此，该项目旨在提供英国和海外慈善联系的详细概述。这将是此类项目中的第一个。它将有三个主题，每个主题都有一些研究问题：1。在英国注册的慈善机构在海外的哪些地方工作？请注意，政府提供的援助称为“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。2.慈善运作的国别模式是否倾向于强化政府提供援助的模式，同一国家倾向于两者都受益，还是不同国家倾向于两者都受益？英国有哪些地方与海外慈善机构有特别紧密的联系？英国的一些地区呢？英国的某些地方和某些海外国家之间是否存在紧密联系？提供海外慈善机构的背景在海外工作的11,000个慈善机构中，有多少涉及发展和救济？他们扮演什么角色——例如，有多少人为项目提供资助，有多少人提供服务？慈善机构的收入分配情况如何？有多少大型慈善机构，又有多少小型慈善机构？在过去的二三十年里，这个行业发生了怎样的变化？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，如何受益？该项目将：-通过向个别慈善机构提供将其工作置于更广泛的慈善活动模式的背景下所需的信息，对慈善机构有用。-通过对不同海外国家的官方援助和自愿援助的相对作用提供新的认识，对政府有用。-与对这些组织感兴趣的公众成员相关，特别是在过去25-30年国际发展捐款显著增加的情况下。从长远来看，该项目的目标是在一个可能变得更加突出的领域提供第一个可靠的分析——援助在政治和公共议程上的地位很高，国际慈善机构的规模也在不断扩大。

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.