Institutions and coordination
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This section explains who works in Gaza and how: UNRWA and its irreplaceable position, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, OCHA, and the cluster system that divides responsibility between them.
We write about it because most discussion of Gaza skips the practical question: who decides what? Who holds the data? Who authorises entry? Who classifies need? Answering those explains why one consignment of aid arrives and another, more urgent, does not.
We also cover where local and small organisations sit in this structure: what they can and cannot do, how they coordinate with larger bodies, and why the renewal of operating authorisations for 37 international NGOs is a matter touching millions of people rather than an administrative detail.
Our position in this section is that of a participant rather than an observer, so we write about what we see from inside the system, including what obstructs us within it.
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