ABSTRACT
This chapter mainly focuses on organisation and mandate issues. Among other things, it suggests that NGO coordination is not a fixed or optimum reality. It is contingent upon a host of factors, ranging from conditions on the ground to the current shape of international relations. The developing antagonism between the Sudanese state and international and national Christian NGOs had important implications for ERD. During 1990, when the Cross-Border Operations (CBO) reached its peak, the JRP Southern Line Operation was also delivering an average of 9,000 mt per month to Tigray and 3,000 mt to Northern Wollo. Soviet military assistance to Ethiopia also encouraged the West to compete with developmental aid and, increasingly, humanitarian relief. By the mid-1980s, the Cold War in Africa was all but over. Events of this period represented a major change in international relations.
