ABSTRACT
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in post-war Iraq face several difficulties and dilemmas, of which the most crucial is to avoid politicising their responses. Many NGOs have expressed serious concerns about the implications of the increased presence of military forces in the humanitarian arena. Non-humanitarian NGOs ran the risk of imposing practices and ways of thinking that are alien to the target countries. Many international NGOs, however, are dependent on government donors for their funding. NGOs such as International Rescue Committee (IRC), CARE, and Worldvision, which are financially dependent on United States Agency for International Development (USAID), are in fact large service providers that act as subcontracting agents of the occupying forces – that is, the United States and Great Britain. The leading US humanitarian organisations – IRC, CARE, Worldvision, and Save the Children –have major differences with the Pentagon's role in the rebuilding of Iraq.
