The COVID-19 pandemic presents Northern-based development organisations with unprecedented difficulties. They are challenged in fundraising opportunities in their home countries and in finding ways to continue their work in the Global South. As the first study to present a systematic mixed method, cross-country study of small-scale, voluntary development organisations in four different European countries, this study provides insight into the role of these private development initiatives (PDIs) in the COVID-19 crisis and sheds light on the differential impact of the crisis on these organisations. Whereas most PDIs are involved in long(er)-term development interventions, the COVID-19 crisis was for most organisations their first experience of emergency aid. Overall, we see strong resilience among PDIs and also find that the organisations which relied more exclusively on traditional methods of fundraising (offline) received a greater funding hit than organisations—often with more younger members—that had already moved to online fundraising.

COVID-19 大流行给北方的发展组织带来了前所未有的困难。他们在本国筹款机会和寻找继续在全球南方工作的方法方面面临挑战。作为第一项提出系统混合方法的研究，该研究对四个不同欧洲国家的小型自愿发展组织进行了跨国研究，该研究提供了对这些私人发展倡议 (PDI) 在 COVID-19 危机中的作用的见解并阐明危机对这些组织的不同影响。尽管大多数 PDI 都参与了长期（更）长期的发展干预，但对于大多数组织而言，COVID-19 危机是他们第一次经历紧急援助。全面的，