Heba Aly
Over the course of this podcast series, we’ve spoken to diplomats, to NGO executives, to the private sector, to aid workers on the ground, and there was one thing that came up in almost every conversation: the way donors fund aid.
Jeremy Konyndyk
Fifty percent of the total in the system goes to just three big UN agencies: UNHCR, WFP, and UNICEF. And the incentives for those, based on how donors fund them, is to capture as much money as possible.
Danny Sriskandarajah
Many of us are still waiting months on [from COVID-19] for donor money to flow through the system.