I agree --- I had the same comment to make, and I also witnessed it. Furthermore, some donors might have criterias linked to their contributions, even if those criterias might not seem "bad" at first sight, the organisation receiving the funds is still bound to them, hence loose of piece of independence. "donor" fatigue" was also mentionned above, and it is also a form of dependence, since the organization rely on the funding for their actvities... A couple of years ago, many donor countries wanted to shift their funding into "migration" also to answer to public pressure, as a result, some humanitarian organizations had to adpat their programming to answer to this new request, eventhough it was not making sense in all the contexts.

Source author: Fanny Charmey fanny.charmey@eda.admin.ch