This call for direct investment in national leaders is clear: the aid system must shift from a top-down, donor-driven approach to inclusive, locally-led development that puts community voices at the centre. Donors need to fund big and fund local. #FutureOfCooperation

But even now, the established players do not seem too keen on change: Just recently, a leading German think tank suggested in a op-ed for the Fourth Financing for Development (FfD) Conference:

“Innovation may have to wait. For now, simply keeping multilateral efforts afloat may be the best possible outcome.”

So even now, the industry seems more concerned with its top line figures and maintaining its structures than with the structural challenges it has been put off for too long already. A lot of work required for positive change!

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