{"id":5725,"date":"2019-10-03T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T06:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"align-donor-funding-to-work-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/03\/align-donor-funding-to-work-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Align Donor Funding To Work For Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By <em>Scott\nBellows<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several\nnoticeable earthquakes shook East Africa during 2007 with epicenters from the\nDRC down to Tanzania. As the earthquakes gained some international press\nattention, several international NGOs sprang into action to raise money for\nearthquake-hit areas. One particular NGO fundraised hundreds of millions of\nKenya Shillings for blankets for affected people whose homes were damaged.\nHowever, did blankets also fly off the shelves at then dominant retailer\nNakumatt? No. Most of the earthquakes hit during the hottest months of that\nyear thus negating the need for blankets and only very minimal structural\ndamage occurred in some isolated areas so people did not become homeless in\nneed of blankets. Donor funds can distort regular market supply and demand\nforces whereby the users of funds hold different need intentions than the\nprovider, or source, of funds intends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a\nresident of an area experiencing mild earthquakes, what type of spending would\nyou desire from the donor fundraising? Perhaps window ladders so families can\nescape from first and second floors if a staircase collapses, maybe a generator\nand powerful torches in case electricity gets knocked out, and most importantly\nmaybe capacity building for better information sharing by government agencies\nfollowing natural disasters to mitigate misinformation. Inasmuch, much\ncriticism was levied at the specific NGO for mismatching bottom-up needs from\ntop-down perceptions forced down to beneficiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While\ngiving to charity flourishes as one of the magnificent characteristics of\nhumanity, providing top-down funding for societal misfortunes and injustices\ncreates a power imbalance between provider and recipient. Power disparities\nresult in a mismatch between source perceptions and use intentions in the donor\nand NGO or Community Service Organization (CSO) sector\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/society\/Align-donor-funding-to-work-for-Africa\/3405664-5296214-9h8astz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Bellows Several noticeable earthquakes shook East Africa during 2007 with epicenters from the DRC down to Tanzania. As the earthquakes gained some international press attention, several international NGOs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}