It seems the Foundation has realized that the lack of management of the aid money has created obstacles for rendering services to the communities. Candidly speaking, there must be lot of corruption in managing this aid money, which is why now the Foundation is putting in more money so that the existing money is managed well.
This is not the first time that such a funding idea has been generated. In fact, agencies like the Transparency International have always been providing financial support to organizations for reducing corruption worldwide. Even the World Bank, whose loans and grants are known to have increased corruption worldwide, also recently announced an open competition for NGOs to submit ideas for anti-corruption projects.
It is not clear what process and procedures are in place with these agencies to ensure that the money given out does fall into the same domain. But the fearful question that looms around is: Will not more money lead to more corruption? Unless close monitoring is carried out with prior intensive capacity building of implementing organizations, it is difficult to answer the question negatively. NGOs need tremendous skills, not just resources to tackle a widespread problem like corruption in aid. But at the same NGOs also need to be sustainable enough so that they do not fall victims to the issue they are addressing.
