Consequently, care must be taken to channel assistance through new and established conduits to indigenous organisations and companies to ensure the best possible results.
Meanwhile the new features in the Cancún Agreements are largely institutional rather than substantive: a Green Climate Fund to channel assistance to poor countries, new rules on measuring and supporting rainforest protection, new processes of monitoring emissions, a committee to promote technology transfer, and another on adaptation.
The rapid response missions channel assistance to many remote areas otherwise cut from humanitarian relief.
What's most instructive, and innovative, about Camfed, however, is not how it channels assistance to vulnerable students in remote areas, but how it catalyzes broader changes, eliciting leadership from more than 90,000 people in thousands of villages — including parents, teachers, local leaders and, especially, the women in its alumni network, known as Cama.
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She said that the United States would protect gay victims of persecution and that it would channel foreign assistance in ways that promote equal rights for gay people.
Britain's decision to channel development assistance through a government programme, barely three months after withholding £21m in aid to Rwanda due to a breach of partnership principles, is being closely scrutinised.
The United States has been working with other countries on how to channel economic assistance to the Palestinians through international relief organizations, and not directly to the Palestinian Authority, which the Bush administration sees as corrupt.
The challenges facing Somali youth, although arguably more extreme, represent a microcosm of the wider African generational narrative and this leads international development agencies to a crossroads in terms of where best to channel future assistance.
At a meeting with donors last week, Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwe's Finance Minister, attempted to persuade them that "as we go forward and as we successfully build trust among ourselves, we can in future channel development assistance through the [budget] so that we are able to plan more effectively and more efficiently".
The American hope is that the opposition, in conjunction with local councils that are being formed in Syria, could help govern areas that have been wrested from Mr. Assad's control, provide public services like law enforcement and utilities, and perhaps even channel humanitarian assistance.
