But for many, funding continues to be a big challenge.
In these "donor orphan" countries, many funding institutions can't function.
It is true that councils will be able to make decisions about the use of many funding streams that were previously ring-fenced.
Families who signed up on six- or 12-month tenancies paid £310 a week for a three-bedroom home, with many funding the rent through housing benefit.
In Africa, where the crises in the Central African Republic and South Sudan do not often make international headlines, many funding appeals are less than 15% full.
Many funding evaluation reports and academic studies show how ineffective the tech-led approach can be, and how it can reinforce existing divides.
The end goal for MeyGen is to install 269 turbines, enough to provide 50% of Scotland's electricity needs, but that goal is many funding rounds away.
"We do benefit from the fact that once we say we're going to do it, people believe we can do it, because we have the resources," said Page. "Google helps in that way: there aren't many funding mechanisms like that".
According to Dr Georg Krawietz, director of DAAD, there are about 20 scholarships available for UK students to study in Germany each year, and there are also many funding schemes available from research institutions such as the Max Planck Society.
I believe that untrained volunteers can do more harm than good to museum objects, and with no museum staff and loss of museum accreditation, volunteers would not be able to access many funding and training courses.
Mathematical modeling has recently become a much-lauded enterprise, and many funding agencies seek to prioritize this endeavor.
