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A study has found that the vast majority of funds meant for development in Africa are still being channelled via donor organisations in the West. The report by the University of Cambridge and Clearview Research for the Vodaphone Foundation says a 'colonial aid model' means money is largely directed to the local offices of international organisations, rather than to civil society groups run by Africans.

Researchers say this leaves local organisations unable to build long-term strategies and projects because they are usually funded per project and don't have autonomy over their finances.

One person who pushed for this report is Kennedy Odede, founder and CEO of the organisation Shining Hope For Communities, which runs a football club in the overcrowded Kabira settlement in Nairobi, Kenya where he grew up.

"I faced a lot of discrimination raising money as someone from Africa. I realised it's high time for us to speak out because for many years we've been ignored... we have to work with local leaders in those communities, civil societies who know the problems in their communities, because right now that money goes back to the north."

(Photo: A box of aid being shipped to Africa. Credit: Getty Images)

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