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This graphic, based on 2014 data from Development Initiatives, published in 2016, shows where humanitarian aid funding comes from and where it goes directly. Local charities and NGOs in affected countries get only 0.2 percent of direct grants from donors. In reality they handle a bigger percentage of the overall spending, but only as sub-contractors of the UN and international NGOs. The reforming Grand Bargain initiative, launched in 2016, aims to have 25 percent of spending in the hands of local agencies, but not necessarily directly.