MK allocates more than 97 percent of its budget to projects, it provides transparent and data-driven information to donors and project participants. It also means that a relevant part of the funding originally allocated to projects was spent for the intermediary role of an INGO. NEAR is a movement ‘of Global South civil society organisations reinventing aid through innovative ideas, knowledge sharing, and influencing’. NEAR acts in the humanitarian space through bold ideas and practices, its members show their agency and embody local leadership in many of its nuances. She sits in the board of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA).