There are a number of reasons why multilateral organizations are funded.
We hear from this government regularly about the importance of leveraging money. We've made these huge commitments on climate finance, contributing towards $100 billion with donor countries by 2020. To reach those commitments, we need to leverage money through the private sector and through other ways.
Another big issue is the administrative logistics part of it. For one thing, it's much quicker for the government to disburse money through multilateral development banks. It can say, “okay, this money is out the door now”, versus having to do a bit of the homework about accountability that would come from going through CSOs.
We haven't heard anything about CSOs being less accountable. In fact, because some of us rely on government funding, there are very high transparency and accountability standards. I think in many ways it's more transparent than having money go through multilaterals, where we don't exactly know which countries and communities.... Is it the poorest and most vulnerable? What exactly is it going to, in which portions, and how is it split up? We don't have all of that information.
I think those are the main barriers there.