A key issue is the multi-billion dollar funding base of various NGOs and groups presented or claiming to be representative of civil society within the developing world, and how the funding of Third World “civil society” by governments or government-funded quasi-autonomous government organisations within the Global North distorts the genuine voice of people and groups at the national level. A British think-tank reported that between 2009 and 2013, local and national NGOs received just 1.6 percent of the humanitarian aid provided by international donors, equivalent to just 0.2 percent of overall humanitarian funding during that period. The rest of the funding was directed through western-directed NGOs or their clones. Local NGOs in Africa are bought and sold with foreign money provided by the international NGOs who direct funding within Africa: The reality is that he who pays the piper, calls the tune. African commentators have referred to the many Western-funded and Western-controlled NGOs masquerading as “African civil society” on the continent as “coconut” NGOs, brown on the outside but white inside. It is noteworthy that even European heads of state have pushed back against precisely the sort of interference within their own countries complained of by African governments. The Hungarian prime minister, for example, has explained his concerns: “We’re not dealing with civil society members but paid political activists who are trying to help foreign interests here.”