This right from the BBC:

“Giving aid directly to governments in developing countries is as effective as funding specific projects and no more prone to corruption, a study says.

The report by the Paris-based organisation of industrialised nations (OECD) shows that aid funds are being increasingly channelled this way.

The OECD says this helps recipient governments plan anti-poverty schemes.

The report is the first major review by Western countries of how billions of dollars of development aid are spent.”