Shock: Are bad-weather-prevention funds in the Maldives being squandered on corrupt, ad hoc programs where people get paid for not actually doing anything?

Maldives Green Fund to merge “scattered” climate finance

Transparency Maldives called for “stronger anti-corruption safeguards in climate finance”...“There are no specific goals, which has resulted in project-based, ad
hoc and climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives.”...“One person is in charge of massive [amounts] of funds. There is a lack of human resources within the Environment Ministry. Only a couple of people have dominated [climate change projects] since the 1990’s,” claimed the source.

Some people within the ministry working on foreign aid projects write themselves in as project staff as well to in order supplement their “really low” monthly government salaries of MVR 6000 to MVR 8000 (US$ 389 to US$ 519), alleged the source.

“The same people work on each project, they don’t have new people,” the source claimed.