Some reservations about development assistance are necessary however. The bulk of the work in cooperating with developing countries is done by the various development agencies that the industrial countries have set up. In addition, donor countries channel a substantial amount of their aid through NGO s to developing countries. what is left over differs according to the way that donor tries countries have chosen to manage their development assistance. Therefore, the activities of development cooperation sections of embassies are in no way the same. It can be said, however, that aid sections of embassies have a supporting function.