This is often based on misperceptions -for example one DAC donor in Niger stated that non-DAC donors never made the effort to go to joint donor meetings on development and aid, whereas a non-DAC donor complained that they were not invited to events or kept in the loop about different donor initiatives. There is at times a feeling in donor meetings or fora that whoever mobilises the most funds and has the largest projects, de facto, are a more important actor with a larger say in matters, regardless of how they are spending their budgets, whether their programming is high quality with great impact, or not. Some very large multilaterals also seem to feel that they have everything 'under control' and that they don't need to form partnerships.