A Mexico-based development practitioner noted the effect of aid cuts on employment for local experts: "It’s not just the flow of funds that is reduced and a greater number of competitors. I can see the great disadvantages for organisations and people who are not fluent in English now more than ever before, or whose practices and culture are further from certain technical skills demanded by the North’s vision of what ‘professionalism’ means. Those who lost their jobs and who often mediated between all this and small community organisations are now in no position to support local movements, or are leaving the sector entirely."