What we do · 02
Working with local actors
You have made commitments, and you take them seriously.
Rebalancing your partnerships if you are an international NGO. Funding local and Indigenous organizations directly if you are a funder or a foundation. The intent is already there. What makes the difference is procedure: due diligence a community organization can meet, safeguards scaled to them, monitoring that informs without draining, and an honest split of risk and indirect costs. This is engineering work, and it can be done.
What we do
- Partnership diagnostics: where power actually sits in the relationship (program decisions, budget, trade-offs, accountability, visibility).
- Methodological frameworks for mutual capacity strengthening, built as reciprocity.
- Design of direct funding mechanisms, from eligibility criteria to operations manual.
- Proportionate due diligence and safeguards for community organizations.
- Accountability and learning frameworks that respect data sovereignty.
- Evaluation of all of the above.
What we bring
We have worked at both ends of that chain. We wrote and applied the requirements on the funder side. We supported Indigenous and community organizations on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including the four hundred civil society organizations brought together in the REDD+ process.
That is what lets us design procedures both sides sign without reservation.
We are always paid in fees. Never a percentage of the funds mobilized. A direct funding mechanism should be designed to hold, not to grow.
“CAP!'s advisement of our network of 400 organizations has allowed us to be anchored at a national level, to develop a common vision and to benefit from an excellent communications system. We have become more effective, all together.”