Strategies for Flexible Grantmaking in the Amazon
Far from markets and traditional institutions, Amazonian people and organizations are often under developed and under resourced. Large investors, grantmakers and governments often struggle to help due to a perceived lack of proper infrastructure, transparency, and accountability. Forest based populations, for example, seldom have years of audited financial statements on file, a core requirement for many funders. What has been done to make grantmaking more flexible, accessible, and timely for activists and communities in the Amazon and beyond? What more can be done? And, why? Carolina Munis has been co-creating experimental grant programs since 2014 with and for groups working in fields as varied as climate change, women’s rights, and democracy. For this session, she invites you to a conversation about inventing, remixing, and hacking the ways that resources flow through changemakers. Join the conversation with Carolina Munis, Brazil Programme Officer at the Oak Foundation.
Recorded April 18, 2022
References:
Creative philanthropy as a means for offering stability, blessing, and hope
World Bank Social Development Anchor CDD Small Grants Program (circa 2002)
Participedia | Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
International Conservation Funding in the Amazon: An Updated Analysis
