Working with Official Development Assistance Agencies
By A. Scott DuPree and David Winder with Cristina Parnetti, Chandni Prasad and Shari Turitz | August 2000 | View Full Text | Email Link

Abstract

This is a chapter from the Foundation Building Sourcebook: A Practitioners Guide Based on Experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

This chapter provides Examples of ways in which foundations have worked with official development assistance agencies and governments.

Examples
- A Request for Project Support: Foundation for Community Development (Mozambique)
- A Sectoral and Geographic Partnership: Esquel Ecuador Foundation
- Government-to-Government Agreement to Create an Endowment: Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc. (Philippines)

Summary Points
- The highest levels of an agency must be convinced in principle of the benefits to be gained from working with local foundations.
- Factoring in the costs of responding effectively to a government partner can save time and energy.
- The support of the national government or national government agencies may be necessary.
- A smaller effort to begin with can build the case for a larger, multiyear program.
- An effort to endow a foundation through a mechanism, such as a debt swap, may go beyond an agency effort to a broader government-to-government agreement.

Funding for the Sourcebook was provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, with additional support from Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Avina, Inc., the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute.

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