Comment 16 on 1412 - a rich-poor partnership

Approach #3

Identify nonprofits/NGOs currently engaged on projects within your partner area. Find ways to support their work.

find others to work with you on this (since initially this could involve contacting a large number of different organisations)

if you are more interested in focusing on one particular area of development (e.g. education rather than agriculture or water supply) pass on any information that might be of greater interest to others. (Each WWC connection area will need to develop its own local structures, but initially at least information of this kind might be passed to the WWC area’s Acting Correspondent)

where the information is about areas of development of particular concern to you, try to contact the agency to find out in greater detail what work is being done and in what way(s) might you be able to offer any help.

Usually, in practice, the process involved in Approach #3 might be rather different from that involved in Approach #1 (Supporting agencies you already support), but in the case of this Area #1412 simulated exercise, the country-by-country non-profits list was used as if its contents listed a WCP participant's own favourite agencies, the ones that the participant would usually choose to support.

Check link1 to see the results for this Approach. By definition, the results for Approach #3 will be exactly the same

So, as far as microfinance is concerned, not very promising.