Dear Colleagues, The issue with access to international donors for indigenous NGOs is not really related to their having information about the existence of such donors, but with their ability to deal with the donors in a manner that is acceptable to the donor. Basically, they need to speak the language of the donor, and often local NGOs are not sophisticated in that aspect; there are cultural obstacles to begin with. Many donors, as some have discussed here, required a great deal of work for a small amount of funding, many would not ever deal with indigenous NGOs, often a great deal of cost sharing is required which is prohibitively high for local NGOs... It is no wonder many large NGOs hire professional proposal writers - donors require that level of detail and this requirement can rarely be met by small indigenous NGOs.
A database sounds like a great idea, and some similar attempts of such networks have been made before. I just wonder, however, what would be the use of such site. Donors do not usually go out looking for clients... Regards, Zoya ******************************************** Zoya Naskova [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************** ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>