The founding team of KAPorg was inspired by the goal creating a platform that can support local organization development and facilitate stronger visibility, networking and communications for implementing partners and donors seeking to bring about the Grand Bargain commitment
KAPorg is designed to help organizations understand their needs for future development and serve as a networking platform where they can connect with other implementing partners and donors worldwide.
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Localization is a development approach that prioritizes the ownership, leadership, and control of development programs by local actors. Donors including USAID and the 18 donor countries and 16 aid organizations that signed the “Grand Bargain” seek to support development work in which an increased amount of aid is allocated to local and national responders. But as donors continue to struggle with truly achieving locally-led development, and local NGOs and actors continue to face practical, financial and administrative challenges learning of and securing international funding, we as the humanitarian and development community remain far from achieving this locally-led vision. It is at this key intersection that KAPorg comes in. KAPorg is designed by and for international humanitarian organizations to support them in achieving the vision of localization, working to balance power and resources by providing an online platform for partnership, growth and funding. KAPorg’s assessments and capacity building can empower local entities to build and improve on the organizational and institutional systems and processes needed to be sustainable, and to receive the international funding they need to be successful and expand their local impacts. At the donor level, KAPorg supports USAID and other global donors in shifting the balance of power toward local organizations, by offering a platform for partnership and capacity building.
Therefore, now more than ever, NGOs that serve as local implementing partners for internationally-funded programs play a central role in ensuring that essential services are delivered over the “final mile” to vulnerable crisis-affected populations. Overstretched local implementing partners are continually required to adapt their organizational postures, systems, policies, and procedures to align with partner or donor requirements. This often limits the ability of local actors to focus on strategic and organizational development that will improve their own sustainability beyond any single project.
This is why we created KAPorg as a tool to help organizations explore their needs to develop long-term local capacity that is more efficient and effective in delivering humanitarian assistance and more accountable to the populations served and the funds they manage.
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