Partnerships for Development Forum

DELIVERING IMPACT AS A PRIVATE FUNDER

David Bonbright, Keystone's Chief Executive, attended this year's 'Partnerships for Development' Forum at Wilton Park and presented a panel, next to Gerard Salole of the European Foundations Centre and Tina Wallace of the International Gender Studies Centre at Oxford.

The panel entitled: 'Delivering Impact as a Private Funder' took place on April 17th at 9am and addressed the following questions:

- What are the challenges of delivering impact as a private funder?

- How can funders best address issues such as accountability, transparency, aid effectiveness, and building capacity in-country?

- How can funders best access knowledge to inform their funding
decisions and operations?

David presented Keystone's Consituency Voice approach to measuring impact and learning how to improve the effectiveness of social investments through constituency feedback as an alternative to mechanistic or purist approaches currently offered to and used by many private funders. He made the case for impact assessment viewed as a collaborative learning exercise that focuses to improving rather than proving. You can read David's talking points here.

For more information visit the Wilton Park website.