in Ghana and Peru Chris Allan November 2010 Supporting Movements with Grantmaking Chris Allan November 2010 ID: 660404
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The Case of the Environmental Justice Movement in Ghana and Peru
Chris Allan November 2010
Supporting Movements
with
Grantmaking
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Effects of Growthin Industrial Mining
Displacement of people, destruction of productive farm land
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Effects of Growthin Industrial Mining
Displacement of people, destruction of productive farm land
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Increased pollutionSlide5
Effects of Growthin Industrial Mining
Displacement of people, destruction of productive farm land
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Increased pollution
Social disruptionSlide6
Elements of ResistanceHost communities pay the price - but don’t reap the benefits
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Elements of ResistanceHost communities pay the price - but don’t reap the benefits
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Government and Industry
allied against communitiesSlide8
Elements of ResistanceHost communities pay the price - but don’t reap the benefits
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Indifference or hostility
of the general public to the movement
Government and Industry
allied against communitiesSlide9
Elements of ResistanceDivisions within host communities
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Elements of ResistanceDivisions within host communities
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Increased violence –
surveillance of activists,
beatings,
murdersSlide11
Elements of ResistanceDivisions within host communities
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Criminalization of resistance
Increased violence –
surveillance of activists
beatings
murdersSlide12
How can funders support movements – lessons from Peru and GhanaChris Allan November 2010Slide13
How can funders support movements – lessons from Peru and Ghana
Small grants are useful
for
defensive
struggles
Complementary Funding
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How can funders support movements – lessons from Peru and Ghana
Small grants are useful
for
defensive
struggles
Large
grants are better
for
offensive
strategies
Complementary Funding
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Fund all levels
Or know who IsSlide16
Fund all strategies (or know who is)
Community organizingOrganization building
Networking
Technical review
Advocacy
Legal action
Media
Other
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See yourself as part of the movement
Strategize with activists
Respect movement values
participation
trust
openness
Live with messiness
Build bridges to other movements
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Fund political opportunities - a challenge for funder procedures
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Grant Monitoring – What Didn’t Work
Diversity of movement organizations and the Big PictureProducers of monitoring information were not consumers
Asked everything we wanted to know
Varying skills across the movement make information uneven
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Grant Monitoring –What Works BetterThink instead of what successful movements do – a digestible framework
Ask what we need to know
Prescriptive role of
monitoring
Does social change occur logically?
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Have a Conceptual FrameworkBuild movement infrastructure and mobilize resources
Reframe the debate
Political Opportunities
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Chris Allan
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