Global Philanthropy Forum

To maximize the efficacy of their interventions, strategic philanthropists and aid agencies increasingly engage the communities they seek to serve in assessing needs, defining objectives, designing solutions, gathering relevant data and ascertaining results. So too should individual governments. As an essential (but often overlooked) first step, donors must ask the right combination of social actors what issues they want to tackle and how they define success. In this way, the desired social, cultural, political and economic changes can be identified, and interventions designed accordingly. Panelists will explore the practical elements of philanthropic approaches that start with local ownership, and also identify ways in which governments can and should do the same.Mathias Craig, Founder, blueEnergyKate Gross, CEO, Tony Blair Africa Governance InitiativeDominic Muren, Founder and Principal, The HumblefactoryKatherina Rosqueta, Executive Director, Center for High Impact Philanthropy,University of Pennsylvania