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PROJECT DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
The Asia Foundation designs and manages numerous complex, multi-million dollar, multi-year projects - as well as a range of important smaller initiatives - throughout Asia. Foundation staff are often directly involved in project implementation. Projects may also involve managing a portfolio of grants to local partner organizations. The Foundation is a strategic and engaged grantmaker. Foundation staff are well positioned to identify local partners with the necessary capacity and commitment to make valuable contributions to a particular project. Staff provide hands-on support to partner organizations as they conceptualize, carry out, and report on project activities. The Foundation has well-established financial management, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting systems and procedures in place in each of its country offices, which receive expert backstopping from the Foundation’s U.S. headquarters.
Examples:
- In 2005, the Foundation received a grant from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) for a four-year project to build the capacity of Indonesian civil society organizations to conduct civic and voter education, monitor local elections, and engage citizens in the local-level legislative process.
- Under the auspices of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Foundation provided comprehensive planning, operational, and logistical support to the Afghan government and the United Nations for the implementation of the Constitutional Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in 2003. The Foundation also managed the deployment of technical advisors for the development of the draft constitution and subsequent public consultation processes.
- With funding from the United Kingdom’s Global Conflict Prevention Pool, the Foundation is working with local organizations to build the capacity for an early conflict warning and response system in the multi-ethnic Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. The project collects information to help identify and analyze sources of conflict, and to mobilize civil society, local government, police and security forces, and international actors to ameliorate tensions and prevent the outbreak of violence.
