GivingWorks - Who We Serve: International Development Organizations

WHO WE SERVE

GivingWorks helps international development organizations navigate complex social and economic problems and implement powerful solutions.

International development organizations face the world’s toughest problems. The causes of these problems are complex and interrelated, and finding effective solutions requires the cooperation of disparate stakeholders. GivingWorks works with development organizations to build support and identify holistic strategies that will create lasting, meaningful change. Overcoming the barriers to development not only requires political will and appropriate policies at the "top," but also innovation from the "bottom." While much of our work with large international development clients is in the realm of large-scale policies, our work with the Development Marketplace also showed how the potential of citizen-led innovations can be effectively applied on a global scale.

We work with clients to streamline processes, measure results, and account for successes and failures. We help them communicate with, and learn from, key stakeholder groups. And we help them devise common language and metrics — both internally and with peers — to ensure that their work effectively pursues a common goal.

Find out below how we’ve helped the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency create more effective systems for improving the lives of the world's poor. Also see What We Do to find out how we can help your organization turn insight to impact.

Highlight: Helping MIGA Coordinate with its Partners More Effectively
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is an agency of the World Bank that helps developing countries attract private investment capital through loan guarantees and marketing programs. Because political risk is often a major obstacle to investing in developing countries, MIGA has a critical role in facilitating private investment that will help to alleviate poverty. Since its founding in 1991, MIGA had a track record of success in helping investors and governments avoid and settle disputes, but had operated in a largely reactive mode, taking risks opportunistically. As the rest of the World Bank Group migrated to results-based strategies, MIGA management recognized that its development impact could be improved if it chose proactive strategies to support targeted sectors in each developing-country client.

GivingWorks helped to connect MIGA with the Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy process by facilitating workshops bringing together World Bank, IFC, and MIGA personnel for specific countries. By helping to harmonize the three groups’ private sector development plans and determining optimal roles for each, GivingWorks was able to help the Bank Group understand its full impact on private sector development and identify gaps and overlaps across the agencies’ activities. In some cases, totally new opportunities were created by bringing together the country experts and finance and insurance providers to match needs with appropriate tools.