The Connective Paths Foundation (CPF) is a multi-donor resource and grant facility that aims to facilitate the use of international development assistance for community-led change that increases aid effectiveness, is rooted in listening and learning, and shifts the power and decision-making to the communities in the Global South.

CPF aims to partner with NGOs and CBOs that are women-led and women’s rights organisations (WROs) in an equitable and ethical manner, and provide funding and technical assistance in order to:

Strengthen Institutional Capacities

Support Community-led Solutions

Focused on women’s nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) in the global south[1] on 5 skill areas:

1. Project management, financial management and strengthening systems, structures and strategies for organisation effectiveness (i.e., organisation development)

2. Resource mobilisation and fundraising

3. Gender analysis, mainstreaming and inclusion strategy development

4. Using and generating research and data in order to design evidence-based projects for social norm change

5. Advocacy, local governance and community mobilising/organising

[1] Also known as developing countries or low- and middle-income countries.

address the most important development priorities identified by and with the NGOs, CBOs and communities in the global south in the following 5 issue areas:

1. Women's health, rights and empowerment

2. Community well-being and poverty alleviation

3. Violence-free households and communities

4. Healthy and participatory democracy

5. Community philanthropy and volunteerism