RedColaborar Community Management

Organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean are propelling community-led approaches to sustainable agriculture enterprise development and job skills peacebuilding and other key development issues.

Through a cooperative agreement MAKAIA will further advance this work by working with IAF grantees across the region to build a collaborative virtual community of practice RedColaborar.

Grantee partners will use the learning platform to generate and share knowledge resources and best practices to strengthen their organizational capacity and have an even greater impact on the communities they serve.

This initiative is part of the IAF?s broader efforts to promote community-led solutions to challenges and unlock private public and community resources for grassroots development.

Amendment FY23:This amendment adds and reprograms funds for MAKAIA to continue developing and supporting the RedColaborar platform. MAKAIA will continue to play a lead role in establishing and strengthening communities of practice within the platform.

Specifically, MAKAIA will increase the accessibility of the platform for Portuguese and Haitian Creole speakers and add non-Spanish language support, update and grow the RedColaborar community through a second phase of co-creation workshops, and manage grantee databases. MAKAIA is mobilizing an additional $191,900 in counterpart resources to the cooperative agreement.