Partnership

An outside view

In 2015-2016, Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – commissioned an external review of the work it had funded through Fauna & Flora. The findings of the review, presented in a 75-page report, were hugely positive and included some very clear statements about how Fauna & Flora works with partner organisations.

The report refers to Fauna & Flora as, “a genuine collaborator in these relationships, respecting their partners’ own goals even while pushing for progress, remaining in the background while their partners take credit for any gains, and recognising individual projects as components of longer-term relationships.”

It goes on to say, “Playing such a role effectively has required considerable skill, judgement and sometimes patience and fortitude in a variety of different contexts, where Fauna & Flora’s capacity to adapt its approach to local conditions has been critical,” it continued.

The report also states that, “few other NGOs can match Fauna & Flora in the quality of their work with local partners.”

Although we have long prided ourselves on our collaborative approach, this external validation by a team of expert evaluators was extremely gratifying – particularly given that their research included interviews with partners themselves.