Learning from each other

Yousry Moustafa
1 September 2006
Alliance magazine

The four emerging human rights funds involved in the Ford Foundation’s International Initiative to Strengthen Philanthropy (IISP)[1] – the Arab, Brazil and Russian funds, and the newly founded Kenya Human Rights and Social Justice Fund – met in London in April. It was the representatives of the new funds who pressed for the meeting, feeling that they needed a specific learning space within IISP to discuss the aspirations and challenges that their newly fledged initiatives have in common. Why was this separate meeting necessary and what was discussed?

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