ORGANIZATIONAL Overview

Maliasili Initiatives is a non-profit organization that supports the growth, development and performance of leading

civil society organizations working to advance sustainable natural resource management practices in Africa.

Investing in people for nature.

We partner with leading organizations to provide tailored organizational development services, targeted bridge financing, and technical expertise to strengthen and build leaders to advance sustainable natural resource

management outcomes at landscape, national and global scales.

Strengthening leaders.

In rural Africa the well-being of people and ecosystems is closely interconnected. Successful rights-based management models are

fundamental to improving peoples’ livelihoods while safeguarding ecosystems through the sustainable use of natural resources.

Improving livelihoods,conserving ecosystems.

Local civil society organization(CSOs) are essential to achieving these outcomes. They understand the key issues facing the communities they

work with and are committed to seeking long-lasting solutions.

Driving Change.

Leading African CSOs and social entrepreneurs often face challenges that inhibit the scope and scale of their impact, and opportunities for transformational

change that benefit local people and ecosystems is foregone.

Confronting organizational obstacles.

Our partners’ common needs include:

Identifying needs.

Stronger and better articulated strategy

Incisive business planning and performance monitoring

Effective governance and management structures/systems

Improved finances

Skills and career development opportunities

Enhanced communications

Horizon-broadening and networking opportunities

Cultures of open learning

There is an existing organizational development marketplace in Africa, but the needs of these

leading CSOs and social entrepreneurs are not being adequately catered to.

This is because often the services are generic, one-off and time limited, and they lack a deep

understanding of the context, technical issues and goals that are at the heart of organizations.

We want to fill this gap.

Overcoming Challenges.

We approach organizational development in a holistic way, working with our partners to jointly identify and understand what their needs are.

Together we design an integrated program of organizational development and technical support. Ultimately, we aim to help our partners achieve long-term and sustainable internal growth that will lead to enhanced and scaled up external impacts.

Our approach

Our services and their impact

Stronger and more effective natural resource management civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs

Local livelihoods improved & nature conserved through:• Strong local

resource rights and tenure

• Democratic & devolved governance

• Incentive-based stewardship

Organizational Development

TechnicalExpertise

Services Outcomes Impact

Provide long-term and holistic organizational development support to our partners through integrating our organizational development service offerings with our established technical expertise in the natural resource field.

Contribute to the advancement of policy analysis, program design and innovation in African natural resource management through select technical assignments, initiatives and research.

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What We Do

We seek out outstanding and innovative civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs with high potential for scaling up their reach and impact. We evaluate their track record and need, the nature of the opportunity, and the value we can add.

How we work

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We select

exceptional local

partners for whom

we can add value

and who share our

values

We collaboratively

design a customized

organizational

development

support process

with each partner

We support

the internal

development of each

partner through this

change process

As part of the

change process we

support the external

delivery of improved

outcomes for

communities & their

ecosystems

We evaluate our

performance

and that of our

partners, for

continuing learning

& improvement of

each change process

Since we began operations in 2011, we have helped our partners improve the conservation management of 142,323 hectares of land in East Africa; facilitate enterprises such as tourism, sustainable forestry and carbon offsetting that have generated $169,287 in revenue for rural communities; and have leveraged $965,000 in third-party funding to support our partners’ work.

Increasing impact.

Partner Snapshot

Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) helped two indigenous minority groups in northern Tanzania obtain a customary land title to approximately 61,000 hectares of land, enabling the Datoga and Hadzabe to permanently own and conserve these areas and protect its boundaries from encroachment. It is this kind of work that makes UCRT the leading grassroots organization working on land and resource rights and community-based management across much of northern Tanzania. We are helping them strengthen their organizational management and performance, addressing a wide range of needs we’ve jointly identified. This includes, strategic planning, work planning and performance monitoring; fundraising assistance; communications support and documentation; building collaborations to scale up UCRT’s work across northern Tanzania’s savannah landscapes; as well as other technical programmatic support.

Carbon Tanzania is helping some of Tanzania’s last remaining hunter-gatherers get paid to maintain their land and its resources as they always have for the last 40,000 years – sustainably. Carbon Tanzania is an early-stage social enterprise that has developed one of Tanzania’s first certified forest carbon projects (REDD) in partnership with the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley. We are assisting Carbon Tanzania become the leading operator linking community land and resource rights, forest conservation and carbon markets by helping them to develop their business plan, build partnerships across their value chain, and enhance their communications and branding approach.

Partner Snapshot

In the Amboseli ecosystem the same Maasai warriors who used to hunt and kill lions are now protecting them, and populations in this area appear to be on the rise. Over the last five years Lion Guardians has worked in this ecosystem with Maasai Group Ranches, implementing a uniquely successful community-based model for resolving human-lion conflict and fostering co-existence between people and wildlife. We are working with them to develop and implement a new five year strategic plan for scaling up the organization to work at multiple sites covering much of Kenyan and Tanzanian Maasailand, through new partnerships and by training other groups to use their model.

Partner Snapshot

During 2013-2017 Maliasili Initiatives aims to become a leader in our field in delivering organizational development and change management support

to outstanding or high potential civil society organizations and social entrepreneurs working on natural resource management issues in Africa.

Building Leaders.

We will work through a carefully built, expanding and diverse portfolio of leading grassroots and national civil society organizations to build their

capacity, accelerate their impacts, and strengthen their performance.

We will build a proven track record, as demonstrated bythe organizational growth and performance

of our partners.

Facilitating long-termchange & Impact

We strive to achieve a wide range of documented and sustainable impacts on landscape-scale conservation, strengthening community land and resource

rights, improved natural resource governance, and enhanced livelihoods from our partners’ activities.

Creating sustainablelivelihoods & ecosystems

The Maliasili TeamOur board is small but active bringing in expertise from sustainable finance and business development, philanthropic investing, conservation strategy, and non-profit and business management fields.

Our staff currently consists of three technical and management experts with combined experience of over 35 years working on natural resource and development issues primarily in East Africa, with deep experience in organizational strategy, communications, project planning, and policy processes.

Staff and most board members have many years of working closely together pre-dating the formation of Maliasili Initiatives. Both staff and board have strong personal commitments to sustainable development, social justice and natural resource management issues in Africa, and to developing Maliasili Initiatives as a leading vehicle to address these issues.

Fred Nelson - Executive Director

Kipp Baratoff - President of the board

Andrew Williams - Senior Program Manager

Scott O’Connell - Treasurer of the board

Jessie Davie - Communications Manager

Elizabeth Singleton - Member of board

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