SAN FRANCISCO — When Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, listens to representatives from indigenous peoples organizations in meetings surrounding the Global Climate Action Summit, he is left with a question: Who is funding them?
“What you often hear [from donors] is, we don’t have a mechanism to reach people on the ground, or we’re not comfortable giving money to an intermediary,” he said.
There are increasing numbers of vehicles for funding local solutions, such as “networks of regional organizations that are primed for impact,” Walker said — and he hopes to lead by example.