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CAMFED IMPACT REPORT
CHAPTER FOUR
Governance
Camfed’s governance is built from the perspective of
the child Camfed serves. Its financial and programmatic
processes and systems are designed to surround each
child with a network of support that protects her safety
and ensures that she receives every penny’s worth of
support to which she is entitled. Financial security and
child protection are linked: robust checks-and-balances,
transparency and accountability at every level, and regular
auditing ensure that no single individual has power over
vulnerable girls and young women, and that funds are
fully trackable to their intended target.
Camfed’s power sharing partnership with local communities
is accompanied by full accountability at every level of
operations. Intensive community engagement, supported
by strong national offices and international teams, is the best
guarantee of child protection, financial accountability and
program sustainability.
The importance of each individual underpins each step of
Camfed’s philosophy. Thus Camfed tracks the progress of
every individual girl with precision, rather than adopting
a common development practice of supporting largely
anonymous numbers of beneficiaries; likewise, all donations
to Camfed are tracked against individual recipients on
Camfed’s centralized program database, which is linked into
its financial accounting system.
Stringent monitoring and evaluation of each program
ensures that Camfed’s interventions remain responsive and
effective. Its community driven methods of data collection,
supported by international teams, provide meticulous
oversight of investments and impact, all of which are
regularly incorporated into Camfed’s strategic decision
making, ongoing program development and reporting.
In 2010, with the support of the Skoll Foundation and in
partnership with the global law firm Linklaters, Camfed
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