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Strategic Alliances

Under the leadership of Makonen Getu, Strategic Alliances liaise with development organizations that focus on providing services in poor communities that complement the work of microfinance. Strategic Alliances division seeks alliances that focus on a single sector for optimal impact.  Some of the essential sectors include housing, education, and leadership development for children, clean water, access to basic medicines and drugs, and access to a caring Christian community.  Strategic Alliances works closely with leadership at Opportunity banks to ensure that the models developed are desirable, functional, and sustainable in a commercial context.

 

Pilot Projects - In partnership with Compassion International, Opportunity International has initiated pilot projects to be implemented by Compassion and Opportunity partners in Uganda and the Philippines.

 

The Earth Institute in Malawi and Ghana has agreed to participate in the development of the Millennium Village Projects (MVP), which is a new approach from Columbia University to lift villages in developing nations out of poverty using a bottom-up approach.

 

Orphans or Vulnerable Children Project (OVC) – The USAID-funded OVC Project works to improve the ability of OVCs and their caretakers to obtain secure livelihoods and address basic shelter needs.  In Zambia, Opportunity International has partnered with Christian Enterprise Trust of Zambia (CETZAM). They are currently working to manage this project in Mozambique, Zambia and Uganda.