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Our Approach

Our Bottom-Up Partnership Model

PTP Partnership Structure

How We Connect Communities and Donors

DONORSFunding PartnersFundingReportsPEOPLE TO PEOPLE (PTP)Intermediary OrganizationSupervision • Coordination • Capacity BuildingGrassrootsGroupsEmergencyResponseRoomsYouthGroupsWomen-ledOrganizationsLocalCBOs/NGOsCOMMUNITIES & BENEFICIARIESNeeds Assessment • Participation • FeedbackBottom-up Priority Setting

Downward Flow

Resources, funding, training, and support flow from donors through PTP to local initiatives and communities.

Upward Flow

Reports, feedback, impact data, and community needs flow from grassroots initiatives back to PTP and donors.

Direct Implementation

Local initiatives implement programs directly with communities based on bottom-up needs assessments and participatory planning.

Partnership Model Overview

The People to People (PTP) partnership model represents a transformative approach to development cooperation in Sudan. Unlike traditional top-down funding mechanisms, this structure empowers local communities to identify their own needs and priorities while maintaining robust accountability and coordination through PTP as an intermediary organization.

PTP serves as the crucial bridge between international donors and grassroots initiatives, ensuring that funding reaches the most vulnerable communities while maintaining donor compliance standards. The organization provides essential capacity building, monitoring, and coordination services that enable local groups to effectively implement their programs. This bottom-up approach ensures that interventions are culturally appropriate, conflict-sensitive, and truly responsive to community needs.

🎯 Bottom-Up Approach

Communities conduct their own needs assessments and design interventions that respond to local priorities, ensuring relevance and ownership.

🔄 Flexible Funding

Donors provide unrestricted funding through PTP, allowing local initiatives to adapt resources to emerging needs and opportunities.

📊 Unified Reporting

PTP consolidates reports from multiple local initiatives, presenting donors with comprehensive impact data while reducing reporting burden on grassroots groups.

🤝 Direct Engagement

Evaluation meetings bring together donors, PTP, local initiatives, and beneficiaries, fostering direct dialogue and mutual learning.

💪 Capacity Building

PTP provides continuous training and mentoring to local groups, strengthening their organizational capacity for long-term sustainability.

🌟 Local Ownership

Empowers Sudanese organizations, particularly youth and women-led groups, to lead their own development processes with dignity and autonomy.