This evaluation covers five years of collaboration between Samdhana Institute and the Climate and Land Use on Samdhana’s administration of a small grants program that involved substantial regranting of CLUA funds. CLUA’s support for a Samdhana-administered ‘small grants program’ went far beyond merely the funding of a low-overhead re-granting effort. Samdhana Institute successfully implemented the small grants program as a ‘total support package’ that included modest pots of money for field projects, but also support for mentoring, training, and technical assistance to NGO and local government partners; networking support and dissemination of information between grantee partners; as well as monitoring and strategic evaluation of these small grants.
