Why Partner with Nurture and Protect Initiative
NPI offers partners and donors a distinctive combination: the reach and trust of a genuinely local organization, the focus of a child protection specialist, and the systems and accountability of a professional one.
Strength | What it means for a partner |
Local roots and acceptance | Access and trust in the communities we serve that outside actors cannot easily replicate — through language, culture and relationships with community and traditional leaders. |
A child protection focus | A partner whose reason for existing is protecting children, with the coherence and expertise that focus brings. |
Female-led and inclusive | Women leading governance and delivery in an organization serving women and girls — strengthening reach, credibility and access to female-headed households. |
Community-generated evidence | Programmes grounded in community-level evidence, beginning with our Banki assessment, rather than assumptions. |
Strong systems from the start | A full governance, safeguarding, financial and accountability framework that meets donor due-diligence when many local organizations cannot. |
Honest and accountable | A partner precise about what it has done and what it is building towards, that accounts openly for its work and welcomes scrutiny. |
Aligned to the localisation agenda | Exactly the kind of credible, community-rooted national partner that funders increasingly seek to support and empower. |
How we can work together
We welcome partnership in a range of forms:
- As a delivery partner or sub-grantee — delivering child protection, education, nutrition, WASH and community programming in the areas we serve.
- As a local partner for organizations seeking community access and acceptance — bringing genuine local roots to a joint response.
- As a direct recipient of funding — as our track record grows, delivering and accounting for funded programmes to standard.
- Through technical collaboration and coordination — contributing to and drawing on the shared humanitarian response.
- Through capacity partnership — working with those who invest in strengthening credible national organizations.