The contest is not a call for proposals (#21, #20, #19))

We noticed that the attachments that accompanied a few submissions were projects proposals, not project reports. So it was not clear to us if the project finally happened. It is a normal mistake, as Effective Help is proposing something different from most stakeholders: we want to see what is working and help NGOs raise more funds precisely for that, not for another new shiny idea. We don't want NGOs to innovate, to think different, to create something out of nothing, to think big, or to captivate us. We don't care about any of that. We want projects that are existing and are working well, in any of the fields of the competition.

Food Security: They are making people improve their income.

Health: They are preventing death

Protection: They are helping people avoid and mitigate traumatic events.

Although we can help the winners fundraise, Effective Help is not a donor and we can't fund projects. Our focus is to help organizations to scale-up interventions that are already happening. So, with the available information, other participant organizations who submitted project reports made it ahead in the contest.

We encouraged the 3 participants to submit projects to the next contest, which we will resolve in early 2024. Here the link: https://forms.gle/8UxXS7qfXhsiny9d8 We are already accepting early submissions.

So far, small projects are performing better than big ones. Small organizations are highly welcome to present very small projects to the contest (less than 500,000 XAF! even) if they are facing funding constraints. We hope next year the organizations show us what they did, and we are it will be something worth sharing.