Throughout 2019, ACS led an effort to design a capacity cohort program for organizations working on fisheries management and marine conservation in Chile. The overarching goal of the program is to build the capacity of Chile grantees of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, and Marisla Foundation. First, we identified and scoped Chilean institutions that offer and execute organizational development and capacity building trainings. During this phase, we also collected relevant information from grantees via an online survey and conducted secondary research on related programs. Second, we conducted in-depth interviews with a short-list of potential implementing partners and synthesized information collected from grantees. Third, we worked with the foundations to select an implementing partner – Glocalminds. Fourth, we worked with Glocalminds to support them in the design and execution of a grantee stakeholder design workshop in Santiago. Following the workshop, Glocalminds finalized and improved the design of the program, which has been named Mingamar. ACS will continue to support Glocalminds as they launch Mingamar during 2020.
