Interview: Maurice Makoloo of the Ford Foundation

Alliance editor Charles Keidan interviews Maurice Makoloo, regional director of the Ford Foundation in eastern Africa, to discuss the relationship between civil society and the private sector, the need for investment in philanthropy infrastructure, and the Ford Foundation's commitment to combating inequality

‘If truth be told, some of the people in the private sector do mean well for communities and they actually can feel frustrated when government is trying to do their own thing but, because they have business relationships with them, they don’t want to push too hard.’

Makoloo comments, ‘The starting point of infrastructure is to underscore the value of philanthropy. Yesterday we had the conversation about whether philanthropy is a friend or a foe of social justice.’

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