Micaia, either through the Foundation or company (Eco-Micaia Ltd), offers its practice-based learning to partners and clients through service contracts. Very often, the commercial nature of contracts means that clients and partners prefer to work with the company, but in offering services, we draw on the entire experience and skills of our Micaia staff teams and network of associates – most of whom are Micaia ‘alumni’.

Micaia’s theory of change incorporates a core conviction that our work with communities (and in value chains) over time is generating learning that can inform policy and practice. Demonstrating success and learning from setbacks in varied landscapes and value chains allows knowledge to be shared with broader provincial and national development processes, and internationally. We do this through documenting and publishing the results and what we learned from different actions.

Micaia Foundation is an experienced grantmaker, having integrated small grants, matching grants, and seed funding in many programmes over the last 10 years. Our dream and intention have always been to use any future surplus generated by our enterprises to fund our own grants programmes.