Present funding channels

Major tranches of funding for the FUPNAPIB, MOPAWI and Chanchamayo Projects  are channeled directly from the funding trusts to the implementing NGOs.  Smaller programs are funded from private donations that have accrued since the publication of journal and newspaper articles about the Cambridge Projects.  These have been channeled through funds managed by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) who have vetted the recipients.

Future funding aims

Major corporate funding will be targeted by this new Trust with the aim of establishing an endowment.  Income from this will be used in creating and supporting a top-flight demonstration facility in, at least, Honduras.  The ideal will be an appropriate capital expenditure on essential infrastructure, together with the salaries of key individuals in the long-term.

Technical inputs to the projects - present and future monitoring

At present, projects are visited and reports prepared for the funding bodies by Michael Hands (MRH).  These visits have been made, over the past five years, on a voluntary basis under personal, but not contractual, obligation to those bodies. 

It is likely that an increased potential workload would entail a more formal arrangement.  It is also likely that additional inputs will be required from him, and possibly other Board members, in support of the initial setting up of a project in a new country if, and when, that eventuality should occur.  Up to the present, the overall strategy has been based upon collaborating bodies who have worked with, and are very well known (often over considerable time-spans) to one or other Board member.  In these cases, project establishment is relatively trouble-free and no time need have been spent in costly operations to identify and evaluate potential collaborators.  In the cases of Peru, Ecuador and Honduras, actual or potential collaborators have already worked on Inga field research under Dr. Pennington's or MRH's previous projects and setting-up has thus been achieved at minimal cost in time or resources.  This situation will clearly change should some other countries become candidates for a demonstration facility.  In the cases of the monitoring of existing projects or technical inputs to new ones, there could arise potential conflicts of interest.  This possibility has been addressed in the Trust Deed which allows for such an eventuality.