CariPhil and the OECD Centre on Philanthropy are partnering to strengthen the visibility, coordination, and strategic use of philanthropic capital across the Caribbean through data, insight, and regional engagement.
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CariPhil and the OECD Centre on Philanthropy are partnering to strengthen the visibility, coordination, and strategic use of philanthropic capital across the Caribbean through data, insight, and regional engagement.
The Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance and the OECD Centre on Philanthropy are advancing a regional partnership to better understand how philanthropy flows across the Caribbean, where gaps persist, and how funding can be more effectively aligned with locally led priorities, sustainable development, and long-term resilience.
Grounded in CariPhil’s role as a regional intermediary and the OECD’s global leadership in philanthropy data and analysis and contributes global research, comparative analysis, data systems, and experience tracking philanthropy for development across countries and sectors, this partnership is helping build the evidence base needed for smarter, more coordinated philanthropic action.
This partnership is anchored by the Caribbean Philanthropy Survey, a regional initiative designed to document how philanthropy operates across the Caribbean and to strengthen the knowledge infrastructure needed for more effective action and to elevate the region within global philanthropic systems.
CariPhil operates as a philanthropy-serving organization and regional intermediary, connecting assets, actors, and resources to support more coordinated impact. Its existing architecture, including the Knowledge Hub, Membership Platform, and convening role, makes it a strong regional host for this work.
The OECD partnership therefore sits within a wider institutional trajectory: building the infrastructure the Caribbean needs to better organize, understand, and mobilize philanthropic capital.
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At the center of the partnership is the CariPhil–OECD Caribbean Philanthropy Survey: a regional data and intelligence initiative designed to capture and track philanthropic flows across the Caribbean. The survey aims to provide a clearer picture of where resources are going, what sectors are being prioritized, how philanthropy is operating, and where important gaps remain. It is intended to support more informed, coordinated, and effective philanthropic investment aligned with regional development priorities and the SDGs.
The survey is not just about data collection. It is about building regional intelligence that can support funders, intermediaries, civil society and development partners in making better decisions and acting with greater coordination.
The survey approach is designed to move beyond static information gathering. It combines research, stakeholder engagement, expert input, and regional convening to ensure that the survey is both technically sound and grounded in Caribbean realities.
This approach reflects OECD’s wider model of combining data, research, and policy dialogue, while leveraging CariPhil’s role as a trusted regional platform that can engage funders and stakeholders across the Caribbean ecosystem.
Over time, the partnership is intended to help make Caribbean philanthropy more visible, more legible, and more actionable. It can support the following:
A structured engagement model will support both focused technical input and inclusive participation.
Priority engagement will include CariPhil members who are active in the network. The process will also include funders and other relevant stakeholders with insight into the regional philanthropic landscape through curated selection or expressed interest.
Advisory participation, technical insight, survey design support, pilot review, outreach strategy.
Regional perspective, participation input, validation, sector intelligence.
Specialized technical knowledge, thematic advice, methodological support.
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Position your institution as a contributor to the region’s first coordinated evidence base—informing funding, policy, and system-level action.
Integrate your insights into the CariPhil–OECD platform and gain visibility across regional and international philanthropy spaces.
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We look forward to you contributing to building the Caribbean’s shared philanthropic data infrastructure—and ensuring your work and institution informs how capital is aligned, deployed and being part of the region’s emerging data and coordination infrastructure.
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