The Projecto Vitó association has experienced strong growth in recent years and this, in turn, has revealed the need to readjust its internal processes to meet new challenges. An organisational development action plan is thus being implemented to strengthen its skills and working tools to ensure its long-term future.
The Audemars Piguet Foundation for Trees has been working with Projecto Vitó since 2022 to conserve endemic threatened flora on Cape Verde’s islands.
In 2017, Projecto Vitó benefitted from multi-year organisational development support funded by the MAVA Foundation. This initial support helped the association to reinforce its governance, improve the management of its human and financial resources, and lay the foundations for a more structured operating model. This progress fostered partnerships with more prominent backers and led to a significant increase in funding.
However, the association’s growth has also revealed the need to readjust internal processes to meet new challenges. A new assessment was therefore carried out in collaboration with the IUCN French Committee’s Small-Scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) and an organisational development action plan was drawn up based on the results.
This action plan, whose implementation is supported by the Audemars Piguet Foundation for Trees, aims to consolidate Projecto Vitó’s growth. It focuses on several major areas:
- Strategy: drawing up a strategic plan for the next five to ten years.
- Organisational sustainability and resilience: greater mobilisation of resources and decentralisation of responsibilities, which are currently concentrated around a few key positions.
- Technical skills: aligning the team’s skills with benchmark standards.
- Financial management: improving transparency and the publishing of accounts in financial processes.
- Communication: fostering engagement with donors, partners and employees.
- Impact monitoring: implementing macro monitoring tools that are no longer limited to project level.
- Capitalising on experience: documenting and disseminating working methods through scientific reports and publications.
- Material resources: aligning physical and logistical resources with the organisation’s strategic objectives.
