The Akvo Marketplace

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• The Akvo Marketplace
  • What is the Akvo Marketplace?
  • How long does it usually take for a project to attract funds?
  • If my project is completely funded, how do I get the money?
• Reporting on projects with Really Simple Reporting
• Sharing knowledge - Akvopedia
• Interacting with the Akvo website/system

What is the Akvo Marketplace?

The Akvo Marketplace showcases development aid projects, including many that are still unfunded (or part-funded). Organisations, companies and individuals looking to fund a project use it to learn about project goals, affected communities, plans for maintaining facilities and/or sustaining impact, and more. Akvo collects the funds and channels them to the Support partner.

You can showcase a project on your website too by embedding an Akvo widget.

How long does it usually take for a project to attract funds?

Current active projects in the Akvo Marketplace have taken anywhere from a week to half a year to attract funding.

Posting a project on Akvo Marketplace is an opportunity to raise funds, not a guarantee. Partners still need to figure out the best way our tools can be used to draw attention and attract funding to their project, and how to best present it to funders. We'll share new ways for attracting funds via Akvo as they develop.

Akvo has strategic partnerships in place with organisations and companies that structurally use our platform to fund projects of their choice.

If my project is completely funded, how do I get the money?

The money is transferred by the Netherlands-based Rabobank to the support partner's local bank, who then manages the transfer of the money to the field partner.