About Project Earth

01 — The Project Earth Mission

Project Earth links donors and projects, workers and volunteers, giving financial, technical, logistical and workforce support to grass-roots, community-driven projects in developing countries and communities. The aim is to allow those communities to build their capacity in common welfare by producing and improving infrastructure for health, education, sanitation, transport and accommodation services, and to support communities in articulating and fulfilling their own development needs and objectives.

Communities in remote, regional and rural areas are supported to define their development goals and profile them in a common marketplace visible to prospective donors, where projects and their sponsors can compete for donation funds.

Once deployed, Project Earth will assist project sponsors to create and deliver on project commitments by supplying project-management knowledge, tools and active support, volunteer knowledge inputs to project design and specification, and on-the-ground construction management and labour contributions. Project Earth will also manage and control the deployment of donations towards projects on behalf of donors. This process delivers on the immediate needs of the community as defined by the community, and builds skills and capacities in those communities for future projects.

“… We all seek to send our children to school, Project Earth will help us to build the school for our children to go to …”Matthew Williams, Founder

02 — The Project Earth Benefit

Investment by communities into their own public infrastructure assets is a transparent and effective way to spend donation funds in terms of welfare gains. Community infrastructure projects can be reliably priced and managed in terms of capital expenditure, so that each unit of currency spent goes to a defined purpose. Project Earth provides a platform for communities to profile those development aspirations, and to exhibit the benefits of their delivery.

Accountable expenditure and measurable outcomes give donors confidence that their contributions produce defined improvements, and the delivery of each project creates a lasting community asset.

Project Earth intends to operate as a complement to existing development assistance — such as community services, health and nutrition programmes — by focussing on construction and building projects. Realised building projects can then support broader welfare development objectives for communities around the world.

03 — The Project Earth Capacity

Project Earth will link knowledge resources related to project design and delivery to project needs in developing countries, supporting the transfer of technical skill and project know-how to help initiate and define projects so they are suitable to receive donations.

Project Earth will support and manage a network of willing workers who can travel to a project location to contribute on the ground. Once mobilised, project sponsors are supported to manage and deliver their project and donation commitments through project-management tools and expertise, and internal processes of review and control of project status and expenditure, so that projects proceed through the required management gateways.

Through the project life cycle, the Project Earth system provides donors and others with insight into each stage of fulfilment of the project objectives.

Project Earth will nurture, develop and maintain relationships with project sponsors, so that sponsors build their own capacity to manage the inception, definition and delivery of community projects over time.