Clinton School student Anatoliy Shatkovskyy spent the past year working with Heifer International, the world hunger and poverty organization, to increase funding sources and analyze rural development projects in Central and Eastern Europe.
Shatkovskyy, a native of Cherkasy, Ukraine, has researched European funding instruments as part of Heifer International’s efforts to raise additional funds to increase the impact of its projects around the world. He’s completing the project for his final Capstone requirement in the Clinton School’s Master of Public Service degree program.
An integral component of this initiative is to strengthen the organization’s access to different types of institutional funding sources such as the European Union, USAID and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Shatkovskyy said.
Shatkovskyy worked to identify institutional sources that set similar goals as Heifer projects in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. Each year, Heifer relies on private donations for much of its project implementation budget, and it’s working to increase these efforts by utilizing additional resources to further increase program effectiveness, Shatkovskyy said.
Working in Heifer’s Little Rock-based international headquarters, Shatkovskyy is compiling his research findings into a resource mobilization manual that will serve as a guide for Heifer staff at the headquarters and in field offices in Central and Eastern Europe and other areas when applying for grants and other types of funding from European institutions.
“We are very pleased to have been able to partner with the Clinton School, bringing Anatoliy on board to help us develop resources that will certainly help us identify opportunities for partnership and funding beyond those that Heifer has traditionally relied on,” said Pietro Turilli, Heifer’s vice president of Central and Eastern Europe. “With the valuable work done during the internship, Heifer is certainly in a better place to continue to scale up our programmatic work and achieve even greater results in combating hunger and poverty.”
In addition to creating the resource mobilization manual, Shatkovskyy has participated in the project development process for Heifer’s projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Heifer has recently revised policies aimed at increasing project impact, and Shatkovskyy has analyzed project proposals, progress reports and agreements with other organizations to ensure consistency with these policies and provide feedback on facilitation of the project development process.
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