Connect to Care Global launches to drive post-aid development across Global South

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Founder and Director

Chandita Samaranayake

Connect to Care Global (CTCG), a development organisation, officially launched yesterday to help international agencies and regional partners across the Global South navigate a rapidly changing aid landscape. As the Global North reduces its traditional aid commitments, a post-aid world is emerging that demands smarter, faster, and more locally grounded solutions.

“It’s a critical time for all of us in the Global South as we grapple with a multitude of problems in the face of declining Global North aid budgets,” said CTCG Founder and Director Chandita Samaranayake. “Connect to Care Global is both a comprehensive response to this challenge and an opportunity to build a more resilient development sector across the Global South.”

Backed by a regional network of experienced consultants based across South and Southeast Asia, CTCG brings together deep local knowledge with cross-sector expertise in technology, strategic communications, and non-profit operations. The team includes former diplomats, advisors to governments, private sector and CSO leaders and has delivered projects in every part of Asia, offering a unique ability to bridge global strategic thinking with local execution.

While officially launching today, CTCG has been delivering for the past 12 months, including nutrition, water resource management and recycling projects in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Rwanda.

CTCG’s approach is built upon three core pillars:

Think and acting politically – by aligning with local power structures and governance dynamics
Adopting digital solutions – leveraging tech to scale impact across health, education, agriculture, governance, and finance
Building South-South cooperation – promoting peer learning, context-aware solutions, and regional capacity-building

The organisation’s fundamental approach relies on unlocking the power of local and regional talent. Designing projects that include local private sector stakeholders and align with government priorities while taking into account the priorities and needs of development sector partners.

Now open for partnerships, Connect to Care Global invites development agencies, multilateral institutions, private sector organisations and foundations to collaborate on politically smart, digitally enabled, and regionally grounded programs.

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