This paper examines the governance structures that Camfed has erected to
meet this challenge. In our view, Camfed’s governance model works for two principal
reasons. First, it requires Camfed to render account to the girls it supports—
much as good governance for corporations and financial institutions, and their
regulators, requires those entities to account to their shareholders, investors, or
consumers. Indeed, Camfed maintains that it owes the children on whose behalf it
acts a duty of care equivalent to that which lawyers and other professionals owe
their clients.