A new Humentum analysis argues that the current funding crisis should push donors beyond the assumption that stronger individual organisations automatically produce stronger civil society. While organisational development remains important, civil society’s resilience increasingly depends on its ability to analyse challenges and act collectively, requiring investment in relationships, coordination and shared infrastructure. The analysis calls for creating conditions that make collaboration easier than competition; directly funding coordination, relationship-building and collective sensemaking; and redistributing decision-making power through localisation and participatory grantmaking. Its central argument is that civil society should be treated as democratic and social infrastructure, requiring donors to invest in the connective capacity that makes collective action possible. Read more here.
Source: Alliance Magazine