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The CIVICUS World Alliance is mobilizing a global community to cultivate trust, new ways of thinking, deeper conversation, and meaningful collaboration between grassroots activists, donors, and allies. Noting five actions that can be immodestly undertaken to help drive this collective revolution, CIVICUS is calling for an overhaul of the relationships and systems between activists, donors,
Read more →The implementation of the 2030 Agenda has fallen massively behind as a result of insufficient development finance. Furthermore, the slowly subsiding COVID-19 crisis had led to a simultaneous collapse of all sources of finance. This year’s UN High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) have been dedicated to building back better after the crisis. However, the
Read more →In July 2021, governments, businesses, foundations, and CSOs worldwide convened at the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) and committed to change policy, implement programs, invest financial resources, and step-up advocacy for gender equality. A monumental 40 billion USD in funding was committed for these goals. During the forum, the funders must rethink their principles and practices
Read more →Aid organizations have largely maintained their transparency at pre-pandemic levels. The overall picture of the 2022 Index results is broadly similar to the 2020 Index. The average score has dipped slightly (61.8 in 2022, compared with 63.4 in 2020). This year 31 of the 50 organizations we assessed scored in the ‘good’ or ‘very good’
Read more →The Funding for Real Change website offers a spectrum of practices and resources that vary in flexibility: starting with increasing indirect cost covers to multi-year flexible funding while recognizing that there is not one single call to action that fits all funders globally. By recognizing that there is not one single call to action that
Read more →In July 2021, DAC donors unanimously adopted a Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance, their first-ever international legal policy instrument on enabling civil society. The Recommendation identifies 28 key actions that donor governments should follow to respect, protect, and promote civic space. The DAC CSO Reference Group has established a
Read more →There is an emerging constant in the world of development cooperation: if a crisis emerges, the official development assistance (ODA) is reliably there to soften the impact. In these last few years of crisis after crisis, we have witnessed two distinct phenomena when it comes to ODA budgets – inflation and diversion. The COVID-19 pandemic
Read more →The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing more than USD 225 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine amid Russia’s unprovoked war that has pushed 12 million people from their homes and triggered staggering humanitarian needs. This additional funding will provide lifesaving humanitarian food assistance to people inside Ukraine.
Read more →Many foundations are shifting their funding strategies towards core support. But few foundations are yet to take seriously the organizational development of grantees. Now, more than ever, the need to invest in strengthening civil society organizations has been emphasized. In such an environment, five Swiss Foundations, Laudes, MAVA, Mercator, Oak, and PeaceNexus stand out. They
Read more →Climate shocks, conflict, Covid-19, and spiraling costs of food and fuel are creating a perfect storm, driving millions closer to starvation, and threatening global stability. At the same time, the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine are radiating outwards, triggering a wave of collateral hunger that is spreading across the globe. If the conflict in
Read more →The CSO community stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Many CSOs, both Ukrainian and from other countries, have been actively providing support in Ukraine and in the neighboring countries since the very early stages of the humanitarian crisis due to the invasion. This social resilience and quick response are also the results of
Read more →The UK’s International Development Strategy (IDS) has finally been published – but it fails to address the world’s biggest crises: poverty, inequality, human rights and climate change. It leaves out measures critical to meeting the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, such as ensuring easier green technology transfer and emissions limits for trade. It
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