Funding civil society actors in partner countries remains marginal despite recognition of the importance of localising support and international commitments to strengthening partner-country civil society actors’ ownership. Only 7% of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members’ CSOs funding goes directly to partner-country CSOs. This OECD toolkit offers providers guidance for funding civil society actors in partner countries. It helps them deliver on the provisions of the OECD DAC Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance related to funding: to strengthen local leadership and ownership, and foster strong, independent, diverse civil society; and by increasing the availability and accessibility of direct, flexible, and predictable support including core and/or programme-based support. Read more here.
Source: ICNL
