CivFund joined Tanzania’s CSO Week 2024, contributing to critical discussions on resilience, sustainability, and civil society's role in shaping Tanzania’s future. Through its Resilience Fund, CivFund supported the event’s mission to foster collective action, financial strength, and strategic adaptability for civil society across Africa.
Read MoreThe Resilience Fund Co-Creation Workshop, themed “Mastering Financial Resilience,” brought together CSO leaders in Dar es Salaam to explore sustainable financial strategies. With insights on social enterprises and endowment funds, participants gained tools to build self-sustaining models and reduce donor reliance.
Read MoreGrowing Financial Strength at the 2024 Bootcamp
Rooted in resilience, the Financial Fitness Bootcamp 2024 empowered twenty civil society organizations with essential skills to build sustainable futures. Through hands-on sessions and community support, participants gained tools for mastering financial resilience, ensuring their organizations can thrive even in challenging environments.
Read MoreDuring the three-day convening, discussions dived deep into the highlights and challenges of the past year's project activities. Members shared successful moments and crucial lessons learned from the encountered challenges. The intentional focus on co-creating and learning together was evident, with teams purposefully attending each other’s activities and harmonizing workplans for the current year to ensure availability during core activities.
Read MoreCissy Kagaba is a lawyer by profession, passionate and astute Anti- Corruption and Governance expert with a rich experience in the sector spanning 20 years. She has a proven track record engaging with cutting edge governance, human rights, anti-corruption, accountability, and democracy both at national level and international levels. She has horned expertise in advocacy and campaigns, policy analysis, project planning and management and system strengthening.
Read MoreThe East Africa Financial Resilience Resource Hub (EA FRRH) incorporates CivSource-Africa, Uganda, the Foundation for Civil Society (FCS), Tanzania, and Kenya Community Development Foundation.
The three partners are co-creating a hub that is working with civil society in all its diversity including: Organizations, organized groups, movements, activists, and minority groups, to re-affirm visions from, and capacities in the Global South…
Read MoreThe recently concluded onboarding Financial Bootcamp, led by the Kenya Community Development Organization (KCDF), was not just an event; it was a pivotal moment of transformation. It served as a testament to our collective intention and marked a departure from business as usual to a new paradigm of business as usual but rather business unusual moving forward!
Read MoreHeld from the 2nd to the 4th of August 2023, the Financial Fitness Bootcamp, organized by the Resilience Fund under the stewardship of CivFund, the grant-making arm of CivSource Africa, emerged as a pivotal event. This gathering drew a diverse cohort of participants hailing from different civil society organizations. The bootcamp was strategically designed to impart knowledge, tools, and strategies, equipping these organizations to bolster their financial resilience and ensure sustained viability.
Read MoreDevelopment has to be about people, affirms Dr. Anthony Mveyange, the Executive Director of African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) as he made the keynote address marking the opening of the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) week 2022. This was held in Arusha this year at the Arusha International Conference Center from October 24th to 28th 2022. The 5-day event brought together civil society actors, donors, media, key influencers from the East African region in a space that encouraged learning, networking, and deepening of relationship as they deliberated on the sector’s performance and future.
Read MoreThe Resilience Fund is one of the funds managed by CivFund. The Resilience Fund supports the recovery efforts of organizations impacted by the shrinking civic space, dwindling donor funding and other social issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In several African countries, the space for civil society is closing due to legal and socio-political hurdles in accessing funding that is crucial to their work. For most civil society actors, it is no longer business as usual. The dynamics in operating environment have changed, and so civil society must change and adapt. Through the Resilience Fund, CivFund lives up to her goal of providing flexible, responsive, and accessible funding to civil society.
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