Highlights Resilience Fund

Cissy 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.

The 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…

The 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!

Held 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.

Development 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.

The 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.