The study, produced by the Twerwaneho Listeners' Club (TLC) in Western Uganda, offers a thorough exploration of how giving has evolved in the communities where TLC is active. It delves into various reforms to local giving: some are as a result of changes in the way communities live, while others are a result of structural changes to the government’s service delivery. It concludes that giving has always been an intrinsic part of the ethos of the communities studied - indeed sharing has always been regarded as a necessary aspect of survival - and explores the role of informal education (folklore/story telling and proverbs) in shaping the spirit/culture of giving to...

Systems of community giving and self-help have always existed within different cultures and traditions around the world. But it is only recently that community philanthropy has started to gain visibility as a specific practice that has relevance to the broader field of international development. In this article, we focus on what community philanthropy looks like as development practice, drawing on examples from a global cohort of 16 organisations that identify with the community philanthropy concept. We define community philanthropy as a value-driven development practice that builds assets, capacities, and trust. In particular, it focuses on the role that local resources can play in community development, and how their presence can...

Stopping As Success (a consortium consisting of Peace Direct, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, and Search for Common Ground, with support and funding from USAID) is a collaborative learning project that aims to study the dynamics at play when ending a development programme, and to provide guidelines on how to ensure locally led development. In doing this, Stopping As Success looks beyond the technical aspects of an exit strategy to identify examples that demonstrate a transition toward locally led development. There are relatively few free, widely available resources about how to access unrestricted funding. Most online sources seem to talk about "what” the funding landscape is and “why” foundations and other funders...

Stopping As Success (a consortium consisting of Peace Direct, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, and Search for Common Ground, with support and funding from USAID) is a collaborative learning project that aims to study the dynamics at play when ending a development programme, and to provide guidelines on how to ensure locally led development. In doing this, Stopping As Success looks beyond the technical aspects of an exit strategy to identify examples that demonstrate a transition toward locally led development. Stopping As Success identified the topic of financial sustainability as critical to responsible INGO aid transitions (financial sustainability in this report refers to the financial sustainability of local organizations after their transition...

Stopping As Success (a consortium consisting of Peace Direct, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, and Search for Common Ground, with support and funding from USAID) is a collaborative learning project that aims to study the dynamics at play when ending a development programme, and to provide guidelines on how to ensure locally led development. In doing this, Stopping As Success looks beyond the technical aspects of an exit strategy to identify examples that demonstrate a transition toward locally led development. This issue paper begins with an examination of the role of the external aid context in shaping the financial sustainability ecosystem. The issue of financial sustainability is then explored by asking three...

This paper is part of a larger study by Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace, started in 2016, to review the current state of philanthropy in emerging economies and the role philanthropy is playing in the world today. This is the fifth report from the study: the earlier four reports in the series are on Philanthropy in India (October 2017), Philanthropy in Russia (January 2018), Philanthropy in the Arab Region (March 2018) and Philanthropy in Brazil (May 2018). Like the other reports, this is not a full-scale statistical survey of Indonesian philanthropy; still less is it a once-and-for-all summing up. Instead, it aims to throw light on current developments in, obstacles...

This research argues that local organizations on the frontlines of conflict – despite being the best equipped for peacebuilding and conflict transformation – are systematically neglected and marginalized from the international peace and security funding ecosystem. Community-led financing, which includes such methods as supporting community foundations, works. Community-based financing is more sustainable than traditional grant funding, as it allows communities to increase and transfer resources, or find new revenue streams. Author: Riva Kantowitz Published by: Peace Direct Published: February 2020 Link to: 'Radical flexibility: Strategic funding for the age of activism'

This paper forms part of a Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace (PSJP) series on ‘defining key concepts.’ The idea is to take terms commonly used in development and elucidate their meaning. 'Sustainability' is used in many different ways that makes this apparently simple term complicated in practice. Terms such as ‘environmental sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ suggest economic development without degradation or depletion of natural resources. ‘Social sustainability’ is about the well-being of people, their quality of life, and human rights. The UN ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) have much wider application, including all the elements of sustainability mentioned so far and much else. The 17 goals represent an entire framework ‘to...

This paper forms part of a Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace (PSJP) series on ‘defining key concepts.’ The idea is to take terms commonly used in development and elucidate their meaning. The paper reveals a crisis at the heart of measurement. There is a mismatch between what happens on the ground in civil society development and what donors want. Donors tend to be obsessed with measurable targets – often of questionable importance – that fit simple linear models of measurement that trace inputs to outputs in a way that claims to embody a scientific approach to validating programme design. The civil society practitioners cited in this paper, on the other...

This paper forms part of a Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace (PSJP) series on ‘defining key concepts.’ The idea is to take terms commonly used in development and elucidate their meaning. This paper is based on webinar discussions held in July 2019 with participants representing development and philanthropy organizations. The paper is a sequel to an earlier paper published in March 2019 entitled ‘Leadership and development.’ The more recent discussions confirmed that ‘leadership’ has numerous definitions, qualities and principles that work differently in different contexts. They confirmed the proposition made in the first paper that leadership is not something that arises simply from an individual holding a certain position in...

The GFCF Annual Report, covering the period 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2019, offers a snapshot of the organization’s activities for the financial year. The report is broken down by the GFCF’s three strategic priorities: supporting individual community philanthropy organizations; connecting the field and growing the evidence base for people-led development; and, building a global movement to #ShiftThePower. Published by: GFCF Published: January 2020 Download: ‘GFCF Annual Report, 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2019'