Where the horizontal meets the vertical

Authors: Caesar Ngule & Janet Mawiyoo, Kenya Community Development Foundation

Published by: Alliance Magazine

Published: November 2016

From 1997 to 2010, Kenya enjoyed a significant share of foreign aid with many organisations depending entirely on it for their operation. Following the recession and the subsequent reclassification of Kenya as a low- to middle-income country, aid flows have fallen off. Through these changes, Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) and similar groups have persisted in promoting a model that seeks to entrench local giving and to support this horizontal form of philanthropy by using the funds it raises to catalyse funding from external sources.

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