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Pact developed the Business Sustainability Planning and Resource Mobilization Toolkit to enable NGOs and CSOs to identify and implement business models that will enable them to scale up and sustain how they serve the communities they represent. The toolkit can be used by organizations and capacity development partners to enable CSOs and NGOs to construct and implement business sustainability plans that are customized to each organization’s mission and the local funding context. The toolkit supports local organizations in achieving their organizational vision and becoming resilient.
This guidebook is an outcome from a Shared Learning Convening on Alternative Funding Models for Civil Society organised by the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and Innovation for Change (I4C) - Africa. The convening attracted 25 civil society actors and organisations from Africa, Latin America and Europe to share strategies, models, experiences and lessons learnt from the implementation of non-traditional approaches to generate financial resources convening with the aim to raise awareness, broaden the understanding of financial sustainability, promulgate best practices for the civil society sector and improve the practice of sustainability of CSOs.
This guidebook will help CSOs to explore the existing models that are being used, understand them and know how to implement a given model that aligns with the mandate of their organisation. This resource highlights the conducive factors that CSOs need to cultivate their financial sustainability and to advance their development objectives.
Pact developed the Business Sustainability Planning and Resource Mobilization Toolkit to enable non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) to identify and implement business models that will enable them to scale up and sustain how they serve the communities they represent. The toolkit can be used by organizations and capacity development (CD) partners to enable CSOs and NGOs to construct and implement business sustainability plans (BSPs) that are customized to each organization's mission and the local funding context.
The overall objective of the Resource Mobilisation Strategy is to ensure that there is a clear, systematic, predictable and well co-ordinated approach to soliciting, acquiring, and utilisation, management, reporting, monitoring, and evaluating assistance from International Cooperating Partners and for expanding the resource base to ensure sustainable resource availability for implementation of the programmes in support of regional integration and Sustainable Development Goals for the region.
