Financial Resilience Hub

KCDF is a member of the East Africa Financial Resilience Resource Hub, a five-year program incorporating the Foundation for Civil Society (FCS) from Tanzania, and CivFund-Africa from Uganda. The three partners are co-creating a hub that will work with civil society in all its diversity including organisations, organised groups, movements, activists, and minority groups, to reaffirm visions from, and capacities in the Global South, consolidate the Global South’s role in building resilient and impactful institutions and help develop a South-based network of financial resource hub that permeates dominant Global North paradigms of institutional development and resilience.

The hub is guided by its impact statement, a financially resilient indigenous civil society ecosystem that generates, builds and manages resources sustainably to advance its social justice goals.

This hub is part of the Ford Foundation’s Weaving Resilience Initiative, which supports civil society organisations in the Global South with financial resilience. With support from the Ford Foundation, the hub is working toward the following specific outcomes:

• Small and medium-sized East African civil society organisations are more compliant in their operations.
• East African civil society actors, especially those in underserved regions, have greater access to financial and technical capacity services.
• East African civil society actors are less dependent on foreign funding and are increasingly exploring options for flexible funding and locally-rooted business models;
• The Financial Resilience Resource Hub is well coordinated, with a shared vision enabling effective collaboration, learning, and resourcing in the interest of the local East African civil society ecosystem.

The hub’s mission is to provide technical and financial resources to advance the capacities of civil society, community-based groups, and other formations’ ability to fundraise, manage resources, comply with financial requirements, and diversify their funding base.