The Guerrilla Foundation is an intermediary funder in Europe, supporting activists and grassroots movements in a more participatory way. Its team believes in bringing about major systemic change acro ...
Towards Solidarity: Introducing the Yemen Civil Society Solidarity Fund
What does it look like to fund based on the values of transparency, flexibility and solidarity? We co-launched the Yemen Civil Society Solidarity Fund with Yemeni civil society to find out if new, tr ...
Financing Mechanisms to Support Local Peacebuilders
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) and GPPAC have partnered to explore avenues to better support local peacebuilding work through strengthening the quality - meaning the flexibility, sustainabilit ...
Rethinking Humanitarianism: How mutual aid in Sudan is getting international support
Co-hosts Heba Aly and Melissa Fundira speak to two guests about unprecedented levels of collaboration between ERRs and the international humanitarian system, how they are trying to overcome the chall ...
Resourcing Change: Supporting Women’s Rights Organizations in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Funded by the UK’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, our ‘Resourcing Change’ project – in partnership with WILPF and Saferworld – has provided 21 women’s rights organizations in Nigeria, South S ...
South Meets North in Power Shift: A Participatory Grantmaking (PGM) Model
Following an extensive prototyping process by RINGO Lab members, Norsaac and Transform Trade have produced a new practical resource for those interested in adopting a more participatory way of workin ...
Rethinking Aid Financing: How Locally Led Organisations Are Funding Their Futures
During a wide-ranging panel moderated by The New Humanitarian on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last week, aid leaders described how local organisations are taking matters into their own ha ...
A Reflection on the Importance of Unrestricted Funding
The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and northern Syria on Feb. 6, 2023 was met with an overwhelming response from donors and well-wishers around the world. Local organizations – always the fir ...
Advancing Local Peacebuilding Impact Through Quality Financing
On 23 May 2023, a civil society-donor roundtable discussion took place in Yaoundé. The discussion focused on best practices that champion solutions for more impactful financing for peacebuilding in C ...
Canada shows it’s possible: Systematically providing overhead costs to partners
Having sufficient funds to cover staff resources and administrative costs in an organisation is key for the sustainability of any organisation, be it international or local. While donors recognise th ...