Empowering-grassroots
Why Empower Grassroots
Community based organizations are the backbone of the development cycle in any society, and ensure last mile delivery of social services to communities. However, they often face challenges in terms of bandwidth and resources which impedes their potential and impact.
Traditionally, we depend on large foundations or international grant making institutions for our major funding, but these are often out of reach for local social initiatives. However, with a rising middle class and the increasing appetite for CSR initiatives among corporates, several new doors have opened for community-based organizations within the country.
AECA’s Empowering Grassroots programme is designed to help such grassroots social initiatives become locally sustainable through institutional strengthening activities. These capacity building initiatives helps CBOs to become more efficient, of strong governance structures and enables them to tap locally available resources to ensure long term sustainability of the social projects.
What we do
AECA empowers Community Based Organization’s through a comprehensive institutional capacity building initiatives tailor made for the specific CBO’s. The areas of capacity building include; Monitoring Learning and Evaluation, Organizational Development, Change Management, Governance, Fundraising, Financial Management, Employee Wellness, Safeguarding and Child protection.
Our Interventions
2. Strengthening the governance structure through a series of leadership courses.
How We Work
Capacity Building of CBOs
Co-creating projects with local CBOs
We extend resource mobilization expertise by co-designing and developing projects with partners CBO’s to build our respective fundraising capacities and ensure the smooth functioning of our respective social initiatives.
Our Impact
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Organisations have been able to raise funds locally
