Deadline: 18-Mar-22
The Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) is inviting civil society organizations (CSOs) in Kenya i.e NGOs, Self-help Groups, FBOs and CBOs to join the Change the Game Academy training in Local Fundraising Training.
KCDF in partnership with Wilde Ganzen launched an ambitious programme dubbed ‘Change the Game’ in 2015. ‘Change the Game’ aims to push forward the conversation about ways of ‘doing and deciding’ how development is practiced through enhancing the capacity of communities to shape their own future and prioritize development needs.
The Change the Game Academy seeks to support organizations to strengthen their local fundraising capacity for increased sustainability, ownership, and legitimacy. The Academy also supports organizations to hold their governments accountable through claim-making.
Objectives
The following are key objectives:
- Build the capacities of grassroots organizations to identify and raise locally available resources for local development challenges.
- Strengthen the capacities of grassroots organizations to make strategic choices on engaging and seeking homegrown solutions to local development needs
- Strengthen systems of grassroots organizations to integrate local fundraising skills for organizational and community resilience and sustainable development.
Local Fundraising Training Pathway
The Training Pathway: The project focuses on a training trajectory of 11 days split into four modules that will be offered in a period of six months. The modules are split as follows:
- Module One: Leader’s Meeting (Two Day Training Held Face to Face) – This is an introductory course for the leadership of the participating organizations. Two leaders from a participating organization take this module. This could be the Executive Director, a manager, or a team leader. The training aims at gaining a leader’s initial commitment to the training.
- Module Two: A-Level Course (Champions Training – Five Day Training Held Face to Face) – After Module 1, each organization nominates two participants or champions. These will be the persons directly responsible for resource mobilization/ fundraising activities for the participating organizations. For some organizations, the leaders may double as champions.
- Module Three: Learning and Evaluation (Webinar – Two Days of Evaluation Held Online) – This module builds upon the gains made under module 2 (Champions Course) and the action planning and coaching received by the champions. The champions share and reflect on the experience of participating organizations as they integrate the knowledge and skills acquired during the face-to-face training and coaching sessions.
- Module Four: Graduate Course (2 Days of Training Held Face to Face) – This is the last module aimed at providing a platform to evaluate the actions undertaken throughout the training trajectory. It is anticipated that by this point, the contribution to the new skills is embedded in the organization.
Funding Information
- Calculated total costs are at Kes.16,000 for each participant residing (provided with accommodation) and Kes. 8,000 for each non-resident. Payable on or before the training commences.
- The training trajectory is scheduled to take a period of six months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a Kenyan registered civil society organization.
- Committed to diversifying your income sources/ growing your organizational capability to raise local resources (cash and in-kind)
- Willing to pay 10% of the total costs.
- Committed to following all the modules.
- An organization is willing to nominate two participants.
- Willing to cater for participants’ own transport costs. All face-to-face training sessions will take place in Nairobi and Kilimani area at a venue yet to be confirmed.
For more information, visit https://www.kcdf.or.ke/index.php/work/call-for-applications
