This document provides information on funding strategies and trends for NGOs in 2022. It discusses how NGOs should focus on local donors and activities that align with their mission over strictly aligning with donor priorities. Major donors are emphasizing health, gender, education, climate and local partnerships. Funding is increasing for these areas from organizations like USAID, EU, Sweden, Norway and Germany. NGOs are advised to develop a portfolio of diverse funding sources that enhances their unique value and supports their objectives. The document also lists free training resources for NGOs to help improve their funding strategies.
Institutional funding opportunities & strategies during Covid-19MzN International
What are institutional donors doing in response to Covid-19?
What are their priorities and strategies?
What does that mean for funding for contractors and implementers?
What funding opportunities do exist and how are current funding opportunities impacted?
Income is not our first priority.
Funding in Covid-19 and principles of a good income stream.
Donor’s response in the pandemic.
Practical steps to build a sustainable income stream.
INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING AND FUNDING MODELS DURING & AFTER COVID-19MzN International
Broad update on Institutional Funding Opportunities
What are their priorities and strategies?
What does that mean for funding strategies?
What to do now?
Institutional funding opportunities & strategies during Covid-19MzN International
What are institutional donors doing in response to Covid-19?
What are their priorities and strategies?
What does that mean for funding for contractors and implementers?
What funding opportunities do exist and how are current funding opportunities impacted?
Income is not our first priority.
Funding in Covid-19 and principles of a good income stream.
Donor’s response in the pandemic.
Practical steps to build a sustainable income stream.
INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING AND FUNDING MODELS DURING & AFTER COVID-19MzN International
Broad update on Institutional Funding Opportunities
What are their priorities and strategies?
What does that mean for funding strategies?
What to do now?
The most protracted, complex and pressing problems we have in the world today need innovative solutions, sustained over time. That does not match a donor template. Most organisations tackling these problems need a better business model.
The future NGO is agile, entrepreneurial and digitalMzN International
How we deliver impact in a disrupted world
- Committed to deliver amidst disruption
- Agile is a buzzword: Here‘s what it comes down to
- Digital and entrepreneurial - essential to becoming agile
- Five lessons from agile transformations in 2020
- Action recommendations
BETTER FUNDING MODELS THROUGH & BEYOND THE COVID-19 CRISISMzN International
Joint MzN and CONCORD Seminar:
Funding is not the No.1 priority.
Delivering your mandate is!
Funding should be mandate driven – not the other way around!
Funds-flow dictate de-facto strategy.
We therefore need to strategise your funds flow!
This is difficult at any time, but especially
during this crisis. But we can use crises to get
funding right in the “NEW NORMAL”!
How do we develop & action a strategy in times of rapid change, constant disruption and uncertainty?
Is it even important to have a strategy when everything changes all the time?
How do I build uncertainty into my strategy?
How do I prepare my organisation for this?
Change drivers
1. Disruption in the operating environment
2. Localisation & power shift to global south is a priority
3. Businesses push into sustainability
4. Grant funding is inconsistent and insufficient
5. Poverty is on the rise, again
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award. This webinar will also offer an opportunity to discuss your proposal with members of our team.
- Challenges to proposal writing
- What do funders look for?
- 10 questions every proposal should answer
- How to get to submitting successful proposals
How to Use Your Database to Power Your Fundraising - FINZ 2014 PresentationBlackbaud Pacific
At the 2014 FINZ Conference Naomi Hamilton-Hakim, Blackbaud Pacific's Senior Marketing & Partnerships Manager led a presentation on ensuring your database empowers your fundraising.
Digitization acceleration why it matter for institutional funding and grants...MzN International
● In short - what do we need to build stable income streams (in a disrupted world)?
● Why digitalization?
● How do you digititalize funding?
● What does it mean to digititalize funding?
● 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
Get an update on this quarter’s new funding streams. Our team will share donor trends, upcoming new funding streams, and programs from USAID, the EU, GIZ, Nordic donors, and the United Nations.
The most protracted, complex and pressing problems we have in the world today need innovative solutions, sustained over time. That does not match a donor template. Most organisations tackling these problems need a better business model.
The future NGO is agile, entrepreneurial and digitalMzN International
How we deliver impact in a disrupted world
- Committed to deliver amidst disruption
- Agile is a buzzword: Here‘s what it comes down to
- Digital and entrepreneurial - essential to becoming agile
- Five lessons from agile transformations in 2020
- Action recommendations
BETTER FUNDING MODELS THROUGH & BEYOND THE COVID-19 CRISISMzN International
Joint MzN and CONCORD Seminar:
Funding is not the No.1 priority.
Delivering your mandate is!
Funding should be mandate driven – not the other way around!
Funds-flow dictate de-facto strategy.
We therefore need to strategise your funds flow!
This is difficult at any time, but especially
during this crisis. But we can use crises to get
funding right in the “NEW NORMAL”!
How do we develop & action a strategy in times of rapid change, constant disruption and uncertainty?
Is it even important to have a strategy when everything changes all the time?
How do I build uncertainty into my strategy?
How do I prepare my organisation for this?
Change drivers
1. Disruption in the operating environment
2. Localisation & power shift to global south is a priority
3. Businesses push into sustainability
4. Grant funding is inconsistent and insufficient
5. Poverty is on the rise, again
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award. This webinar will also offer an opportunity to discuss your proposal with members of our team.
- Challenges to proposal writing
- What do funders look for?
- 10 questions every proposal should answer
- How to get to submitting successful proposals
How to Use Your Database to Power Your Fundraising - FINZ 2014 PresentationBlackbaud Pacific
At the 2014 FINZ Conference Naomi Hamilton-Hakim, Blackbaud Pacific's Senior Marketing & Partnerships Manager led a presentation on ensuring your database empowers your fundraising.
Digitization acceleration why it matter for institutional funding and grants...MzN International
● In short - what do we need to build stable income streams (in a disrupted world)?
● Why digitalization?
● How do you digititalize funding?
● What does it mean to digititalize funding?
● 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
Get an update on this quarter’s new funding streams. Our team will share donor trends, upcoming new funding streams, and programs from USAID, the EU, GIZ, Nordic donors, and the United Nations.
I mars besökte Salil Shetty – som leder den globala millenniemålskampanjen - Stockholm. Vid besöket mötte han bland annat riksdagsledamöter och tjänstemän vid Sida. Ta del av hans presentaiton.
Tracking the growth of social assistance in developing countries: Databases, challenges and indicators
Armando Barrientos, Professor and Research Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of
Manchester
a.barrientos@manchester.ac.uk
InGRID Expert Workshop on Development and Dissemination of Social Policy Indicators, Swedish Institute for
Social Research, Stockholm, Hotel Sheraton 19-‐‑21 November 2014
Non-Profit Financial Planning for Uncertain Times.pptx.pdfMzN International
In uncertain times, financial scenario planning is a game-changer. In this webinar, we share how we use financial scenario planning to help our NGO partners navigate disruptive times. We will explore how financial forecasting, when done well, can be a deciding factor in impact generation.
Donor mapping is one of the most important tools in the fundraising process and getting it right determines the success or failure of your NGO. We review what a good donor map looks like, dive into the top five sections to focus on and share lessons learned from creating over 200 donor maps.
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award.
For our NGOs and International Organizations to not only survive but thrive, we need to change the way we are funded and improve the way we work. We need to manage our organizations better, be more agile, and need to diversify funding to make them more robust.
In this webinar, we reflect on 10 years of transforming non-profits into agile and better-funded changemakers. We identify five essential attributes that have made some MzN partners successful and thrive through times of crisis. We look ahead to see what leaders can do now to create organizations that deliver profound impact and advance in a disrupted world.
The budget is the centerpiece of a successful proposal. Over half of the proposal failures for USAID, EU and other major institutional donors are due to insufficient or incoherent budgets. We take an in-depth look at common mistakes, how to avoid them and what donors expect to see in a budget.
The Future NGO is Agile, digital and entrepreneurial.pptx.pdfMzN International
We reflect on 10 years of building better NGOs and International Organisations. What are the factors that successful organizations have in common? What does the non-profit of the future look like?
We have assisted non-profits with mergers and acquisitions, alliance structures, and joint ventures for over 10 years. We reflect on which mergers worked, what they cost, and why merging may not always be the answer.
Donor mapping is one of the most important tools in the fundraising process and getting it right determines the success or failure of your NGO. We review what a good donor map looks like, dive into the top five sections to focus on.
For NGOs and international organisations to thrive, we need to change the way we are funded and improve the way we work. We need to manage our organizations better, be more agile, and need to diversify funding to make them more robust.
In this webinar, we will:
- Reflect on 10 years of transforming non-profits into agile and better-funded changemakers
- Identify five essential attributes that have made some MzN partners successful and thrive through the COVID-19 crisis
- Look ahead to see what leaders can do now to create organizations that deliver profound impact and advance in a disrupted world
The session is relevant for CEOs and non-profit leaders in organisational development, strategy, and change who want to build the NGO of the future.
Digitization acceleration - Why it matter for institutional funding and grantsMzN International
Talking points:
- Think before we act on digitalisation
- Stay alert - but calm!
- Be Proactive - but not too much!
- Adapt in a way that suits you - not the tech.
- 5 practical steps towards digitalized funding approaches
In this webinar, we look at our turnaround experience helping financially distressed NGOs over the past 10 years. Hear about past and current case studies (with permission of our clients) and learn about the top three factors that make a turnaround successful.
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
RFP for Reno's Community Assistance CenterThis Is Reno
Property appraisals completed in May for downtown Reno’s Community Assistance and Triage Centers (CAC) reveal that repairing the buildings to bring them back into service would cost an estimated $10.1 million—nearly four times the amount previously reported by city staff.
Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
To date, the following regional organisations maintain or share lists of vessels that have been found to carry out or support IUU fishing within their own or adjacent convention areas and/or species of competence:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO)
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
The Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List merges all these sources into one list that provides a single reference point to identify whether a vessel is currently IUU listed. Vessels that have been IUU listed in the past and subsequently delisted (for example because of a change in ownership, or because the vessel is no longer in service) are also retained on the site, so that the site contains a full historic record of IUU listed fishing vessels.
Unlike the IUU lists published on individual RFMO websites, which may update vessel details infrequently or not at all, the Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List is kept up to date with the best available information regarding changes to vessel identity, flag state, ownership, location, and operations.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
About Potato, The scientific name of the plant is Solanum tuberosum (L).Christina Parmionova
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile
Synopsis (short abstract) In December 2023, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 30 May as the International Day of Potato.
Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
4. 1. What not to align
a. Your mission statement and
values
b. Your personality as an
organisation & team
c. What you will, and will not, do
2. Activities vs Mission match?
No donor matches your mission, but
many of your activities
3. Searching for donors for current
programmes is less efficient.
-> Search for future ones.
4. Look beyond the usual suspects
Some thoughts...
5. 1. Donor mapping: lead by
activities, then by country
2. Most funding is not grants
3. Three basic steps
a. Compose ideal funding
portofolio
b. Plan roadmap
c. Execute with metrics
1. What activities produce
the results that achieve
your organisation’s
objectives?
2. What type of funding do
you need to perform these
activities better than
anyone else? (funding type
should enhance your UVP -
Unique Value Proposition)
Before you start Kick off strong into 2022
7. 1. Go fast
Average bidding time now 28 days
2. Go local, seriously
a. USAID aims 25% (currently 6%) goes to local
organisationy by 2024. 50% by 2030
b. SA, Kenya, Nigeria, TZ, Ethiopia lead in localisation
c. Health & Democracy focus
3. Go green, now
($80b in 2019 to $118b in 2025)
a. Germany ($8.5n in 2019)
b. Japan ($6.3b in 2019)
c. EU ($5.6b in 2019)
d. France, UK, USA
4. Go for health, gender & education
8. General global funding trends
ODA 2018 - 2020
Growth decrease
% top 3
UK
Netherlands
Italy
ODA 2020
rank volume
USD Top 5
US
Germany
UK
Japan
France
● Quantitative analyses showed that in the past ODA tended to
be pro-cyclical.
● During the current pandemic, the response of the largest
bilateral and multilateral donors has not been as bad as often
portrayed.
● Even where donors maintain their 2019 ODA:GNI ratio until
2021, i.e. do not cut their aid budgets more than the fall in
their GNI, the projected decline in aid over the coming period
will be reasonably contained. Decline between 2.5% and
2.9%, depending on growth forecasts.
● However, if the relationship between donor countries’ ODA
and economic growth is not linear, we expect ODA to remain
overall constant or slightly increase.
● Landscape changes completely
ODA 2018 - 2020
Growth increase
% top 3
Germany
France
Norway
9. ● Increased focus in East Africa (Ethiopia and Kenya); Afghanistan; Jordan; 2 quarters of
record investment in LatAm & Carib
● Majority health and health systems (Global HIV, Malaria, TB) (Huge increase in Ethiopia)
● Program management (including for cyber security, research and medical institutions, supply
chain)
● Education (Huge investment in Kenya, some in Nigeria, Senegal)
● Democracy & Human Rights (Latin Am, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Jordan)
Recent strategic shifts:
● Biden focussing on COVID response, climate (Ag, Resilience and Energy), democratic
reforms and conflict-affected states
● Much less focus on trade and economic growth than recent years
● Future focus on gender (has appointed a new role, rescinded the Mexico City Policy (global
gag rule for SRHR), new funding for women’s empowerment, education and health
● Aiming for countries to be self-reliant
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US - USAID and DoS
10. ● Europe and neighbourhood
see NDICI - Global Europe for 2021-2027 priorities: 1) Human development, 2) Social
inclusion, 3) Gender equality, 4) Climate change, 5) Environmental protection, and 6)
Migration-related actions)
● Africa partnership
Roadmap to cooperation with Africa including priorities: 1) green transition and energy
access; 2) digital transformation; 3) sustainable growth and jobs; 4) peace and governance;
and 5) migration and mobility
● Still a long term partner to LatAm countries
Priorities: 1) innovative cooperation approaches; 2) reducing disparities between people;
3) sustainable development; 4) climate change; and 5) higher education & research
● Research funding through Horizon
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EU
11. Recent strategic shifts:
● Focus on catalysing private investment in health
● Increasing focus on gender mainstreaming throughout programmes
● Continued focus on science, technology and innovation
● Continued focus on climate change (incl food, energy, biodiversity, oceans)
● Decrease in overall funding available due to UK leaving (‘Brexit’)
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EU Cont’d.
12. ● Gender equality and women’s empowerment (feminist foreign policy)
● Climate change (Sweden is one of the largest donors to the Green Capital Fund (GCF) and
Global Environment Facility (GEF); bilateral ODA focuses on marine resources)
● Democratic governance, human rights, rule of law, and freedom of speech (‘Drive for
Democracy’ initiative from November 2019)
● Conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance (needs based)
The current government’s commitment to the 1% ODA-to-GNI standard remains, despite mounting
pressure from some opposition parties to cut funding levels.
Thematic priorities are also expected to remain unchanged.
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The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
13. Recent strategic shifts:
● Refugee costs down from 34% of total ODA in 2015 to 3% of the total ODA budget in 2021
● Humanitarian assistance (the second-largest spending area of Sweden's bilateral ODA in
2019) remains a growing funding area for Sweden, with a particular focus on
conflict-affected areas
● Democratic governance and human rights are funding priorities, especially in light of the
pandemic (increased funding to Asia, Pacific Region and Southern Africa)
● Continued focus on low-income countries and countries in sub-Saharan Africa (esp. Somalia,
Mozambique, Ethiopia) and low-income countries (e.g. Afghanistan and Syrian Arab
Republic)
● Still a strong supporter of the UN, especially the 'women, peace and security' agenda (40% of
Sweden's core contributions to multilaterals in 2019 went to the UN)
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SIDA - Cont’d
14. ● New 2030 strategy for the next nine years aiming to increase its efficiency as well as
strengthen and systematize the development, sharing, and use of research-based knowledge
in Norad.
● The new 2030 strategy focuses how to effectively achieve the UN Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). Norad plans to disburse funding more strategically, and its overall goal is that
the budget will function as a strategic tool for eliminating poverty, slow down the nature
and climate crises, and combat various forms of inequality.
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NORAD (Norway) Logo here
15. Recent strategic shifts:
● boost innovation in development assistance, creating a culture that is conducive to testing
out new ideas and expanding on existing good ones.
● Norad's Director, Bård Vegar Solhjell, said that to improve efficiency, Norad would likely want
to make fewer, larger agreements.
● Sectors likely to win support - digital public goods — such as digital learning materials,
improved access to weather and health information, and cash transfers — as well as more
transparent and efficient tax and fishing systems.
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NORAD (Norway) Logo here
16. ● Strengthening the status and rights of women and girls, with an emphasis on sexual and
reproductive health and rights.
● Sustainable economies and decent work, with an emphasis on innovations and the role of
women in the economy and female entrepreneurship.
● Education, peaceful and democratic societies, with an emphasis on equitable quality
education, improved tax systems and support for democracy and the rule of law.
● Climate change and natural resources, with an emphasis on strengthening adaptation
alongside mitigation of climate change, food security and water, meteorology and disaster
risk reduction, forests, energy and safeguarding biodiversity
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FORMIN (Finland)
17. ● Flight and migration, through the special initiative ‘Tackling root causes of displacement,
stabilizing host regions, supporting refugees’, BMZ allocated €475 million (US$532 million)
for this issue in 2021
● Climate change and renewable energy, with a pledge of €1.5 billion (US$1.7 billion) to the
Green Climate Fund (2020 to 2023); On 29 April, the GIZ became the first bilateral
development cooperation organisation in the world to be welcomed as an institutional
member of the NDC Partnership
● Agriculture and food security, e.g., through BMZ’s special initiative ‘ONE WORLD - No
Hunger’ with €525 million (US$588 million) in 2021
● Pandemic Preparedness and One Health is becoming a strengthened focus in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic
● The German government focus remains on the African continent focused on fostering
private investment and good governance and is advocating for a concerted EU-Africa Policy
at the EU level. (Marshall Plan for Africa)
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
18. Recent strategic shifts:
• No major impact from elections
• However, May 2020 launch of the BMZ 2030 strategy valid beyond the current legislative
term. Aimed to reform German development policy and concentrate its efforts on five key
areas which should transcend legislative periods:
a. Peace and societal cohesion
b. ONE WORLD - No hunger,
c. vocational training/ jobs,
d. climate/energy,
e. environmental protection and natural resources management;
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GIZ - Cont’d
19. Recent strategic shifts:
• Reduction of bilateral partner countries from 85 to 60
• In 2022, Germany will assume the G7 Presidency. Pandemic preparedness and prevention,
as well as health systems strengthening, are planned to be among Germany’s key priorities.
• In October of 2020, Germany adopted a new cross-ministerial global health strategy for
2020-2030, titled ’Responsibility – Innovation – Partnership: Shaping global health together’
to serve as the basis for Germany’s engagement in global health and SDG 3
• In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the German government has expanded its focus on
global health and pandemic preparedness. The BMZ established the ‘Global Health:
Pandemic prevention, one health’ sub-department and published a ‘One Health Strategy’ in
November 2020.
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GIZ - Cont’d
20. ● Foundations alliance (green energy
alliance)
● Banks and DFIs as well as VCs
● Corporate purpose & partnership
expenditure expected to triple by 2023
21. Training now free
MzN will make all services to non-profit
organisations subsidised and free of charge
by 2030.
Training already is free of charge.
Check out our blog and upcoming events on
our website:
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Merging an NGO –
Experience and Reality
9 December, 2-3 pm
Agile and Robustly Funded:
NGOs and International
Organizations Need New
Ways to Survive and Thrive
12 January, 2-3 pm
How can my (non-environmental)
NGO help in the fight against
climate change? – Part 2
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