The donor landscape is changing, priorities are shifting, and funding opportunities are shrinking. As we witness the mushrooming of local and international NGOs, the competition for limited resources continues to intensify. Organizations that are not able to position themselves well are likely to lose relevance in the short run.
Organizations must impress joint and strategic approaches with radical transformation in the way we think and act. The workshop will illuminate the landscape of development partners, shifting financing priorities, trending headlines, and strategic positioning. Explore organization opportunities to attract domestic. regional, international and private projects and programs.
The purpose of this training is to equip your team with skills and capabilities to enable them position your organization at the top of every donor’s mind. The workshop will realize the following objectives and outputs;
Specific Objectives
- To demonstrate a good understanding of financing flows in the organization structure and logically incorporating country, including public, private, national and international sources, to strategically leverage them for sustainable development projects.
- To sufficiently demonstrate familiarity with frameworks and tools to develop partnerships with the private sector.
- To acquire the ability to articulate and implement joint resource mobilization for sustainable development
- To adequately learn innovations and best practices, behavioral, insights for financing mobilization to provide impactful programming
- To equip staff responsible for resource mobilization/fund raising with requisite tools, skills and approaches to create conditions for successful resource mobilization/ fundraising, to expand access to diverse sources of donor resources and overall improvement of long term organization resource sustainability.
- To build/enhance the confidence and skills of those responsible for resource mobilization/fund raising to design and implement results-oriented and measurable resource mobilization strategies to fund programs.
- Identify practical strategies for planning and running impactful resource mobilization & fund raising campaigns.
- Enhanced capacity among staff to provide more effective leadership in the Resource Mobilization function.
- Demonstrate competences to evaluate and audit RM outcomes
Expected Outputs
By the end of the training, the participants should have developed the following ,
- Each organization specific resource mobilization strategy
- Each organization will have developed a pitch, key messages and key donor communication tools
- Each organization will have an action plan on how to implement the Resource mobilization strategy developed during the workshop
- Each organization will walk out with a donor tracking tool and partner analysis tool
- Each organization will walk out with model/ product validation tool
Summary Course Content
- Introduction/Overview Of Resource Challenges Facing Organizations/Institutions
- Organization Legacy & Organization Strategic Priorities
- Understanding challenges in how organizations mobilize resources and how staff members, contribute to this process.
- Creating a practical and solid resource mobilization plan
- Unpacking the complex donor landscape and understanding different funding opportunities, instruments, and modalities
- Frameworks and tools for developing partnerships with the private sector.
- Understanding Resource Mobilization Systems, The Donor Environment, Donor Characteristics
- How to assess and understand financing flows at the Domestic level (country)
- Unlocking innovative financing for sustainable development and financing
- Key Observations And Elements In Formulating Convincing Proposals For Resource Mobilization
- Strategic Models For Sustainable Resource Mobilization
- Leveraging The Role Of New Media In Resource Mobilization
- Strategies To Map Out Potential And Critical Supporters And Donors
- Follow-up and Cementing Relationships in RM
- Processes to Monitor & Measure the Results/Success of Resource Mobilization Activities
- Fundraising in 2025: Unleashing the Power of AI in Organization Resource Sustainability
- Implementing resource mobilization strategy
- Key messages and key donor communication tools
- Action Planning-What does all this mean for my organization?