Unit 7 Organisational sustainability and Resource Mobilisation Flashcards

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The 4 dimensions of sustainability for NGOs’s (Cannon, 2002)

+ 2 tasks (Fowler, 2000)

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  • Benefit Sustainability
  • Community Sustainability
  • Organisational Sustainability
    > Resource Mobilitsation (Fowler, 2000)
    > Adaptive Viability (Fowler, 2000)
  • Financial Sustainability
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5 basic requirements for CSO to be effective and sustainable (Holloway, 2001)

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  1. Good programmes (high quality deliverables)
  2. Good management - efficient use of resources
  3. Commitment to sustainability
  4. Financial resources to support 1-3
  5. local support
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RM can be optained from following resources

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  1. Northern Governments (official aid, bi/multi-lateral, tax base)
  2. Southern Governments (ODA, tax)
  3. International NGO’s
  4. The market (corporate, NGO enterprises)
  5. Citizens (gifts, support)
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Quality assessment of financial resources

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  1. conditions and expectations of the giver
  2. methods of allocation (timescale)
  3. level of admin burden
  4. predictability and reliability
  5. Continuity and duration
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Available income streams for NGO’s (NCVO)

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  1. Gift Economy - often unrestricted - philantropic
  2. Grant Funding - often restricted - for specific outputs/outcomes
  3. Structured market - payment for goods/services
  4. open market - trading
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Non-financial Resources (RM)

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  • volunteer skilled labour
  • goods and materials
  • experienced seconded professional personell
  • access to public policy fora
  • access to service provided for non-profit org
  • champions

(Fowler, 2000)(Holloway, 2001)

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7
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3 different categories of international donors

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  1. multilateral agencies
  2. bilateral funding agencies
  3. iNGO’s
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8
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The difficulties of grant funding - related to dependency

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  1. Scale of funding
  2. Scope of funding
  3. Timescale
  4. Donor dependency
  5. Loss of independence
  6. Delays in decision making
  7. Cash flow problems
  8. Burdensome requirements
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9
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The difficulties of grant funding for projects

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  1. Activity focus
  2. Lack of flexibility
  3. Time-consuming
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10
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4 forms of funding mechanisms:

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  • project based funding
  • programme based funding
  • block grants
  • framework agreements
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11
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Strategic delinquency

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an NGO will undertake whatever the donors are prepared to fund - often a sympton of deeper ills in the NGO

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12
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Alternative (to donors) sources of income for NGOs

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  1. Foundations and trusts
  2. local and national Governments
  3. individual giving
  4. business/corporate sponsorship
  5. capital reserves and endowments
  6. production & trade
  7. social investment
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13
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different types of foundations:

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  1. private (example: Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation)
  2. community (example: kenya community development foundation)
  3. corporate (example: mastercard foundation)
  4. government-initiated (example: lotterywest)
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14
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How to generate reserve capital?

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  1. maximise unrestricted income
  2. maximise the potential of restricted funds, to free up unrestricted funds
  3. maximise project income, so that projects require little or no internal subsidy
  4. minimise controllable expenditure, so that expediture is reduced
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15
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Corpus fund

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build capital reserves enough to generate some income from the interest

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16
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(Holloway, 2001) 4 strategies for income generation from production and trade:

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  1. building income with the community (micro credit schemes)
  2. cost recovery (through payment for service)
  3. enterprises linked to the NGO’s mission
  4. enterprises not linked to the NGO’s mission
17
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Reasons why an RM strategy is important

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  1. limitations of donor funding (short term, ristricted)
  2. risks of disappearing donor funding
  3. focus on quality (not quantity)
18
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RM strategy should not only focus on generating resources but also to:

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  • reduce risks
  • avoid distrurbance and disruption of activities
  • avoid interference in the management of the NGO activities
  • reduce overall dependency