Civil society Organisations (CSOs) including Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) say dwindling donor support is crippling their efficiency which is having devastating impact on many Ghanaians.
These groups are gradually losing out on donor funding as many of them are unable to undertake critical poverty intervention programs across the country.
The accountability and resource pooling organisation, STAR Ghana bemoaned that ordinary Ghanaians are those who risk reeling under the development.
Speaking to Ultimate News, Star Ghana’s steering committee chairperson, Dr. Esther Ofei Aboagye said given the ways in which CSOs and NGOs worked over the years, being dependent on external sources of funding to sustain their efforts “it is very evident threat that indeed, they don’t know where their next sources of funding is coming from.”
It is therefore important for the CSOs and NGOs to restrategize to ensure their efficacy.
She said: “If you look at what is going on all of the world, people are exploring new ways of finding money including crowd funding, forging partnership with academia, the private sector and other actors.”
“So, it behoves on Civil Society organisations to look for ways in which they can ingeniously package their issues to be relevant to all of these other partners,” she added.
In order to be financially independent, Dr. Ofei Aboagye charged the CSOs and the NGOs in Ghana to adopt strategies deployed by political parties across the world to raise funds.
“If we are relevant and hold our strategies around philanthropy and all of these kinds of things, we will be able to raise some of these resources,” she said.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
