Strategic Pillars

This pillar is focused on building organisations of civil society in the country through strategies that include financial grants and other capacity development interventions tailored to Zambian CSOs and CBOs that exist with varying capacity levels. We will use this support as an opportunity to challenge our CSO and CBO partners to critically interrogate the traditional foreign aid paradigm and influence them to integrate community-led development and community philanthropy into their operations.

Community-led change is about communities taking control of and leading their own development. We will support communities in both rural and urban areas to realise their rights as per the constitution of the country and hold government and the private sector accountable. This goes hand in hand with supporting communities to unlock their local financial and non-financial assets to leverage more institutional forms of giving as collective investments in their development. Through our support we envision communities working in collaboration with government, business, and civil society to address their needs and realise their aspirations. We envision communities being involved in helping to realise the SDGs.

Pillar three is about encouraging and advocating the growth and scope of philanthropic giving in the country across all sectors, including community savings and giving. Here we take on the role of field builders to help expand, deepen, and sustain the field of philanthropy, both vertical (formalised and institutional giving) and horizontal (community level giving). This is to advance community-led change in the country and contributions towards realising the SDGs. Being positioned at the interface between formal (vertical) and informal giving (horizontal), we will support the growth in community giving through leveraging private and institutionalised forms of giving by high-net-worth individuals, corporate social investment (CSI), government, foundations, trusts and donors. In so doing, we will encourage co-investment in community-led change and the growth of community foundations in the country.