In this age of ours, there is the situation of highly competitive effort to access donor funding, and especially in our local context, the lack of or limited access to government funding. The most effective way to overcome this challenge is to build extensive and stronger partnerships and networks to enhance access to funding and technical opportunities. By initiating and building on our local resource mobilisation strategies we can leverage external funding and technical opportunities to strengthen our resource base. Given that our approach is process-oriented and not project-oriented, the need for a sustainable funding and technical support is fundamental to our mission.
This can be achieved through the following strategies:
- Priority 1: Building partnerships with local and international agencies – We will develop policies on partnerships and networking, and marketing strategies to inform our actions in pursuit of achieving this goal. Areas we can pursue partnership in includes: livelihoods, research, DRR and climate change, capacity building (institutional and communities), disability and social inclusion, public-private partnership, etc.
- Priority 2: Exchanges – We will organize local exchanges and cooperate with our global network to participate in international exchanges. Knowledge gaps and ‘looseness’ remains a fundamental challenge among the federation, ranging from the savings groups to the national leadership. Traditional training workshops remain the primary approach to capacity building, which has often led to knowledge accumulation but limited or lack of practice, thereby undermining the possibility of optimal progression of the capacity of the federation. Nevertheless, peer-to-peer exchange visits to share and learn have become effective ways to building efficient knowledge and capacity application. We will develop policies around local and international exchanges so as to define strategic frame of FEDURP and PSO participation in both local and international exchanges, with a focus on women. Fundamentally, the policy is to emphasize “exchanges for knowledge and practice”.