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Resource
Mobilisation training visits |
The Resource Mobilisation
Programme of the Lesotho Council of NGOs has been conducting
training visits to individual NGOs in the period between January to
May 2006.
The purpose of training individual NGOs is to ensure that quality
and effectiveness in understanding resource mobilization is improved
and to assist NGOs to determine priority areas of intervention in
relation to their core mandates. The primitive manner of calling of
NGOs to a one week workshop on resource mobilization has been done
away with because it has proved ineffective. The representatives of
the organisation would normally not report back to the organisation
the proceedings and the expectations after the trainings to the
organisation and as a result the process of developing proposals
would not happen. It is against this reason that the new training
approach includes all those concerned in resource mobilization i.e
programme officers, Directors and Committee members. The overarching
reason is to make the process more inclusive and to ensure that all
concerned parties take part in the process and to develop a
framework for them to start developing project proposals.
The Civil Society Organisations in Lesotho are faced with many
challenges with regard to resource mobilization. Most organisations
implement their programs with limited financial resources
contributed by donor community; today this avenue is declining hence
a call for strategic positioning of organisations. It is noted that
capacity building initiatives are being undertaken for the civil
society organizations to ensure that they develop sound resource
mobilization strategies however, challenges still exist which
requires a change in a manner in which Lesotho Council of NGOs as an
umbrella body for NGOs in Lesotho has been providing capacity
building initiatives to the member NGOs.
The organizations which have been visited between January and May
2006 are the following:
Lesotho Homemakers Association;
Khathang Tema Baitsukuli;
Lesotho Womens Institute;
Boseele Association;
Lesotho Durham Link;
Centre for Empowerment and Social Analysis.
Lesotho Homemakers Association and Centre for Empowerment and Social
Analysis have both completed their project proposals while the other
remaining NGOs are being mentored to develop their proposals.
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