It is High Time Civil Society Looked to Local Resources https://sustainabilityincivilsociety.blogspot.com/2021/01/it-is-high-time-civil-society-looked-to.html
- January 18, 2021
In a democratic environment, civil society voices peoples' issues and acts as a mediator between the people and the State. It plays a major catalyst in improving the performance of government programmes and in giving fillip to the impact of state policy. Apart from promoting and strengthening democracy, it also contributes to economic development and poverty reduction. So in the current scenario, civil society has to enable itself to continue working as an effective facilitator, collaborator and enabler.
it has become vital that CSOs look to Local Resource Mobilization as a mechanism to ensure continuity of activities and programme.
Roadmap for successful LRM: Strategy for Local Resource Mobilization (LRM), Identifying resources available and needed for programme interventions,
How the resources would be tapped, Develop timeline and timeframe, Identifying capable leaders: Develop a channel: Team building:
As Local Resource Mobilization (LRM) is a team work, the concept and objective of the LRM must be very clear from bottom to top
What motivates community to contribute?
• It is important to understand the motive behind contributing in cash/kind for the village level intervention. My own experience is that if the intervention is of their choice/priority then they will contribute.
• Community would be eager to contribute if transaction/recording process is kept transparent.
• Everybody in the village can contribute evenly/uniformly. So ‘what’ they contribute should not matter but ‘whether’ they have contributed is important.
So, to sum up and conclude, if civil society want its rich legacy to continue unhindered, it must go back to the basics- motivate people to part with their resources for the poor and the underprivileged. Local resource mobilization is certainly a way ahead.