Give The Power to Ukrainian NGOs

This is an ongoing advocacy project which started in August 2022 with the Open Letter “If Not Now, When”.

Our goal is to achieve 25% of localisation in Ukraine till 2025

What is localisation?

Localisation of international resources is a process of recognising, respecting and strengthening the leadership by local civil society in directing international funds, in order to better address the needs of populations and to strengthen local actors in their ability to respond to crises and develop civil society.

Russian full-invasion uncovered a lot of insecurities that local NGOs are facing in front of international actors. The shocking reality is that the whole year of the war, while local organizations are holding the greatest part of humarian response, didn’t change the fact that only 1% of UN funds went directly to local actors.

Check this video to learn more about our purpose:

Localisation in Ukraine. Why should Ukrainian NGOs speak for themselves on international plenary?

Do you want to contribute to positive changes for Ukrainian NGOs?

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Contact information

For all questions about project, feel free to contact the coordinator - k.soliar@philanthropy.com.ua

We are open for cooperation!

Deadline for applications: 04.05.2023

News and events

Help young people change the country: recruitment of coordinators of Youth Initiative Banks! Establish a Youth Initiative Bank (YIB), a unique model of youth engagement in civil society that works in 36 countries.Young people learn how to identify and prioritise community needs, fundraising, communications and PR, and gain skills that they can use in choosing their future profession.How does the YBI work? The Youth Coordinator gathers a group of active young people aged 14-25. Together, they learn the basic principles of Youth Initiative Banks (YIBs) and hold a grant competition among projects of other young people in the community throughout the year.

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What #ShiftThePower means to us To #ShiftThePower community and international auditory, We are the National Network of Local Philanthropy Development, a Ukrainian community foundation support organization working on shifting the power in Ukraine through working with international funders to advocate the localization process. We had a chance to participate in.For Ukraine, ShiftThePower is about surviving. At present, we are dependent on international aid - humanitarian, economic, and military. Shift The Power for us is to have global solidarity, considering our context and respect for our fight for independence and democratic values. For sure, it's also about local resources. And in the past two years, Ukrainians have collected 2,3 billion US dollars only with cash just for supporting our military. But we are in a media world where you can pay to create any type of news. What Russia does is pay a lot to some social opinion leaders who are not local communities but have the recognition and power to influence bigger donors, states, and people's mindsets in other countries. So, shifting the power is about amplifying and investing in the voice of locals.

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