Civil Collective Annual Report 2020

2020
ANNUALREPORT
Contents
Team Leader's Note
Our Work
Our Strategy
CoVID Response
Grantee Spotlight
People
2021 Targets
Financials
Annual Report 2020

Our
Building a world where local
organizations and communities
advocate for their needs and
Vision local resources are mobilized to

accelerate local initiatives.
It's a pleasure to be sharing with you our annual report for 2020. By the time
you read this report, we shall be celebrating 3 years of pioneering a grassroots
grantmaker, working to shift the power of local development into the hands
of local grassroots institutions. 2020 started off like any other year, only to be
faced with a massive disruption caused by COVID -19. Whilst being a complex
and challenging year, we cannot underestimate the unlimited opportunities
the pandemic presented. From being able to reach our partners remotely, to
growing our portfolio, we can say we did not let a good pandemic go to waste.
Today we have a strong team, a strong understanding of the potential for
community philanthropy, and are poised to advance the theory and practice
in Uganda.
All the above would not have been possible without the generosity of our
partners and supporters internally and beyond. We are indebted to our board
of advisors for their constant support and tireless counsel.
As we look to 2021, our north star will be; ensuring that community
philanthropy is widely appreciated as a pathway to authentic community-led
development in Uganda. Relatedly, we want to promote local giving and
support corporate and individuals to engage in organized giving.
Thank you and enjoy your reading!
Emmanuel Kivanyuma Waiswa

Team Leader
Welcome
Our Work
Civil Collective is a Ugandan social Building the capacity of grassroots civil
enterprise, a community foundation that society, we channel our efforts, talents,
leverages grantmaking, capacity and networks towards supporting early-
building, and networking to catalyze stage and growing organizations as well
grassroots agency. Our mission is to as village-level homegrown informal
support the development, practice, and initiatives. Grassroots Organizations are
adoption of community philanthropy as a often neglected by donors due to
means to community-led development. "capacity" gaps and yet they present the
We strongly believe that communities needed pathway to local people and
have assets and resources but these are their creativity and innovation. We
often underlooked by outsiders. bridge the gap in capacity by offering
By using small grants, we hope to unlock tailored support in operations and
the potential of grassroots institutions to financial management, including
take control over their own development. business development support.
Our Strategy
We are a grassroots development fund, that leverages grantmaking, community
philanthropy, and capacity support to advance community-led development. Our
long‐term ambition is to advocate for grassroots-led development, by ensuring that local
informal and formal civil society can access the financial and capacity resources they
need to deliver high-impact locally relevant programming. Through small grants, we
hope to support communities build social capital, and be civically engaged.
COVID Response
When the pandemic broke out in March last year, our main strategy was driven by the
need to support vulnerable groups and communities to respond to the pandemic. We
moved to mobilize resources that would support our local actors and partners to
respond to the social-economic impacts of the pandemic. It's critical that grassroots
institutions are supported to respond to the needs of their constituents. These are
usually the first point of contact for local people and their ability to respond effectively,
allows for more trust and collaboration.
The main objectives of our response plan included the following;
To offer emergency response and build community capacity to respond to

coronavirus spread through health promotion.
To build community capacity to deal with social-economic impacts of the Corona
Virus on community solidarity and livelihoods.
Sustain operations to continue supporting communities build strong ties, while
developing assets, trust, and networks to spur collective action.
We absolutely had no source of
income to sustain any internal
operations during the pandemic.
The grant enabled us to maintain
progress, as we tried to look for more
sustainable ways"
Gloria Nalunga
President
AIESEC In Uganda
Grantee Spotlight
Grantmaking is one of our strategic interventions to catalyze collective action
and unlocking grassroots agency. Our process of grant-making is flexible and
responsive to grantee needs than advancing our agenda as a grantmaker.
Overall, the grants are aimed at helping to unlock the local potential to mobilize
and develop assets, build group dynamics and respond to locally relevant issues,
and supporting the building of social capital for continued collective action. We
do not believe in competitive grant-making and our grants allow for more
flexibility and responsiveness to grantee priorities.
Our People
We are a community of passionate community advocates. We did not
start out to become a large NGO, as we treasure our freedom more
than anything. We do not want to fit anyone’s box, but rather be
flexible and responsive to communities and their needs
Emmanuel Waiswa - Team Leader

Patrick Jude Mugisha - Philanthropy
Karoline Ceasar - Advisor
Birungi Jackline - Field Staff
Joanita Babirye - Legal, Finance and Compliance
Oliver Mirembe - Field Staff
2021 Targets
Enterprise Fund
In partnership with Okere City, a

community-driven initiative in
North Eastern Uganda, we hope to
pilot an enterprise fund, from which
community members can borrow
for enterprise development.
Youth Exchange
Community Innovation Centre
We have secured property in Iganga, in Eastern Uganda,
where we hope to establish a community innovation
center. The center will allow for community members to
have access to resources including; a health information
post, training room, co-working space, and a library.
Convening on Local Giving

We will convene in-country round table discussions on
how to accelerate local giving and community
philanthropy. The goal will be to bring together multi-
Young people are a critical resource
sectoral players to develop a coordinated action plan to
and we will engage youth in Uganda
promote local generosity and giving in Uganda.
and Tanzania, through a youth
exchange program. The program
shall be in partnership with the
Tanzania Youth Coalition (TYC).
Financials
CAPACITY
ASSETS
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Annual Report 2020

Vision local resources are mobilized to

Thank you and enjoy your reading!

Emmanuel Kivanyuma Waiswa

The main objectives of our response plan included the following;

To offer emergency response and build community capacity to respond to

Emmanuel Waiswa - Team Leader

In partnership with Okere City, a

Convening on Local Giving

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