Diakonia contribution agreement 2021-2025 (CSO strategy)

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Reprogrammed funds to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 Diakonia is a non-profit development organization with work grounded in Christian values. Diakonia's application entitled “Changing contexts, supporting change, transforming societies”, was received by Sida in October 2020. Below the application is referred to as the CSO-program. The application seeks continued cooperation with Sida for the years 2021-2025 under the CSO-strategy. The total budget for the CSO-program amounts to approximately MSEK 899. The grant applied for from Sida amounts to MSEK 815. The CSO program will be implemented through 24 country programs and about 160 local partners across Africa, Asia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America, as well as through a global program. Diakonia's partners constitute religious and non-religious networks and civil society organizations, human rights defenders, coalitions and alliances. In real terms these are women's organizations, groups representing indigenous peoples, movements for people with functional variations and youth movements. Diakonia will continue to work with a focus on democracy, human rights and gender equality. Three organizational transformations are planned. The first of the three transformations is to depart all work from contextual opportunities/challenges, processes and their new theory of change. This change is a departure from previous thematically steered programs. The move, according to Diakonia, will enable increased flexibility in how they can respond to changing developments in the contexts where they work. The second organizational transformation is that the organization will work on the basis of feminist principles. According to Diakonia, this shift introduces a political dimension to the work on equality, which in turn strengthens their continued work in this area and the ambition to achieve gender equality. The third transformation is to broaden the basis for collaborations and enter into new types of collaborations, for example with new actors for change. An increased focus on Diakonia as a learning organization and an increased focus on aid effectiveness, where core support will be a point of departure for support, are reinforcements that are planned in the business. There shall also be a clearer link between core support and capacity building, a greater focus on innovation and on the development of partners' skills.

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• Beslut om insats "Diakonia insatsavtal 2021-2025, CSO strategin" - pdf
• Avtal om bidrag mellan Sida och Diakonia under CSO strategin 2021-2025 - pdf

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