1. Where’s the money?
Voices: Oxfam Link and Learn, 14
November 2012
Facilitator: Melanie Judge

2. Framing questions
• Where has the money gone?
• What can/should we be doing to keep it here?
• Do we need the money? What do we need it for?
• How do we show value for money?

3. Session process
• Unpacking the context (plenary)
What factors have influenced the changes in
donor/development funding
• Critical considerations and future actions (small
groups)
• Feedback, discussion and debate (plenary)

4. Context
• Global financial crisis
• Shift in perception (South Africa) and changed
donor priorities
• Disproportionate affect on advocacy initiatives
• Changed donor relationships/dynamics
• Over-reliance on foreign donors?
• Going local: unlocking resources from business,
individuals, the State?

5. Takes us beyond the money
question
• Why who we are and what we do matters?
• What is to be sustained, how and by whom?

6. Thinking critically
• Thinking differently about sustainability
• How we relate and with whom: communities,
movements, State, funders
• Defending the role of civil society: democracy
building, accountability and public
participation/agency
• Making the case for advocacy, human rights and
social justice organisations

7. What’s the change we are working
towards?

8. How do we growing impact and
demonstrate this, and to whom?

9. Balance internal and external
pressures/tensions/priorities….

10. Links to communities and movements for
change

11. Building organisations versus
building organising

12. New funding approaches,
relationship with money/resources

13. Where is the money?
• What contextual factors (internal and external to
your organisation) influence the current funding
environment?

14. Small group discussions
• What must we consider when thinking about the
sustainability of the work?
• What should we be doing? Who should be doing
it?