In search of ‘Shift the Power', 'Red Nose Day’
If you ever wanted to understand the expression “shift the power” and ‘red nose day” the place to be was the Shift the Power (#StP) learning and convening event in Accra, from 9th-12th October, where a search for the definition of #StP and ‘Red Nose Day’ unpacked the phrases.
A rare fundraising strategy to find, ‘Red Nose Day’ is an annual fundraising campaign created by philanthropic organisation, Comic Relief to end child poverty throughout the world. Red Nose Day is all about making a difference in the lives of other people. The money raised goes towards helping so many life-changing projects in the United Kingdom and across the world.
Participants during the convening
The four-day conversation on “Shifting Power in Development Practice” saw anchor partners implementing the #StP in Ghana (STAR-Ghana Foundation & the West Africa Civil Society Institute, WACSI), Malawai (Tilitonse Foundation) and Zambia (Zambia Governance Foundation), Comic Relief, and a bilateral organisation - the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, UK), come together for a productive meeting at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.
They reviewed the programme, shared knowledge, and strategised on better ways of working.
In Ghana, the #StP is being championed through a programme dubbed “Civil Society Strengthening Programme” (CSSP-#StP) as an enabling long term investment support for civil society in their diversity–organised and informal groups, think tanks, community-based organisations, among others.
The CSSP-#StP is an eight-year programme being implemented by STAR-Ghana Foundation and WACSI, with funding from Comic Relief and the FCDO, aims to provide long term support to Civil Society Actors (CSAs) in Ghana, contributing to their resilience, responsiveness, and effectiveness in delivering the priorities of their constituents.
The programme aims to provide long term support to CSAs in Ghana, contributing to their resilience, responsiveness, and effectiveness in delivering the priorities of their constituents.
It seeks to build institutional resilience of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Ghana by providing a more progressive, negotiated, participatory and widely owned solution to social development work.
