NSSC PUBLICATION - Research Series #2: Financial Sustainability and Funding Diversification: The Challenge for Indonesian NGOs, by Ben Davis

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Like the NGO sector globally, NGOs in Indonesia face an increasingly challenging funding landscape that threatens their survival and ability to achieve their goals for social change. International donors are reducing their support for Indonesian NGOs. Donor programs have not meaningfully supported NGOs to build alternative resource mobilisation strategies and, despite some notable exceptions, local NGOs have not been able to access funding from emerging donors and private philanthropic organisations or develop creative strategies to access new sources for funding. This brief assesses the current NGO funding landscape, takes stock of efforts to adapt to this changing context and suggests some strategies for NGO directors, funders and the government