Publication: Community Foundations - The Relevance for Social Funds in Urban Areas : The Tanzania Social Action Fund Experience
Date
2008-02
ISSN
Published
2008-02
Author(s)
Manjolo, Ida
Likwelile, Servacius B
Kamagenge, Amadeus M
Mesik, Juraj
Owen, Daniel
Abstract
This newsletter concerns the relevance
for social funds in Urban Areas. Social funds face a common
challenge of sustaining the community capacities that are
built and investments that are supported beyond the
relatively short lifespan of external funding. For long-term
sustainability, external funding needs to be replaced by a
steady flow of domestic revenue. The Community foundation
(CF) approach offers a number of advantages for urban work.
Community foundations are independent organizations that
provide grants to support a variety of projects identified
and implemented by local residents. A CF does not replace
the scale of resources and national reach achieved by social
funds. But it can provide a partial answer to the
sustainability challenge in some large and medium-size urban
areas, where it can mobilize local resources and sustain
social dynamism and participation in broad areas of
development work.
Citation
“Manjolo, Ida; Likwelile, Servacius B; Kamagenge, Amadeus M; Mesik, Juraj; Owen, Daniel. 2008. Community Foundations - The Relevance for Social Funds in Urban Areas : The Tanzania Social Action Fund Experience. Social Funds Innovation Notes; Vol. 5, No. 1. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/1653669e-5fe6-532c-82c8-45acb5a28778 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”