Our Methodology

Delivered by Humentum in partnership with UN Women, the Capacity Strengthening for Civil Society Organizations in Afghanistan supported 40 women-led and gender-focused CSOs to build the skills, systems, and leadership needed to sustain and grow their work.

The program began by building understanding of the practical gaps facing organizations operating in a complex and high-risk environment, identifying what must change across core areas including financial management, human resources, operations, and risk management. We then designed responses through a structured combination of webinars, group coaching, and access to ongoing learning resources, including equipping participants with hands-on capacity in proposal writing, monitoring and evaluation, and organizational governance. By generating momentum across a cohort of peer organizations and extending what works through shared resources and collective reflection, we helped women-led CSOs develop the confidence and capability to navigate change and sustain their impact.

Weaving Resilience is a four-year initiative accompanying civil society organizations across Southern Africa as they move from surviving to thriving.

Working with both established and grassroots organizations, the program builds understanding of financial management and governance challenges, identifies what must change, and designs practical responses through assessments, training, coaching, consultancy, and peer learning cohorts.

Since 2022, the program has reached more than 500 organizations — generating momentum, extending what works, and helping organizations develop the financial systems, governance practices, and adaptive capacity they need to navigate complex change with confidence.

Designed and delivered by Papyrus and Humentum, the Capacity Accompaniment Program worked with 140 organizations to build their institutional strength.

Rather than an audit-style approach, the program began by building understanding of each organization’s context and helping NGOs identify their own priorities such as naming what must change in their systems, leadership, governance, and operational effectiveness. From there, we designed practical responses through facilitated self-assessments, coaching, consultancy, training, and peer learning, with co-created action plans ensuring each organization received support tailored to their needs.

By generating momentum through hands-on accompaniment and extending what works across a cohort of peers, the program helped organizations develop the practical tools and internal capacity to thrive long after the grant ended.

Humentum’s Financial Sustainability Capacity Development Program accompanied 112 organizations in building the financial resilience needed to sustain their work beyond OSF funding.

The program began by building understanding of common challenges across participants; including over-reliance on donor funding, limited reserves, and gaps in strategic planning and identifying what must change for organizations to secure their long-term futures. Over the course of just over a year, we designed practical responses through a combination of training, coaching, and tailored consultancy, with organizations able to opt into different levels of support based on their needs and readiness.

By generating momentum through hands-on application and extending what works across a cohort of peers, we helped participants develop concrete tools, such as financing strategies and policies, to move from donor dependency to durable financial sustainability.