Civil Society Now
A digital platform that helps local civil society organisations access practical, locally relevant knowledge, tools, and support. It brings together funding guidance, ready-to-use templates, learning opportunities and country-specific resources in one place.
Challenge
Local civil society organisations often spend significant time searching for reliable guidance and recreating documents and processes that exist elsewhere. Available resources may also be too generic, difficult to access, or need adapting to the local language and context.
Solution
Civil Society Now brings that support into one trusted place. Each country site holds curated resources in the local language — drawn from a shared global library and from local sources, so organisations find guidance that fits their context, not generic material they have to adapt. A common English site with ready-to-use templates and webinar recordings underpins this initiative. Access is members-only, and organisations can be assigned to tracks suited to their needs.
Key features
Curated resource library
A members-only library of guidance and resources tailored to the local civil society context — national policies, research, and useful external materials, in local languages.
Ready-to-use templates
Adaptable templates for HR, finance, governance, M&E, risk-management, funding applications, and other organisational needs — ready to adapt instead of starting from scratch.
Webinars and learning hub
Recorded webinars, training sessions, and learning materials available on demand, so members can build practical skills at their own pace.
Product overview
- Category
- Ready to Use
- Devices
- Desktop
- Users
- INGOs supporting local civil society — they can offer the platform to their CSO partners or to CSOs in their civil society strengthening programmes. End users: local CSO partners and members.
- Tech stack
- Database: MySQL Frontend: Wordpress Backend: Wordpress