The Executive Director of STAR-Ghana Foundation, Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu, has urged civil society to adopt a double-edged approach in their advocacy work.
He said their work must not just focus on reporting to align with the objectives and requirements of their donors but also geared towards development effectiveness.
According to Alhaji Tanko, civil society actors often force themselves to pick up positives, where perhaps it might have been more useful for them if they focused on the challenges.
“We are always focusing on what has worked because that is what the donor wants to hear. But if we do that, we lose sight of very important lessons. What hasn’t worked, what didn’t work, why didn’t it work? How do we use that moving forward.
“Donors don’t incentivise that type of learning, so we go through all kinds of concoctions to glean some results. As we move forward, we should be clear on what we want to learn or else we will go through endless learning workshops and not much coming out of it,” he said during a STAR-Ghana Foundation end of phase learning event for grant partners under the Gender Rights and Empowerment programme (G-REP), with funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), at Aburi in the Eastern Region.
He challenged civil society organisations to move beyond learning for contractual purposes, to learning beyond donor demands and for development effectiveness.
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