RESISTIRE factsheet: Transformative Funding: A Pathway for Creative and Effective Crisis Response

The RESISTIRÉ research has demonstrated that civil society organisations (CSOs) played an essential role in responding to and managing the COVID-19 pandemic as a crisis, particularly in terms of addressing the needs of the most vulnerable groups and mitigating intersectional and gendered inequalities. Yet the lack of secure, flexible, and sustainable funding interrupted and in some cases hampered these vital efforts. As Europe and the world face multiple and intersecting crises (health, war, energy, food security, environmental degradation, drought, fires, earthquakes, gender-based violence), it has become all the more imperative to design funding schemes that support CSO resilience and enable rapid and effective civic response to crises. This requires a shift in funding schemes towards participatory, transformative, flexible, long-term, capacity-building funding.