Shift the Power


Shift the Power strives to empower ​and lift up communities to a more equal ​way of undertaking sustainable ​development. The movement seeks to ​replaces top-down model of traditional ​development with ‘people-led ​development’ approaches where people ​determine for themselves what is ​important to them. In 2016, the Global ​Fund for Community Foundations ​launched #ShiftThePower to amplify the ​role of community-led institutions – ​community foundations, and likeminded ​organisations to meaningfully participate ​in philanthropy and sustainable ​development.


Shift the Power is a call to question how ​development is done and seeks to ​provide working community-driven ​solutions.

What does ​Shift the Power

mean?

Shift the power is about changing the mindset on how development happens from the ​donor giving side and how communities receive development aid from the funders.


It is about questioning the status quo on how development initiatives are thought, ​designed, and delivered in the communities.


It is about questioning the current development models which perceive Global South as ​receivers of development aid from the Global North.


It is about changing the mindset that Global South can also be solution solvers – not a ​preserve of Global North.


Shifting the Power means empowering communities to know their value, to know their ​power, to know their resources, to know their culture, to know their skills so that those ​skills can be changed and become contributions. The solutions which can help us solve ​the challenges facing the world today.


Shifting these actions are not about changing he names in the donor languages to be ​such as co-creators, co-implementers and co-designers,


It is about action. It is about working with communities with tangible actions. It about ​empowering communities to know that they are equal partners in providing solutions to ​the challenges that are pressing the world today.


“ShiftThePower means changing mindsets on how development happens both at the ​donor (giving) side and community (receiving) side. It is about adding value,being flexible, ​responsive and innovative in development delivery. It is about giving power to ​communities to know their value, voice their aspirations and become resilient and ​prosperous. It is about taking a pause to cool off, reflect and ask about past, current and ​future development scenarios.”


Reclaiming the ​lost power of ​alternatives, ​diversity, and ​solidarity

As you settle after the 2023 ​#ShiftThePower Global Summit ​experience with 700 plus change ​makers in Bogotá, Colombia, the aside ​"Summit Communique" is here. It is ​dedicated to you who felt restless and ​vowed to reclaim the lost power of ​alternatives, diversity, and solidarity to ​create the world we want.


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Nguzo Africa partners provides technical and financial ​support towards the implementation of our strategy. ​We value our partners for their continued support.

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