The Foundation for Civil Society (FCS) was founded by SDC and DFiD, with the aim to improve the capacity of civil society in participation and service delivery. Today, FCS is an independent Tanzanian non-for-profit organization providing grants and capacity building services to civil society organisations (CSOs) to support them in enhancing the effectiveness of their engagement in the development processes and poverty reduction initiatives. It is funded by seven Development Partners and is one of the largest support mechanisms for capacity building and grant support to CSOs in Tanzania. This credit proposal presents the Strategic Plan of FCS for 2009–2013. FCS works with a comprehensive logical framework and has recently gathered baseline data which will allow the monitoring of outcomes in a sector commonly considered as difficult to monitor.  The overall goal of SDC’s financial support to FCS is to support Tanzania to achieve its 2025 vision for growth, reduction of poverty, improved governance and better quality of life for all its citizens.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner International or foreign NGO
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    4’100’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    4’016’756
Project phases	Phase 4 01.12.2014 - 31.12.2018   (Completed) Phase 3 01.10.2010 - 31.12.2013   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNICATIONS
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Decentralisation and support to subnational government (incl. accountability) Human rights Information and communication technology (ICT)
  Cross-cutting topics	Human rights The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes. The project supports partner organisation improvements as a priority
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral, core contributions to NGOs and other private bodies / PPPs
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Core contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F02689