The Road to the SDGs

– Partnership — This principle requires IsDB to introduce value- added partnerships through a network of developers and non- traditional partners willing to work with IsDB as partners. – Selectivity — IsDB will partner and work with the primary, intermediary and tertiary level CSOs carrying out humanitarian, economic and social development interventions in MCs and non-MCs. – Solidarity and inclusiveness — The Policy adheres to Islamic principles and practices to provide the underpinning values that permit IsDB to support humanitarian and development interventions in its MCs and non- MCs through CSOs. X As a facilitator, IsDB will play an advocacy role by: – Bringing together key actors and CSOs to support hard-to-reach populations – Promoting participation and representation in international forums of CSOs – Advocating the establishment of national development policies to encourage CSOs’ participation in the economic and social development interventions of MCs. POTENTIAL IMPACTS X The Policy aims to achieve the following: – Provide general guidance to IsDB to engage more effectively with civil society – Encourage dialogue through attendance and exchange of CSOs with IsDB’s Annual Meetings, Regional Forums other events – Enable the sharing of information on policies, programmes and projects that increase IsDB’s outreach to engage with targeted CSOs that might not otherwise have access to these resources – Facilitate engagement with CSOs through the MCPS – Create an engagement modality that conveys partnership and the achievement of mutually agreed objectives, in line with the P5P notion of IsDB as a network of developers – Pay special attention to how international CSOs in fragile or conflict situations can manage support for local CSOs, which are often relatively under-resourced – Provide targeted CSOs with capacity building support that leaves them better off in terms of capability and sustainability than before their engagement with IsDB – In the longer term, build the capacity of CSOs with a regional mandate and coverage. INVESTMENT X The Policy will adopt a range of options for mobilising resources to support IsDB’s commitment to engage with and, where appropriate, finance civil society engagement actions (Policy Pillar 4). These include: – Using existing and proposed IsDB financing instruments, innovative and non-traditional financing mechanisms – Developing a resource mobilisation plan that analyses and maps the various financing sources (e.g. traditional and non-traditional donors, and international funds) – Encouraging MCs’ governments to include selected CSOs in IsDB-funded programmes and operations – Pursuing several other major avenues for resource mobilisation, such as crowdfunding platforms – Deploying other IsDB financing instruments such as its NGO Programme, APIF, ISFD, Transform Fund and several trust funds – Considering innovative financing mechanisms under the IsDB and ISFD NGO Transformation Programme, such as Zakat, private sector financing and philanthropic engagements. C I V I L S O C I E T Y E N G A G E M E N T P O L I C Y The Policy recognises the different types of CSOs and the diverse needs, trajectories and stages of development of the 57 MCs and Muslim communities in non-MCs [ 111 ] T H E R O A D T O T H E S D G s | P R O G R E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T S