The Road to the SDGs

X Taking an innovative approach, the platform’s Impact working model has six dimensions: – Innovate — Facilitating and supporting innovative ideas that have the potential to scale up and increase humanitarian development and build resilience – Mobilise resources — Using cutting-edge flexible financing mechanisms, such as crowdfunding and Islamic social financing, to build partnerships across a range of avenues to meet critical causes and build a sustainable source of support for vulnerable groups – Promote — Branding and packaging CSOs’ impactful ideas and achievements to scale up and increase development results, thus showcasing and celebrating the progress and achievements of our partners through the IsDB Group CSOs Forum – Assist — Assisting and empowering CSOs in MCs through institutional capacity development to effectively and efficiently respond to MC needs – Connect — Connecting and bringing together networks of developers through mapping and screening of CSOs, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and information – Transform — Investing in transformative projects and ideas that improve the socioeconomic conditions of hard-to-reach communities. ACHIEVEMENTS X At least 24 MCs have so far officially endorsed and supported the Programme. X The Programme has mapped and screened more than 600 CSOs in MCs. X There have been 12 national awareness raising, crowdfunding and capacity building programmes in MCs, including introductory CSO mapping workshops in six countries (Morocco, Indonesia, Lebanon, Tunisia, Somalia and Kazakhstan). X A distance-learning capacity building programme has been established in close partnership between IsDB and Save the Children — Humanitarian Leadership Academy. This learning programme will support CSOs’ institutional capacity and efforts to raise funds as well as to manage, implement, monitor and evaluate projects for grassroots communities. X Over US$ 800,000 has been mobilised through the Tadamon platform to support hard-to-reach communities. Outcomes of the Tadamon platform to date include: – Increasing access of over 50,000 refugees and orphans to quality basic education and relevant skills development – Providing 3,000 low-income families with access to community livelihoods development through income- generating activities – Strengthening institutional capacity of over 500 NGOs/CSOs – Increasing resources through access to innovative financing such as partnership, crowdfunding and blockchains – Organising five capacity building workshops by IsDB to help mainstream fragility, conflict and disaster management and civil society engagement into operations. INVESTMENT X The total cost of the Programme, launched in September 2019, is US$ 21 million, with technical and financial contributions from various development partners including the African Development Bank, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Save the Children International, Plan International and Spark. – The seed contribution of ISFD to the grant financing of the Programme is US$ 10 million. – UNDP has provided US$ 1.61 million – International NGOs have contributed US$ 7.31 million – Participating CSOs have provided in-kind contributions amounting to US$ 2.11 million. X Through innovative financing and the Tadamon platform, the Programme will continue to increase the initial resources allocated by tapping non-traditional partners such as the private sector, foundations, philanthropists and innovative financing mechanisms. Crowdfunding in particular has the potential to generate resources amounting to US$ 20 million during the period of the Programme. X During the COVID-19 pandemic, IsDB developed the Tadamon CSO Pandemic Response Accelerator Programme, which aims to help 17 MCs to prevent, contain and respond to the immediate and medium-term negative impacts of COVID-19. In addition, a Pandemic Response Accelerator Window on Tadamon has so far raised over US$ 24.5 million of actual commitments from partners for 11 MCs with a target population of 7.3 million beneficiaries living in vulnerable communities. T H E T A D A M O N P L A T F O R M Over US$800,000 has been mobilised through the Tadamon platform to support hard-to-reach communities [ 141 ] 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