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Nous avons réuni la Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organization (ZELO), la Southern Alliance For Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE), Wildlife Conservation Action (WCA), Tikobane Trust, CCAZ et l’Association CAMPFIRE pour un atelier conjoint sur la collecte de fonds et la communication.
Ils sont repartis non seulement avec des outils, mais aussi avec un renouvellement de leur sens de Zimbabwe’s conservation legacy et l’étincelle pour raconter à nouveau une histoire unifiée.
"The workshop gave me clarity on how fundraising and communications connect, and the importance of the two in achieving our goals, and making sure our organization is visible. I feel we now know what to do to showcase our work and impact. As a team, this had been a gap. We were also immersed in blindly applying for proposals. The workshop was an eye-opener: it helped us understand we should focus on building relationships first and connect the dots. It helped the team, including our comms officer, better understand why her work matters." Estella Toperesu, Executive Director, SAFIRE
We also brought together all our Rwanda partners for a similar workshop, helping them reframe fundraising as a strategy, not survival, and more.
“In our case, we didn’t realize we needed Maliasili until we began our strategic planning and discovered we were taking on too much…nor did I know I needed the confidence and courage to push back on misaligned funding. I tried this approach with a funder. I pushed back, stating that we needed an investment in our organization and were prepared to decline the money. The donor left, and we thought we had lost them. However, they wrote back two weeks later, accommodating all of our suggestions.” – Jean Claude Dusabimana of Nature Rwanda
View our collaboration with the Sustainable Finance Coalition in two Readers: an exploration of emerging financing models and a practical guide to making the most of them.





Strong operations – finance, HR, planning, MEL – are the backbone of effective organizations. This year, our partners took major steps forward to make their organizations more resilient, more accountable, and more ready for growth.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) has been a particular area of growth for many of our partners, and steady investment is helping partners strengthen the quality of their data, use it more effectively, and build greater confidence in sharing their impact.
At our MEL workshop with Tsavo Trust, what really stood out was the shift in mindset: MEL is not a silo. MEL + comms + fundraising = learning, visibility, and resource mobilization.















