The NGOs Empowerment for Poverty Reduction Program “Tadamon”

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) launched the ISFD-NGOs Empowerment for Poverty Reduction Program “Tadamon” in 2019 to help civil society organizations (CSOs) in its 57 member countries better serve vulnerable groups, such as refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), orphans, people with disabilities, and most deprived populations. The program aims to empower NGOs to improve the socioeconomic well-being of the hard-to-reach communities through education, job creation, building resilience, and community livelihood development.

Tadamon is a partnership program sponsored by The Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), managed by the IsDB, and implemented by United Nations Development program (UNDP) and other strategic partners.

The Program supports IsDB member countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It is an innovative transformation approach to development that brings together the work and experience of civil society organizations (CSOs), private businesses, and social investors who are specialized in crowdfunding and blockchain. The Program aims to drive increased participation and involvement of CSOs in the socio-economic development of member countries, mobilizing resources, and leveraging expertise to eradicate poverty.

Program Objectives 

The aim of the program is to empower NGOs to be able to implement projects and programs to raise funding to improve the socio-economic well-being of the hard-to-reach communities through education, job creation, building resilience and community livelihoods development.

The Program carries out the following interventions:

• Mapping, screening, and categorizing national CSOs in selected Member Countries.
• Building CSOs capacity.
• Promoting innovative and transformative projects in refugees’ education, job creation, building resilience and community livelihoods development.
• Setting up sustainable innovative financing mechanisms for CSOs through crowdfunding and partnership.

ISFD Contribution 

The total cost of the ISFD NGO Empowerment for poverty Reduction Program is US$ 21.00 million.  The seed contribution of ISFD in the financing of the Program through grant is amounting to US$10 million. UNDP contributes an amount of US$1.61 million to the Program. The International NGOs are expected to contribute an amount of US$7.31 million to the Program. Participating civil society organizations provides in-kind contribution amounting to US$2.11 million.

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