Being bold about futures-thinking
At the October 2021 EDGE Funders Alliance annual conference, FICS Director Poonam Joshi was among the keynote speakers on a panel discussing the “Barriers to Change: What’s holding us back from the futures we need?”
Pushing back the proliferation of counter-terrorism laws and policies
FICS Director Poonam Joshi chaired a special event organised by BOND, the UK network of aid organisations, in September 2021, to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks and the following UN resolutions on counter-terrorism.
A new initiative on civic space and security
Security laws and policies have severely squeezed civic space over the last two decades.
Civic space: what environmental funders need to know
This briefing paper summarizes how the closing of civil society space is impeding environmental and conservation initiatives around the world, the drivers behind these increased restrictions, and how funders are starting to address these challenges
What is closing space grantmaking?
In Spring 2018, FICS published a paper that grouped strategies to support civil society into two broad categories: resistance and resilience.