Reimagining the role of the INGO through community building and shared learning. Nancy Kankam Kusi (WACSI) interviewed.

In this week’s episode, we speak to Nancy Kankam Kusi from West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) about their focus on advocacy, influencing, and facilitating an enabling environment for civil society organisations across West Africa and beyond.

Nancy talks to us about the importance of knowledge sharing on issues of decolonisation and localisation, and how WACSI facilitates spaces for fruitful discussions across the sector. The Decolonising Advisory Community at WACSI provides support to organisations in the Global South in decolonising their practice. They focus on community building and shared learning in order to come up with collective strategies to reimagine the role of INGOs and influence policy in the long term.

Nancy Kankam Kusi is Program Officer of Knowledge Management at the West African Civil Society Institute in Ghana. Nancy also leads a diverse team of civil society actors to initiate and implement international development programs that promote community philanthropy, shifting power and resources to the grassroots, localising and decolonising development initiatives in the Global South. She's also a member of the RINGO Project and the initiator of the Decolonising Advisory Community.

If you’re interested to find out more about Nancy’s work, take a look here:

• Nancy Kankam Kusi LinkedIn
• You can connect and join the Decolonising Advisory Community Platform here
• Watch the launch of the Decolonising Advisory Community platform here
• Get to know about the work of WACSI here
• Connect with her via email on info@wacsi.org and on all social media handle 
• Read more about RINGO here
• RINGO innovation
• RINGO Funders action pod
• RINGO INGO board action pod

Relevant resources:

• Pledge for Change (Adeso)
• Participatory Grant-Making: Transform Trade in Alliance Magazine
• Uganda National NGO Forum
• A Red Cross Red Crescent guide to community engagement and accountability
• Global Fund for Community Foundations
• Decolonisation of aid in francophone sub-Saharan
• Localisation agenda