Change the Game Academy Information

Change the Game Academy empowers Self Help Groups (SHGs), Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) all over the world, and especially in low and middle income countries, to learn to raise funds locally and to mobilise other kinds of support. To achieve this, the present rules of the ‘development game’ need to be fundamentally changed: many CBOs and NGOs in the Global South largely depend on foreign funding. Change the Game Academy aims to channel the responsibility to alleviate poverty to where it ultimately belongs: the countries themselves. From 2007 till 2015, we implemented the Action for Children (AfC) program, funded by the Dutch government. In Brazil, India, Kenya and South Africa, AfC successfully trained over 900 SHGs, CBOs and NGO’s to raise funds in their country for their own projects. Based on the conclusions of an intensive evaluation, we made this curriculum available worldwide by developing free online courses, and we added courses on mobilising support. Change the Game Academy uses a blended-learning approach: a combination of online and classroom learning. A free work-at-your-own-pace online training can also be accessed without taking a classroom course at: www.changethegameacademy.org