RACI

Shared Horizons: Global Initiatives for a New Civil Society

November 18, 2025

The civil society sector is undergoing profound transformations. Cuts in international cooperation, the closing of civic spaces, and delegitimizing narratives are putting the sustainability and future of thousands of organizations at risk, especially in the Global South. In the face of this challenging context, this year RACI launched the program “Reimagining the Future of Civil Society”, an initiative that seeks to promote new collective responses and strengthen the sector’s capacities to build possible futures.

One of the program’s central pillars is articulation, understood as the strategic bringing together of actors and movements that are rethinking the current model of international aid and cooperation. With this purpose, we conducted a global mapping of initiatives that are promoting structural change and share a transformative perspective.

Within this process, on Wednesday, November 26, we will hold a gathering that will bring together international leaders working on the redistribution of power in cooperation, community philanthropy, institutional transformation, and the decolonization of aid. We will seek to collectively answer a key question:

How can we transform the international cooperation system to make it fairer, more equitable, and centered on local actors?

During the discussion, we will address:

  • How the cooperation system works today and why it no longer responds to the current context.
  • What structural changes are needed to achieve a more equitable future.
  • What can civil society organizations do to drive that transformation.
  • How to coordinate efforts among global initiatives to work jointly.

Participation will be open and free of charge, with prior registration.


Below, we present the initiatives that will be part of the gathering and that have been selected for their key role in building a new cooperation ecosystem.

NEAR Network – Network for Empowered Aid Response

 

NEAR es un movimiento global de organizaciones locales y nacionales del Sur Global que busca transformar el sistema de ayuda internacional hacia alianzas más justas, equitativas y dignas. Promueve modelos donde las comunidades son agentes de cambio con poder real de decisión, reemplazando la lógica asistencialista por una basada en el liderazgo local.
🔗 https://www.near.ngo/

Global Fund for Community Foundations & #ShiftThePower

El Global Fund for Community Foundations impulsa el movimiento global de filantropía comunitaria y es el creador de la agenda #ShiftThePower, que plantea cambiar las dinámicas de poder en la filantropía y la cooperación. Convoca a actores comunitarios de todo el mundo y promueve relaciones basadas en la confianza, la horizontalidad y el reconocimiento de los saberes locales.
🔗 https://globalfundcommunityfoundations.org/

Reimagining the Future of Civil Society (RACI)

Esta iniciativa liderada por RACI surge ante un escenario crítico: recortes de 73 mil millones de dólares en fondos internacionales, cierre de espacios cívicos y riesgo de desaparición para el 40% de las OSC. Propone una respuesta colectiva desde el Sur Global que combine reflexión estratégica, innovación y acción concreta para fortalecer el poder narrativo, político y operativo de la sociedad civil.
🔗 https://futurosociedadcivil-raci.org/

Humentum

Humentum es una organización global que fortalece a entidades de impacto social mediante soluciones prácticas en gestión financiera, recursos humanos y mitigación de riesgos. Ofrece consultorías, capacitaciones y una plataforma de membresía que conecta a organizaciones de todo el mundo para compartir herramientas y aprendizajes.
🔗 https://humentum.org/

ACAPACA – Permanent Latin American Forum for the Decolonization of Cooperation

ACAPACA articula movimientos sociales latinoamericanos para impulsar un nuevo modelo de cooperación internacional basado en principios decoloniales, feministas, antirracistas y participativos. Su agenda propone superar las lógicas extractivistas, cuestionar las relaciones asimétricas entre donantes y receptores, y fortalecer el liderazgo de las comunidades y organizaciones de base.
🔗 https://www.acapaca.org/

Panel of the meeting

  • Asier Malax – Co-Director of ACAPACA
  • Jenny Hodgson – Executive Director of the Global Fund for Community Foundations
  • Kim Kucinskas – Technical Director of Global Initiatives at Humentum
  • Alexandra Brosnan – Advocacy Advisor at NEAR
  • Guillermo Correa – Executive Director of RACI
  • Clara Bosco – Technical Advisor at Funding for Impact

The future of international cooperation is being reimagined from multiple places around the world. This meeting seeks to open a space for dialogue between those driving that change and those who wish to join in building a stronger, more legitimate, and more sustainable civil society.

 

We invite you to be part of it, register here.

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