CHALLENGES:

Like many young NGOs, most of KMG’s funding has come from project-itemized grants. Accounting for donations from so many disparate funding sources consumes a great deal of time, tasks our staff, and limits our ability to work on strategic long term goals. We work without a guaranteed annual operating budget, thus we cannot remunerate our valuable staff as highly as larger NGOs. This adversely affects KMG's ability to hire, train and retain skilled human power.

Moreover, the limited number of skilled specialists in the country, such as trained OBGYNs, has hampered us in delivering adequate services, particularly in the prevention of maternal and child deaths.

The very success of KMG has created great expectations, and there is now demand among communities for services beyond its means.  

Additionally, when communities are mobilized and awakened about their rights, it can pose a threat to the political establishment. The CSOs/NGOs that work in those communities often become political suspects, as KMG-Ethiopia has been, which affects our working relationship with authorities.

Future Goals

KMG is now positioned to scale up its good practices nationwide, while consolidating its achievements in the pilot area.  We are eager to exploit our experience and established best practices by adding value to other organizations and leveraging their work. The goal is to accelerate the momentum for change already underway in different parts of Ethiopia.
We want to steadily build the organizational and financial capacity of KMG as an information resource center that institutionalizes shared institutional learning and knowledge-building.
We want to identify and work with a long-term strategic core funding and consortium funding source.