Who we areAddis Ababa, Ethiopia

About CSRC

CSRC is an Ethiopia-based civil society resource centre that combines knowledge services, public-interest learning, and programme partnership work. Its public footprint points to a practical role: helping organisations access information, strengthen systems, and connect with opportunities, peers, and sector-wide conversations.

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Founded2019

BaseAddis Ababa

Operating modelLearning and support hub

ThroughProgrammes and partnerships

Working model

CSRC operates as a support platform for civil society organisations, combining resource access, learning formats, and partner-led programme delivery.

How the centre works

A resource hub built around support, learning, and sector connection.

The Civil Society Resource Center was founded in 2019 and operates from Addis Ababa as a civil society knowledge hub for Ethiopia. Public descriptions of the centre consistently emphasise information access, technical support, learning, and partnership work for existing and emerging civil society organisations.

Rather than behaving like a single programme brand, CSRC works as a support platform. It hosts learning, shares practical guidance, connects actors to opportunities, and contributes to broader ecosystem-strengthening initiatives with local and international partners.

Public partner materials also describe CSRC as a national hub for civic innovation, policy learning, and resource sharing. That combination of support, learning, and convening is the clearest lens through which to understand the organisation.

What CSRC does in practice

Core operating modes across the centre.

CSRC's public role is best understood through the ways it translates knowledge, delivers learning, convenes actors, and works through partnerships.

Knowledge

Translate legal, regulatory, and programme experience into usable guides, webinar notes, and practical resources for CSOs.

Learning

Run training pathways, fellowships, and event formats that build leadership, advocacy, communication, and management capacity.

Convening

Bring together universities, rights groups, public institutions, funders, and local organisations around common civic challenges.

Partnerships

Work through consortiums and sector support programmes that expand the reach of civil society strengthening in Ethiopia.

Strategic direction

Priority areas visible in CSRC's programmes and public activity.

Leadership and organisational strength

Support civil society leaders, fellows, and emerging organisations with practical learning in project cycle management, proposal development, communication, advocacy, and organisational planning.

Civic space, rights, and public dialogue

Create room for informed engagement on human rights, legal frameworks, refugee protection, women human rights defenders, and the day-to-day operating environment for CSOs in Ethiopia.

Knowledge access and future readiness

Turn research, webinars, manuals, digital activism training, and multi-partner learning into accessible tools that help organisations adapt and stay effective.

Public sources

This page is grounded in CSRC's public footprint, not placeholder copy.

This first-pass content is based on CSRC's public company page, partner programme pages, and archived CSRC materials while the main website remains unstable.

CSRC public page CSIF INTRAC AFD Christian Aid Archived CSRC page

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