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Civil Society Support Programme (CSSP) Ethiopia
The Civil Society Support Programme (CSSP) Ethiopia is a five year, multi-donor investment which provides support for Ethiopian people through the development of Ethiopian civil society organisations. The 
programme helps civil society organisations to increase their capacity to deliver and facilitate more equitable and effective services for, and to expand their reach to, poor and marginalised women, men and children who are not yet able to benefit from national poverty reduction interventions and who are affected by neglected development challenges.
Currently, CSSP is financed by the people of Ireland, Norway, and the Netherlands, and others such as Canada, United Kingdom and Denmark are coming on board soon. The British Council is selected as a Management Agent, and leads the consortium that includes IDL and INTRAC. The British Council has been tasked with developing and implementing the CSSP during the initial five years of the programme. The British Council is managing CSSP from its Addis Ababa office, located at Comoros Street.
CSSP news
CSSP website
CSSP's website launch is coming soon. The website will provide information on grant opportunities, capacity development initiatives and learning on development issues for Ethiopian civil society organisations (CSOs).
First Call for Proposals
CSSP is evaluating applications for the Innovation grants and is in the process of announcing the results for the Capacity Development and Networking grants.
Emergency Core grants
11 grants have been awarded to a selection of national organisations based in Ethiopia.
Pilot Programmes
Pilot activities will soon be starting in Oromia and Benishangul Gumuz regions. The purpose of the pilot programmes is to test out:
- the development of region specific development strategy
- the establishment of regional business units
- the watershed approach
- and scope actual and potential service providers for longer term capacity development support