CCFN Institutional Capacity Strenghtening Following CAFOD's partner assessment carried out at the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN), it was found out that the organization is saddled with the responsibility of generating fund for the development works of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, as mandated by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN). However, CCFN has little experience in fundraising and to fulfil this function, the organization requires capacity strengthening of its fundraising ability to be able to generate fund for the sustainable development work of the church and increase solidarity among the 9 ecclesiastical provinces in Nigeria. 

CCFN will be leading this means of entrenching fundraising capacity in the development institutions of the church, especially at the national level contributing to the diocesan and provincial levels. The initial step of the planned fundraising project will be to improve the systems, policies and processes of CCFN and the provincial development institutions through financial sustainability capacity building to acquire the desired fundraising skills to competently roll out the CCFN existing fundraising strategies at the provincial levels for implementation.

To leverage this proposed changes, some of the existing CCFN fundraising strategies will be employed, they are Networking People to People (NPP), whereby those convinced of the vision and mission of CCFN create ownership among their peers and turn them into Donors, Direct Access to Congregations (DAC) using information, education and communication as a tool, Building of Partnerships (BP) whereby CCFN builds partnerships with donor agencies, especially Catholic Donor Agencies and interfaces between them and their interventions that span more than one diocese or province, Capacity Building (CB) whereby CCFN will work with diocesan groups to step down knowledge and skills gained and accompany them to achieve results together and /or tap available knowledge and skills from dioceses to enrich its interventions, Mass Mobilization/Sensitization (MMS) which involves using of massive campaigns in the media with both electronic and print mediums to project CCFN and make it a household name, and finally Advocacy with Government (AG), here CCFN collaborates with the CSN's unit, Church and Society to identify areas of advocacy and take it up with the National Planning Commission and the National Assembly. 

As the project enhances CCFN capacity for fundraising alongside the diocesan institutions, CCFN and its partner dioceses are going to improve on skills in fundraising, and therefore harvest more resources which will be prioritized for intervention in issues that will uplift vulnerable populations especially women and children. The massive campaigns embarked by CCFN will turn the disadvantaged women, men and youths into Donors and therefore create a sense of pride of ownership in them. The psychological disposition that comes from knowing that one has been of help enhances self-respect and dignity and is unquantifiable. CCFN thus will become a grassroots agency that is owned by the poor people (men, women, youths and children) and reduce dependency rate.

The beneficiaries of this project are primarily the CCFN staff made up of 8 males and 7 females but altogether about 90 people (men and women) are expected to benefit from the project from the provincial to the parish levels.