translated from Spanish: 88% of civil society organizations believe that Covid-19 will have a strong impact on their management

A study conducted by Fundación PwC Chile, Fundación Lealtad Chile and the Community of Solidarity Organizations (COS), shows that 87.5% of civil society organizations consider that the effects of covid-19 will have a high or very high impact.
In this context, the perception that exists within organizations – no doubt – has a negative impact. It is also apparent that there is a high alignment with regard to the perception of lower income and the impossibility of providing services by covid-19.
86.2% agree or very much agree that your organization will receive lower revenues and 68.4% agree and very much agree with the impossibility of providing services and/or developing projects. In addition, 52.9% agree or very much agree with the lack of technological tools to provide their services remotely.
In this vein, the executive director of the Community of Solidarity Organizations, Hans Rosenkranz, comments that “it is necessary to strengthen the ecosystem of poverty overcoming for civil society organizations, facilitating access to credit, technology, and funds oriented to strengthening, and not just specific projects”.
15% of organizations believe that the crisis could mean that they have to close or enter hibernation, 63.5% admit that they do not have enough cash flow to meet the needs of 2020 and 38.7% agree or agree that they will have to close programs.
This relates to the 58.3% agreeing or very in accordance with the need to reinvent the organization.
Regarding this, the executive director of Fundación Lealtad Chile, Francisca Egaña, says that “Multi-crisis has remeded organizations beyond the immediate response to Covid-19. In this time, we have had to start strategically rethinking ourselves and innovating in ways to achieve our purposes and survive economically. In this sense, the challenge is twofold and we believe fundamental to be able to generate instances of collaborative and cross-sectoral support, where we complement our talents so that the ecosystem is strengthened”
Effects on work teams
70% require face-to-face contact and 61.9% must be mobilized to do their job. About 52% of organizations say they have the capabilities to develop their work remotely.
In relation to the perception of the need to decrease teams and/or working hours, divided responses are appreciated: 39.7% indicate that they will have to decrease the size of the team, 43.6% decrease the working day and 39.5% decrease remuneration.
In addition, there is a high agreement regarding the need for board participation to exit the crisis, with 63.5% very much in line with this need.
In this context, the executive director of the PwC Chile Foundation, Sharoni Rosenberg, comments that “without a doubt the organizations that carry out their work in person have been the most affected with the pandemic. In the same vein, almost half of medium-sized, small and very small organizations believe that they will have to reduce their paid staff; affecting the organization, workers and target audience.”
About 65.8% of organizations say that it is designing collaborative strategies that would contribute to the sector, in general, better dealing with the crisis. In terms of partnerships, 28% find that private sector partnerships have not been supportive, with a considerable part not leaning in agreement or disagreement. While 33.9% believe that public sector partnerships have been a support during the health crisis.

Original source in Spanish