Capacity building for local NGOs: A guidance manual for good practice This comprehensive manual on capacity building for local non-governmental organisations can be used for training and development or by local NGOs as a self-help manual. There are eight chapters from governance, to strategic planning, finances, managing projects to fundraising. Each chapter is available to download separately. Published by the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in 2005.
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CIDA's Capacity Development Toolkit CIDA's toolkit contains probably the web's best collection of tools as well as key texts on capacity development. CIDA: "The audience for the Tool Kit have diverse interests and needs for capacity development materials. They include Project and Program Managers, Program and Policy Analysts, Executing Agencies, academic researchers and students. Some readers have considerable knowledge and experience with capacity development concepts and programming. Others may be new to the field. To respond to this diverse audience, the Tool Kit contains a wide variety of materials." CIDA is the Canadian International Development Agency.
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How to improve NGO Effectiveness in Development? A Discussion on Lessons Learned The proliferation of NGOs in the North and South since the late 1980s and 90s has brought critical questions about NGOs effectiveness and sustainability: It is time to rethink the NGOs’ role in development and to explore ways to improve their effectiveness. In this context, Esra Guler draws four key lessons from the review of NGO literature that could provide useful recommendations for non-profits to improve organizational performance.1. “Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare”: In Southern NGOs, strategic planning is often weak, since they orient their priorities towards the choices of their Northern partners. 2. Organisational learning and strategic knowledge are keys to gain leverage and credibility: The prevailing culture of action over refection often inhibits organizational learning. Investing more in monitoring and evaluation systems, among others, will create opportunities to learn and increase accountability. 3. Interactive partnerships among NGOs, public and private organisations are required for sustainable impact on development. 4. What is vital for sustainability is not only sufficient quantity of funding, but also its quality and diversification. Dependency on one donor may distort and NGO’s autonomy and weaken legitimacy. When mobilizing funds, NGOs need to find multiple donors with an optimum mix of quantity and quality of funds. February 2008, 6 p. Esra Guler is Associate in Research at the Duke Center for International Development.
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Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship into Development NGOs: Some Recent Perspectives and Recommendations from the Field Rafe Mazer examines the role of social entrepreneurship and revenue-generating ventures within NGOs and identifies criteria to determine if a social entrepreneurship approach might be interesting for an NGO. He lists five potential benefits which need to be assessed: Financial sustainability and autonomy, reduction in costs of already-provided services, improved client service, innovations in management and organizational structure and a stronger connection to the local economy. To ensure that the mission and effectiveness of the NGO are not compromised, three design considerations should be addressed: whether a social enterprise should be housed within or outside of the existing organization, the use of existing staff or hiring of new ones and if he new service or product link up with existing ones. Successful social enterprises may also show the business world “how they can rethink their operations to achieve greater sustainability that goes beyond the balance sheet.” February 2009, 7p. Rafe Mazer is a Master’s candidate in International Development Policy at Duke’s Center for International Development.
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International Forum on Capacity Building (IFCB) Surveys, readers and documents on capacity building. Publications arranged by region. Recommended reading as introduction: "Approaches to capacity building: Northern NGO Survey".
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Organisational Capacity Building: Reflections from Practice INTRAC's PRAXIS Programme is about enabling Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to become more effective by linking theory and practice - researchers and practitioners - in the field of organisational capacity building. Through its publications PRAXIS aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas, learning and innovative practice in NGO organisational capacity building.
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What is capacity development ? Describes the concept of capacity building and different approaches (see under resources): organisational, institutional, system and participatory process. Contains main definitions and links to further reading.This site is also available in French. "Capacity.org is an initiative of the European Centre for Development Policy Management with the aim to look at policy and practice of capacity building within international development cooperation."
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You Learn Something New Every Day A great blog on learning, with insight, tips and hand-on tools on many subjects ranging from Appreciative inquiry to informal learning, from learning organisations to networked knowledge, the workplace of the future and much more. Gillian Martin Mehers and Elisabeth Crudgington run this blog, which is fun to read and very inspiring.
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