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New resources in /1_General_Resources/Consulting_services
- Human Rights Tools Consultancy
Our partner organization Human Rights Tools launched a new consultancy: Human Rights Consulting. Its main characteristics are as follows: Quality guaranteed: all our human rights consultants combine strong experience in their areas of competence. They also have a proven ability to work as consultants and trainers. Complementary skills: collectively we cover most areas of human rights and most types of human rights work. Unique combinations: we enjoy teamwork, so you can get a unique combination of skills by involving several consultants on your project. Easy access: its really quick and easy to access our consultants, individually or collectively. No complex barriers, no up-front fees, no registration. Competitive fees: our services are very reasonably priced, because we have very little overhead. If you cannot find the skills or competencies, let us know! We will do our best to find them from our wider network. Of the points above, quality is the most important to us. From working with consultants ourselves, we know first-hand that making the wrong choice of consultant can be a costly mistake: not only are the fees wasted, but also the expenses, time and energy spent by the members of your team who have to take the consultant around. We are doing what we can to make sure that this does not happen at Human Rights Tools - we know all our consultants personally and have a lot of respect for their work.
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New resources in /1_General_Resources/Studying_NGO_Management/MSc_and_MA_degrees
- Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in NGO Management
“This course is designed to develop the key competencies and capabilities needed by those in leadership and management positions in international NGOs. Building on the ten plus years of teaching voluntary sector managers at Cass Business School, this specialist course addresses the specific management development needs of NGO managers. This part-time modular course is a complete development programme for managers who wish to gain a sound understanding of people, strategies and leadership in the context of international NGOs.” Click on the link for more about the course and a video introduction by John Hailey, the programme leader. John Hailey is a specialist on NGO management and one of the founders of INTRAC. His research has focused on developing new approaches to capacity building and managing change; leadership and management of NGOs and non-profits, and the strategic issues facing development agencies generally. Formerly a Professor of Oxford Brookes University, John Hailey now is a visiting professor at City University of London and consultant.
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New resources in /1_General_Resources/Studying_NGO_Management/Short_training_courses
- The Distance Learning Study Guide
"This short guide aims to provide • an introduction to distance learning • an indication of the advantages and problems associated with distance learning • suggested study techniques for overcoming the problems." 8 p., by Dr Bryan Walker of Networklearning.
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New resources in /2_Organisational_Development/Organisational_Assessment
- NGO Self-assesment through a SWOT exercise
This is an excellent hands-on guide to take stock of how your NGO is doing and what are its problems. This self-assessment guides you in four steps through the process to identify key problems and come up with a strategic plan for improvement. Step 1: Analyse your NGO’s Capacity - Step 2: Do the SWOT Exercise - Step 3: Make a Strategic Plan - Step 4: Implement, Monitor, Evaluate.13 p, PDF-format, by Networklearning.
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New resources in /2_Organisational_Development/Social_Entrepreneurs
- Funding Social Enterprises (Stanford Discussions, 2006)
This panel discussion addresses key questions for any social entrepreneur: "What does a successful candidate look like?", and "What is a common mistake that candidates make?", and "What does it need to become a social entrepreneur?" This 45 min podcast provides most useful insight and advice for anybody to improve their chances of success. Panelists include Jenny Shilling Stein, Executive Director of the Draper Richards Foundation, Amy Clark, Global Fellows Program Leader of Ashoka, Jessica Jackley Flannery, co-founder of Kiva, and Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, founder of BUILD. Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation, leads the discussion. Can be listened on the website, or downloaded (20 MB).
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- Short videos on Social Entrepreneurship (Stanford Discussions)
Over 60 short video podcasts on social entrepreneurship: 1-3 min highlights of speeches on topics ranging from micro credit, women, to examples of entrepreneurship, skills needed and much more. Inspiring collection. You can watch them right on the site, or download the videos (4-6 MB each).
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- Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Thoughtful review on the subject and discussion on what a social entrepreneur is. The authors, Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg, are both from Skoll Foundation. Some of their arguments are not without controversy, see comments at the bottom of the page. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2007.
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- Definition of Social Entrepreneurship
Good starting point: This Wikipedia-Article gives it all in a nutshell, plus plenty of links to key resources.
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- Ashoka - Innovators for the Public
Bill Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980. It has since become the world's biggest incubator for social entrepreneurship with over 2000 Fellows in over 60 countries. See at the above link how it works, and read on, for inspiration, about social entrepreneurs which Ashoka supports, at http://www.ashoka.org/news/fellows.
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- 45 Social Entrepreneurs who are changing the World - The 2008 Social Capitalist Awards
Business magazine Fast Company's list of 45 focuses on US social entrepreneurs, but provides valuable insight in one-page summaries of the organisations. Food for thought and inspiration.
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- The Process of Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Opportunities Worthy of Serious Pursuit
"All acts of entrepreneurship start with the vision of an attractive opportunity. For social entrepreneurs, an “attractive” opportunity is one that has sufficient potential for positive social impact to justify the investment of time, energy, and money required to pursue it seriously." This model develops the opportunity creation process into two steps: the social entrepreneur first generates a promising idea, then develops it into an attractive opportunity. Key text for start-up social entrepreneurs. Ayse Guclu, J. Gregory Dees, and Beth Battle Anderson, 15 p., November 2002, Duke Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship.
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- Ashoka’s Social Entrepreneurship Series (audio)
Bill Drayton, the founder and chair of Ashoka starts this audio series with a talk on a new citizen sector and its opportunities. Other speakers are Peter Eigen, the founder of Transparency International Fazle Abed, the founder of BRAC and Mohammad Younus, the founder of Grameen Foundation. This series is also available also on the Ashoka site. At this Stanford site, you can also download the talks to your MP3 player.
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- Social Edge - By Social Entrepreneurs, for Social Entrepreneurs
Provides numerous resources for social entrepreneurs: a big link-list of resources, discussions, features, blogs and links to funding organisations worldwide, by region. If you are looking for a one-stop site for your needs to set-up or move on with your social enterprise, you may well have find that place here, plus plenty on inspiration. This is a blog of the Skoll Foundation, one of the leaders in promoting social entrepreneurship, see also at www.skollfoundation.org.
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- Social Entrepreneurs tell their Story (video)
Social entrepreneurs tell their story in 85 short videos on this youtube channel from Social Edge, the blog of the Skoll Foundation. For more success stories, see also http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/entrepreneurs-depth.html.
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New resources in /2_Organisational_Development/Starting_an_NGO
- How to Build a Good Small NGO
This comprehensive guide with many examples helps you to start your NGO, to plan and monitor projects, to find money and to manage it. Budget and accounting examples are annexed to the 79-pages manual. Practical stuff and easy to read, from Networklearning, an NGO which specialises in making "top quality manuals, field books and training courses easily available to groups who need them." Also available in Arabic and Vietnamese. A must-read for all planning to set up an NGO, or wishing to improve after having started. Downloadable as one file, or in six PDF files at http://www.networklearning.org/library/task,cat_view/gid,56/.
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New resources in /3_Performance_Management/Project_Management
- The Project Cycle- A Teaching Module
What is needed to make a good project plan? This teaching module from Networklearning takes about three days. At the same time, it is an excellent fast-track introduction into the subject. 12 p. in PDF-format. Adapted by Maeve Moynihan from "How to Build a Good Small NGO" (see under Organisational Development/Starting an NGO).
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- Guidelines for Writing Reports
Short and practical description of how to prepare a report and how to write it. One section deals with project progress reports, which includes a checklist for such reports. Lia van Ginneken's paper was published by Networklearning.org.
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New resources in /4_Managing_Finances/Finances_and_budgets
- Building Capacity through Financial Management, A Practical Guide
"Building capacity through financial management is a key way of achieving a more effective organisation. This then leads to an improved programme of activities. With strong financial management capacity, the group or organisation becomes more able to control its own affairs. Without it, the future is often uncertain: it may be impossible to predict when money will be short and, crucially, it may become impossible to fund programmes. This book presents practical ways to build financial management capacity in an international development context (although much of it applies to any non-profit organisation). It describes best practice in the specific tasks of financial management – for example, planning and budgeting and financial controls. It gives examples of how groups and organisations build their own capacity. It also considers what leadership teams can do to guide their organisation’s long-term direction (an activity sometimes called ‘governance’) and it describes other financial management aspects that can be built into an organisation’s structure." John Cammack’s book for NGOs was published by Oxfam in 2007. It includes plenty of practical examples and how-to descriptions. Useful templates and hardcopies are available at www.johncammack.net.
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New resources in /4_Managing_Finances/Fundraising
- Funding Social Enterprises (Stanford Discussions, 2006)
This panel discussion addresses key questions for any social entrepreneur: "What does a successful candidate look like?", and "What is a common mistake that candidates make?", and "What does it need to become a social entrepreneur?" This 45 min podcast provides most useful insight and advice for anybody to improve their chances of success. Panelists include Jenny Shilling Stein, Executive Director of the Draper Richards Foundation, Amy Clark, Global Fellows Program Leader of Ashoka, Jessica Jackley Flannery, co-founder of Kiva, and Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, founder of BUILD. Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation, leads the discussion. Can be listened on the website, or downloaded (20 MB).
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New resources in /4_Managing_Finances/Income_generation
- Financing of Income Generation Activities in the Wake of Conflict
"These guidelines are about the use of financial services for income generation purposes, with as its primary aim the rehabilitation of the economic resources of the beneficiaries in a post-conflict situation, enabling them to re-start economic activities, financial services are seen as a means to this end and not ends in themselves." Ton de Klerk's practical guidelines are based on experiences in Azerbaijan, Burkina Fasu, Caucasus, Georgia, Montenegro and Somalialand, working with Refugees, Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and the original inhabitants. 24 p., PDF-format, from Networklearning.
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New resources in /5_Developing_Human_Resources/Human_Resources
- NGO Leadership Development, A Review of the Literature
“NGO leaders often face extraordinary challenges – both at a personal and organisational level. These challenges are demanding, and distinct from those faced by governments or the for-profit sector.
NGO leaders are often isolated and unsupported. There is talk of a leadership deficit, because of the shortage of talented leaders and the growth of the non-profit sector generally. As a result there is some urgency in attempts to develop a new generation of leaders, and to provide relevant support to existing and future leaders. Leadership development programmes designed for NGO leaders must as a consequence incorporate best practice and current experience rather than rehashing tired, traditional approaches to leadership training.
This Praxis Paper examines the role of leaders and leadership in NGOs. It draws on the analysis of recent research into the characteristics of NGO leaders, and explores the challenges of designing leadership development programmes appropriate to the needs of NGOs. This paper identifies the elements of successful leadership development, and assesses the skills or competencies that need be developed.” John Hailey, the author, was one of the founders of INTRAC. His research has focused on developing new approaches to capacity building and managing change; leadership and management of NGOs and non-profits, and the strategic issues facing development agencies generally. Formerly a Professor of Oxford Brookes University, John Hailey is now a visiting professor at City University of London and consultant.
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- How to Succeed in Your Work
Dr. Bryan Walker brings together some powerful tools and ideas in the 16 short chapters of this manual. It helps you to prepare for a new job with chapters on how to write your cv, how to apply for a post and how to groom for an interview. It helps you to make your own mission statement and how to appraise your work progress. It gives important advice on how to manage a meeting, how to prepare a presentation and to report, how to control your time and how to master stress. The last chapter helps you to find answers on how to decide whether to change jobs and how to plan the change. This is a must-read for all people who are about to start working for an NGO as well as for those who have already done so and want to improve themselves. This 2008 booklet of 67 p. is available free of charge from our colleagues at www.networklearning.org.
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New resources in /6_Communication_and_Marketing/Civil_Military_Relations
- Report on NGO SEMINAR ON CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS (Dec. 07, Geneva)
This 38 p. seminar report by NGO Voice includes an overview of current thinking in civil-military policy and key points for future relations: ”For NGOs, their negotiations with armed groups are often devolved to field staff, local partners and beneficiary communities. This delegation of responsibility involves complex issues of risk management and protection that are poorly understood at present. Furthermore, there are often striking gaps between agency practice on the ground and the principles articulated in humanitarian guidelines. This seminar aimed to explore two themes: NGO policy and advocacy work on CivMil, and NGO operational strategies on CivMil at field level. Expert speakers from the field level and headquarters shared lessons learned and reflected on knowledge or other gaps relating to policy and practice. Through this it is hoped that the results of the seminar can be taken forward to promote more effective and coordinated NGO advocacy and to inform initiatives to develop improved international standards and operational guidelines on CivMil.” For an introduction, see the summary of Raj Rana on p. 14. The complete study on Civmil relations by Raj Rana and Frank Reber is available at www.ngomanager.org/Discussion_Paper_VOICE_CIVMIL_final.doc.
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- CivMil Relations, Discussion Paper for NGO Seminar on Civil-Military Relations (Dec. 07)
“The document explores three broad themes: it examines both NGO policy and advocacy on civil-military relations and attempts to situate these issues on a wider horizon of associated challenges in the humanitarian environment (…) Part 1 is a broad strokes view of the key CIVMIL issues that NGOs face (…) Part 2 is a comprehensive overview of existing CIVMIL policy and guidance (…) The annexes include a comprehensive bibliography, organised thematically and focusing on resources from the year 2000 onwards.”This paper gives a comprehensive and lucid overview on the subject. It was prepared by Raj Rana and Frank Reber was undertaken for a CIVMIL seminar in December 2008 organised by the VOICE network, together with its members Norwegian Refugee Council, CARE, World Vision and in collaboration with ICVA.
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New resources in /6_Communication_and_Marketing/Using_the_Internet
- Create your own social network, website or intranet with ning
Ning is maybe the best solution available right now to create your own social network, your organisation’s website or intranet for free. You can easily add various features, including photos, audio and video and modify colours to your liking. An organisation’s homepage can be online within minutes. A social network or intranet takes more time, depending on your needs. There is a simple setup to help you getting it done and there’s no need for special knowledge about websites or computers. Highly recommended for those organisations and people who always wanted to have their own website! The free version includes an ad banner on the right side of your screen. An ad free version comes for a monthly fee.
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