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Civicus toolkit on handling media; Karen Hurt; Toolkit

Sourcebook from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) on institutional and organizational development; David Wilson and Lindsay Beaton; Sourcebook

A guide for non-governmental organizations and citizens' initiatives.; Academy for Educational Development; 2004

Organizational Effectiveness Series; This manual gives learners new insight and specific tools to lead their organizations more effectively and develop better relations with employees and partners.Unit 1: Overview of Leadership Unit 2: Leadership Is Influence Unit 3: Personal Styles Unit 4: Styles Flexibility Unit 5: Leadership Styles Unit 6: Creating Empowering Climates Unit 7: Creating a Vision

Workbook with worksheets to support collaboration between NGOs and businesses.; This workbook, its companion videotape, and the Drucker Foundation Web site are designed to complement James Austin's The Collaboration Challenge. Together these resources can help your nonprofit organization further its mission through strategic alliances with businesses. These resources can be used, alone or in combination, to encourage your board, volunteers, and staff to consider carefully whether and how to develop alliances with businesses. Here are brief overviews of these resources.The Collaboration Challenge: James Austin's book provides extensive case studies, frameworks, and lessons. It is the primary source for the Drucker Foundation's Meeting the Collaboration Challenge resources. Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: This workbook provides a step-by-step process for nonprofits to explore and develop alliances with businesses. It is useful both for organizations with limited alliance experience and for organizations that have established alliances. Nonprofit leaders can choose which phases and worksheets are most helpful to their own situation. Additional resources can help leaders explore the topics most important to their work. Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Video: The videotape is a powerful tool that introduces examples of nonprofit business alliances and demonstrates how the ideas presented in the book and workbook are expressed in action. The video illustrates alliances' benefits and challenges as nonprofit and business leaders explain how their partnerships have developed and evolved. Drucker Foundation Web Site: The Web site provides this workbook in a downloadable format and presents additional current resources for meeting the collaboration challenge, including information about related workshops, and how to subscribe to the monthly Meeting the Collaboration Challenge email notice.

Approaches and tools for supporting institutional development; European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); Draft Booklet

Toolbook describes the generic partnering process from inception to conclusion, provides ""stand alone"" tools to enable practitioners to develop effective partnerships and includes information about the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and food fortification.

Tool to support rural poor in bringing local government to account - 2005; This power tool describes ways to partner the rural poor to bring local government authorities to account. It is written for change in rural locations. It raises community expectations about the quality of local governance and describes a set of steps to install improvements. It flags the important role that communities can have in improving their own situation. The aim of this power tool is to stimulate the poor to participate in policy formulation and implementation processes. The tool is designed to stimulate supply-side push for improved service delivery together with demand-side pull driven by mobilized communities of the forest dependent poor. The tool is basically a means of raising expecations about the quality of governance that is being provided. The tool describes two vital ingredients for the moblization process:1) A set of five expectations about what local governance should involve and; 2) A series of demand-driven steps to bring it about.