This searchable database contains technical and program-related materials, including U.S. Government forms, to support organizational development and institutional strengthening.
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
Approaches and tools for supporting institutional development; European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); Draft Booklet
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.
USAID toolkit exploring the connections between livelihoods and conflict; This ""toolkit"" explains the connections between livelihood and conflict and aims to provide USAID missions with access to concrete, practical program options, lessons learned, and information about potential partners, mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation tools for implementing more effective conflict programs. The document concentrates on how violent conflict can affect individual and community access to essential resources and how an approach that focuses on strengthening that access can help people survive and recover from conflict. Livelihoods, or individuals' or households' access to resources is often a primary factor in motivating violence. In some cases, if livelihood support is offered early enough, conflict may be avoided.
Paper aims to improve child survival and community health programs.
Paper examines the role of leaders and leadership in NGOs by analyzing recent research on the characteristics of NGO leaders and identifying the elements of successful leadership development.
NGO General Management for USAID projects in Russian
Manual to support peacebuilding and reconciliation; The manual aims to provide Caritas Internationales workers, and other NGO workers, with flexible training suggestions and materials to support and enhance their efforts in peacebuilding and reconciliation. It is designed for both trainers and novices. More specifically, the manual goals are to: Provide ideas and resources for effective peacebuilding trainers; Provide interactive materials that cover the basic conceptual dimensions of peacebuilding; Provide training modules that identify and enhance skills needed for peacebuilding and reconciliation work; Provide trainers with flexible options that allow them to tailor training to fit participants' needs and their local context.
Presentation on how to develop Organizational Capacity.