Nonprofit organizations are now continuously being challenged to be more strategic in their communications efforts. Communications activities must add up to more than a series of isolated events such as the dissemination of an occasional publication or press release. Being strategic requires that nonprofits be more deliberate, innovative, savvy, and less reactive in their communications practice. Nonprofits are encouraged to regard communications as essential to their overall success and integrate it throughout their organizations.Nonprofits need ways to better understand their current strategic communications performance and capacity, and to gain a realistic sense of what is possible in terms of developing their communications functions. Strategic communications audits are one tool that can help to meet this need.

10 Steps to Hiring and Managing Sub-Partners; NPI

Document assists frontline health workers in using the data collected at health facilities to solve common problems in service delivery and improve their response to community needs.

Paper deals with youth in war-to-peace transitions and the response of international organizations to them. It further assesses the difficulties in conceptualizing the role of youth in peace-building processes on the one hand and the concrete efforts of international organizations to integrate them into their policies and programs on the other.

Sample form that employees fill out each month to account for their work hours - ENGLISH.

Toolkit provides a selection of 100 participatory learning and action tools to enable communities and organizations to learn about HIV/AIDS together in their community, develop a plan, act on it and evaluate its effectiveness.

Paper presents a conceptual framework for a participatory approach to evaluate the effectiveness of international networks; Nuñez, Martha; Wilson-Grau, Ricardo; 2003

A resource for giving staff and partners of PVO/NGO programs the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for carrying out qualitative research for program management purposes.

This AED publication focuses on proven methods for engaging youth in conflict-affected countries in a variety of effective programs that foster their development as well as their peacebuilding skills.

Document aims is to help civil society organizations build their capacity through better writing.