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The CSO Sustainability Index (CSOSI) for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia provides a comprehensive assessment of the capacity of civil society to serve as both a short-term partner in implementing development solutions and a long-term actor in ensuring development outcomes are sustained. The CSOSI empowers local civil society to collectively assess not only the environment in which they are operating, but also their own capacities to advocate, operate sustainably and communicate with citizens.This year’s Index reports on the state of CSO sectors in twenty-four countries in the region, from the Baltics in the north to the Caucasus in the south, and the Visegrad countries in the west to Russia, which stretches east to the Pacific Ocean. It addresses both advances and setbacks in seven key components or “dimensions” of the sustainability of the civil society sector: legal environment, organizational capacity, financial viability, advocacy, service provision, sectoral infrastructure, and public image. The Index is intended to be a useful source of information for local CSOs, governments, donors, academics, and others who want to better understand and monitor key aspects of sustainability in the CSO sector.

This Guide was developed to help program designers who work in any sector to envision and implement with CSO partners the CD support that will strengthen local systems and help CSOs achieve their missions. Program designers from both implementing partner and donor organizations who are working to build the capacity of CSOs can use this Guide to better distinguish among CD approaches, the processes involved in each, and potential impact of a chosen approach. By identifying organizational characteristics and areas of potential capacity growth, this Guide will enable program designers to better select the intervention necessary to achieve their desired goal. Although this Guide is designed to benefit CSOs, the approaches outlined can also be applied to community based organizations (CBOs) or local for-profit organizations. The approaches included in this Guide are designed to increase capacity regardless of the actual knowledge or skill targeted.  

Documents from the CAP Mozambique compendium titled, ""Strengthening Leading Mozambican NGOs and Networks, 2006-2016: Lessons and Tools for Development Practitioner.Titles include: Overview and Reflections: • Overview of the CAP Mozambique Project and its Role in the Fight against HIV/AIDS • Reflections on Capacity Development and Measurement: A Decade of Experience in Mozambique Strengthening Organizational Structures and Systems: • Motivating Change: Mozambican Organizations Transform Themselves Through the Participatory Organizational Assessment Process • Mozambican CSOs Rise to the Challenge: Good Governance in Practice • Promoting Quality Data Systems and the Value of Good Data • Harnessing Potential: CAP’s Organizational Development Results Strengthening Project and Technical Implementation: • Developing Capacity to Design Proposals and Budgets • Mozambican CSOs Embrace Social and Behavior Change Communications • Integrating Gender and GBV into HIV Prevention Programming in Mozambique • Improving Community HIV Prevention: Choosing the Right Activistas • Operationalizing Government Guidelines for Orphans and Vulnerable Children • Summary Report on HIV Prevention End Line Evaluation Reflections and Case Studies: • The Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM) Sofala Story: Engaging Communities in Creating an AIDS-Free Generation • A Leap of Faith: Learning to Delegate Improves the Quality of Programs • Owning Project Results – Niiwanane Case Study • Taking Charge of our Future – AMME Case Study

Report analyzes conflict potential in Central Asia and advocates a new strategy for peacebuilding in the region.

Conceptual framework of CDD, presentation of CDD projects, and assessment of impact.; Arne Strand, Hege Toje, Alf Morten Jerve, and Ingrid Samset; 2003

Participation in post-conflict environments in Timor-Leste and Rwanda; Sarah Cliffe, Scott Guggenheim, and Markus Kostner; 2003

Document is a planning and management tool that can assist development and humanitarian organizations in analyzing situations of (potential) conflict and identifying strategic opportunities for conflict prevention and peace-building.

Document describes a joint USAID-PVO conference called Dialogue on Working in Conflict, in which USAID and PVO representatives discussed how to help the U.S. humanitarian and development communities be more effective in working in conflict settings.

Working paper on conducting monitoring and evaluation in refugee-related situations.; Georg Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst

Analysis of the peace building potential of faith-based organizations.; Tsjeard Bouta, S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, Mohammed Abu-Nimer; 2005