Training and Capacity Building
Facilitating the increase in capacity of our partners through building on existing local knowledge, and creating greater understanding of how to appropriately support local initiates, are core value of SDIA and the Network.
Capacity building for local NGOs: A guidance manual for good practice this comprehensive manual on capacity building for local non-governmental organisations can be used for training and development or by local NGOs as a self-help manual. There are eight chapters: Governance, Strategic Planning, finances, managing projects, to fundraising. Each chapter can be downloaded separately. This manual was published by the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in 2005. You can get this at the CIIR website.
Capacity Development: Definitions, Issues and Implications for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. A lucid summary of the concept of capacity development that emerged in the 1980s and a comparison with its conceptual predecessors. This manual provides insight into the issues at stake. By Charles Lusthaus, Marie-Helene Adrien, Mark Perstinger. (Download)
CIDA's Capacity Development Toolkit: CIDA's toolkit contains what is probably the web's best collection of tools and key texts on capacity development. "The audience for the Tool Kit have diverse interests and needs for capacity development materials. They include Project and Program Managers, Program and Policy Analysts, Executing Agencies, academic researchers and students. Some readers have considerable knowledge and experience with capacity development concepts and programming. Others may be new to the field. To respond to this diverse audience, the Tool Kit contains a wide variety of materials."
CIDA is the Canadian International Development Agency. (link available soon)
Community Empowerment: Encouraging, developing and measuring capacity. GO
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