Resources on organisational development
General
Global principles for global operators: why looking at accountability in relationships matters in achieving sustainability and effectiveness
Michael Hammer: One World Trust, July 2007
This report offers a practical approach in achieving impact by Global Operator, intergovernmental, NGOs by adopting an accountability framework and working on the common challenges experienced in all sectors involved in global governance. Specifically, it explores what governs
the relationships between those who take decisions at a global scale, and those who are affected by them, breaking down accountability into four distinct dimensions: transparency, participation, evaluation, complaints and responses.
Developmental states in the new millennium: concepts and challenges for a new aid agenda
Development Policy Review, 2007, 25 (5): 531-552
This policy review assesses how the aid community helps to build effective developmental states. It explores three central topics including: the relationship between building and rebuilding effective states and the ’good governance‘ agenda; and the role of the international aid community in stimulating or hindering state-building.
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Capacity building for local NGOs: A guidance manual for good practice
Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) (2005)
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Participatory self-assessment of NGO capacity
A. Fowler et al: INTRAC Occasional Papers Series No 10 (2005)
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Strategic planning manual
F. Martinelli: The Center for Public Skills Training (1999)
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POET - Participatory Organizational Evaluation Tool
Education Development Center and Pact, assistance from UNDP (1998)
POET was designed as a robust, easy-to-use assessment process that efficiently and
effectively assists Southern Civil Society Organisations and their CSO partners in achieving meaningful, lasting change. It is based on a methodology called PROSE - Participatory, Results-Oriented Self-Evaluation - and the belief that meaningful organisational development occurs at the intersection of two
processes--identifying perceived organisational strengths and weaknesses and exploring
differences of opinion regarding these perceptions.
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Websites
Learner Resource Center
The Learner Resource Center at the Non-Profit Management Education Center provides a number of resources on the web that could provide you with assistance in a variety of nonprofit management and leadership issues. In the "nonprofit web sites" section you will find a number of useful annotated resources organized by topic.....everything from "How to start a nonprofit organization" to "volunteer management."
