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Resources on organisational development


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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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Supporting a community of trainers


In this report Gerdien ten Cate analyses research carried out by the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) from April to July 2005, designed to identify the information needs of computer and internet trainers who provide services to development projects and organisations. In this report the trainers are referred to as ICT4D trainers, where ICT4D stands for Information and Communication Technologies for Development.
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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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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."
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