There were many examples of knowledge, tools and techniques learned during programme activities being used to both improve the organisational functioning of the partners… (and) also being applied in work with self help groups.
Jenny Pearson, mid-term review of INTRAC’s programme for ACT-D, March 2009

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In January 2007, INTRAC began a three-year programme entitled 'Strengthening NGOs to Support the Self-Help Movement'. This supports a network of twenty NGOs working on poverty and gender issues in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and is funded by ICCO through the consortium ACT-Development. INTRAC has provided capacity building support and training on staff management, resource mobilisation, monitoring and evaluation, and trainer skills.

Highlights of the programme in 2009:

  • The completion of an Analytical Skills Training Programme to enhance NGO capacities for research, analysis and lobbying local issues. Twelve studies were produced on issues around access to health and education services, women’s and pensioners’ rights. Five NGOs were supported in their dissemination of the results.
  • The second phase of an Action Learning Sets programme focused on team management and community development skills. Six groups are currently meeting monthly in Bishkek, Osh and Dushanbe.

Other training programmes developed by INTRAC in the region:

  • A multi-module leadership training programme for youth and women, developed in Kyrgyzstan (2006) and followed up in Turkmenistan (2008) and within the ACT-D programme (2009)
  • INTRAC’s Open Training Programme in Central Asia

Recent consultancies:

  • ACTED Tajikistan - training for staff in local self-government (jamoats) and community activists (2007-09)
  • NGO Rights and Prosperity, Tajikistan - creation of a strategic plan
  • Milieukontakt International - external evaluation of programme developing the environmental movement in Kyrgyzstan (2008)
  • British Embassy Tashkent – workshop on civil society role and regulation with Charities Commission, UK, and Institute for Study of Civil Society, Uzbekistan (2008)
  • Save The Children, Kyrgyzstan - Global Impact Monitoring of inclusive education programmes (2007)