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Praxis Notes
Praxis Notes provide an opportunity for practitioners with 'hands on experiences' to offer insights into their own experiences and learning on organisational capacity building.
If you are interested in contributing your own experiences please contact the Praxis team.
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Praxis Note series
Praxis Note 60 'Doing it by yesterday: Accelerated workplace policy development'
Praxis Note 59 'Leadership, gender and youth: Reviewing the old and experimenting with the new'
Praxis Note 58 'Reflections on Building CSO Capacity to Integrate Gender and Diversity Equality'
Praxis Note 57 'Building the Capacity of Village Communities to Manage the Provision of Clean Drinking Water: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan'
Praxis Note 56 'Low Cost and Effective HIV and AIDS Workplace Responses'
Praxis Note 55 'Assessing the Impact of Faith: A methodological contribution'
Praxis Note 54 'Capacity Development in Humanitarian Crises: Practice and lessons learnt about strengthening civil society organisations'
Praxis Note 53 'Using Action Learning Sets methodology in an NGO capacity building programme'
Praxis Note 52 'Striking Oil: Blessing or Curse? Supporting civil society advocacy to ensure that the benefits are shared'
Praxis Note 51 'World Cup Special: How to build a winning team'
Praxis Note 50 'The means is the end: Reflections on the process of developing HIV workplace policies'
Praxis Note 49 'Just do it: Dealing with the Dilemmas in Monitoring and Evaluating Capacity Building'
Praxis Note 48 'Capacity Building and Islamic FBOs: Insights from Malawi'
Praxis Note 47 'Faith-Based Organisational Development (OD) with Churches in Malawi'
Praxis Note 46 'Who Needs an HIV Policy? Informal workplace responses to HIV in Nigerian, Kenyan and Malawian CSOs'
Praxis Note 45 'Responding to HIV in the Workplace: The Successes and Challenges of Working Through an HIV Focal Person'
Praxis Note 44 'Customised Family Day Events: Promoting HIV Counselling and Testing in the Workplace and Beyond'
Praxis Note 43 'Seeing with perspective: Using ‘insider- outsider’ dynamics to reflect on the civil society response to HIV/AIDS'
Praxis Note 42 'Experts in HIV Content and OD Process: Facilitating workplace policy response to HIV/AIDS'
Praxis Note 41 'Catalysing workplace responses to HIV/AIDS: Using a risk analysis tool in Ethiopia'
Praxis Note 40 'Making HIV/AIDS Policy Work: Experiences from South Africa'
Praxis Note 39 'Wellness in the Workplace: Boosting organisational immunity to HIV/AIDS'
Praxis Note 38 'Denial, fear and fatigue: The emotional blocks to addressing HIV/AIDS in the workplace'
Praxis Note 37 'From Near Paralysis to High Achiever: The Evolution of CHF Building Community Capacity Project in Guyana'
Praxis Note 36 'Building Confidence for Co-operation'
Praxis Note 35 'Capacity Development for Indigenous Territorial Management'
Praxis Note 34 'Enhancing Civil Society through Empowerment and Capacity Building of Civil Society Organisations'
Praxis Note 33 'E-networks and NGO Challenges: Insights from Mexico'
Praxis Note 32 'Learning and Accountability: A Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant’s Perspective'
Praxis Note 31 'Children in Emergencies: Improving Quality of Response through Capacity Building'
Praxis Note 30 'Building the Capacity of Human Rights Leaders and their Organisations'
Praxis Note 29 'The Serendipity of Capacity Building: A Story from Sri Lanka'
Praxis Note 28 'Appreciative Approach to Capacity Building'
Praxis Note 27 'Executive Coaching for Leadership Development'
Praxis Note 26 'Capacity Building: The Impact of Practice, Success Story: SongES Niger 2002–2006'
Praxis Note 25 'Learning Leadership Development from African Cultures'
Praxis Note 24 'Mentoring Leaders of HIV/AIDS CBOs'
Praxis Note 23 'HIV/AIDs in South East Asia'
Praxis Note 22 'Building Organisational Capacity though Analytical Skills Training in Central Asia
Praxis Note 21 'Addressing Stigma in Implementing HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy'
Praxis Note 20 'Organisational Learning Across Cultures: Reflections on VBNK’s experiences in Cambodia and the importance of understanding the cultural perspectives of learning'
Praxis Note 19 'Donor Policies and Capacity Building'
Praxis Note 18 'Capacity Building at the Grassroots: Piloting Organisational Development of CBOs in South Africa'
Praxis Note 17 'Vision Quest: Learning about Leadership Development in Malawi'
Praxis Note 16 'Communities of Practice: Lessons from Latin America'
Praxis Note 15 '"Quick and Dirty" Evaluation of Capacity Building'
Praxis Note 14 'Autocratics Anonymous: A Controversial Perspective on Leadership Development'
Praxis Note 13 'Building Capacity to Mainstream HIV/AIDS Internally'
Praxis Note 12 'Robbed of Dorothy! The Painful Realities of HIV/AIDS in an Organisation'
Praxis Note 11 'Capacity Building in an AIDS-Affected Health Care Institution: Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi'
Praxis Note 10 'The Crushing Impact of HIV/AIDS on Leadership in Malawi'
Praxis Note 9 'Metaphor and Analogy: Creating Meaning and Understanding Complexity'
Praxis Note 8 'The Multi-Cultural Iceberg: Exploring International Relationships in Cambodian Development Organisations'
Praxis Note 7 'Working without Words: Exploring the Use of Cartooning and Illustration in Organisational Capacity Building'
Praxis Note 6 'Using African Proverbs in Organisational Capacity Building'
Praxis Note 5 'Mayan Organisation and Management'
Praxis Note 4 'Cross-Cultural Management and NGO Capacity Building: How Should Impact Be Assessed Cross-Culturally?'
Praxis Note 3 'Cross-Cultural Management and NGO Capacity Building: How Can Knowledge Transferability Be Managed Across Cultures?'
Praxis Note 2 'Cross-Cultural Management and NGO Capacity Building: How Can Capacity Be Built Through Cross-Cultural Management?'
Praxis Note 1 'Cross-Cultural Management and NGO Capacity Building: Why is a Cross-Cultural Approach Necessary?'