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 us.

Praxis Notes can be downloaded for free as PDFs. Some translations are available. Please feel free to circulate the Notes within your networks.

Praxis Note Series
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
'Analytical Skills Training in Central Asia'

Praxis Note 21 'Addressing Stigma in Implementing HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy'

Praxis Note 20 'Organisational Learning Across Cultures'

Praxis Note 19 'Donor Policies and Capacity Building'

Praxis Note 18 'Capacity Building at the Grassroots: Piloting Organisational Development of CBOs in South Africa' Also available in Russian

Praxis Note 17 'Vision Quest: Learning about Leadership Development in Malawi' Also available in Russian

Praxis Note 16 'Communities of Practice: Lessons from Latin America'. Also available in Russian and Spanish

Praxis Note 15 '"Quick and Dirty" Evaluation of Capacity Building' by Rick James, November 2005. Also available in Russian

Praxis Note 14 'Autocratics Anonymous: A Controversial Perspective on Leadership Development' by Rick James, November 2005.

Praxis Note 13 'Building Capacity to Mainstream HIV/AIDS Internally' by Rick James and CABUNGO, July 2005

Praxis Note 12 'Robbed of Dorothy! The Painful Realities of HIV/AIDS in an Organisaton' by Betsy Mboizi and Rick James, June 2005 Also available in French

Praxis Note 11 'Capacity Building in an AIDS-Affected Health Care Institution: Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi' by Hans Rode, April 2005

Praxis Note 10 'The Crushing Impact of HIV/AIDS on Leadership in Malawi' by Rick James, April 2005 Also available in Spanish and Chinese

Praxis Note 9 'Metaphor and Analogy: Creating Meaning and Understanding Complexity' by Bill Sterland, March 2005 Also available in Spanish and Chinese

Praxis Note 8 'The Multi-Cultural Iceberg: Exploring International Relationships in Cambodian Development Organisations' by Jenny Pearson, February 2005 Also available in Spanish and Chinese

Praxis Note 7 'Working without Words: Exploring the Use of Cartooning and Illustration in Organisational Capacity Building' by Bill Crooks, November 2004 Also available in Spanish, French, Chinese and Russian

Praxis Note 6 'Using African
Proverbs in Organisational Capacity Building' by Chiku Malunga with Rick James, 2004 Also available in Spanish, French, Chinese and Russian

Praxis Note 5 'Mayan Organisation and Management' by Felix Alvarado, 2004 Also available in Spanish

Praxis Note 4 'Cross-Cultural
Management and NGO Capacity Building: How Should Impact Be Assessed Cross-Culturally?' by Terence Jackson, 2003

Praxis Note 3 'Cross-Cultural
Management and NGO Capacity Building: How Can Knowledge Transferability Be Managed Across Cultures?' by Terence Jackson, 2003

Praxis Note 2 'Cross-Cultural
Management and NGO Capacity Building: How Can Capacity Be Built Through Cross-Cultural Management?' by Terence Jackson, 2003

Praxis Note 1 'Cross-Cultural
Management and NGO Capacity Building: Why is a Cross-Cultural Approach Necessary?' by Terence Jackson, 2003