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…network of national organisations that it had helped to establish called Family for EveryChild. In practical terms, this meant exiting from 10 partnerships and closing or localising our remaining eight…

…‘good death’ and wrote about it eloquently in his article A good death: in search of developmental endings (CDRA Nugget, 2000). . We know from nature that death is an…

…it. When Oxfam Country Director I capped our income at $1 million in order to focus on a few long-term partnerships which were having sustainable impact. I resisted efforts to…

…to search for new income sources in a very competitive funding environment. Funders do not always exit programmes in a planned and sustainable way. Oak Foundation is a positive example,…

…the judgements? To make discerning decisions, INGOs will have to listen to those people who have lived long enough in the country – their long-term local staff, rather than their…

…incremental and intangible, while longer-term results are difficult to measure and attribute. It is almost impossible to make any reliable assertions that we can directly attribute change ‘b’ to input…

…search. My research on CSOs’ resource mobilisation over the years in Western and Eastern Africa has shown that a reliance on external support has caused Southern CSOs to neglect their…

…a distance. In 2001, David’s long-term collaborator Peter Oakley – and then Research Director of INTRAC – died suddenly, leaving a big gap. David found a scheme in the World…

…giving the process of exit two years for long-term partnerships is a reasonable rule of thumb. Sadly, in the imminent funding crisis, INGOs may not have the ‘luxury’ of two…

…fast-moving context. Thirdly, we are thinking about how we can deliver on our mission to strengthen civil society in the short-, medium- and long-term in this new and changing world….

…the start of the short-term impacts, let alone the medium- and long-term changes. For now, INTRAC’s focus is on adapting what we are doing already so that we can continue…

…in their country. But in dealing with the consequences – both in the short and the longer term – the continued good health of CSOs is also vital. This needs…

…learning project funded by USAID. It focuses on responsible transitions of INGOs from a variety of different contexts. A consortium consisting of Peace Direct, Search for Common Ground and CDA…

…short-term impacts of social action projects, while allowing for diversity. However, it struggles to capture the longer-term effects or put context around different impacts. An alternative approach is to take…

…Direct, Search for Common Ground and CDA Collaborative Learning implements the project. In the wake of the movement for locally led development, SAS provides critical lessons for what organizations (INGOs,…

…addition, a long-term capacity building project with clear goals and monitoring and evaluating mechanisms would be a suitable approach.” Ibnu: “With the aforementioned challenges and opportunities, civil society capacity building…

…is a five-year research project improving water security for a resilient future. The Hub is funded through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance…

…online or face-to-face, or blended – to address the specific issues faced by the client(s). We can also offer longer term capacity building for organisations. Some examples of courses we…

…at any time The search button at the top left of the screen (magnifying glass) can be used to search for terms within papers. Zooming in and out: the ‘+’…

…training courses, you can meet the newest members of our team in ‘Our People’, and we provide information about our search for a new Chief Executive. Sign up to receive…

Between October 2018 and January 2019, the Wilde Ganzen Foundation commissioned to undertake a Mid-term Evaluation (MTE) of the Change the Game Academy (CtGA) programme, covering the period 2016 and…

…She also took part in a long-term volunteering project in Siberia, aimed at raising awareness about environmental challenges and at promoting eco-friendly behaviours within the local community. As Junior Consultant,…

…labour rights in Kyrgyzstan. The paper identifies ways in which NGOs and trade unions can search for common ground on key issues around employment and unemployment, outlines capacity building areas…

…fulfil its purpose/ mission in a given context.   2. Vision: Youth CSOs are often short of human resources, capacity, time and space for longer-term visioning and strategic thinking. In focus group…

…different economic sectors. Topic 1 – the job search experience Most of the workers interviewed in the research found work through friends or relatives, with young women relying more on…

…once per group). The first session focused on challenges to sustainability, deconstructing the term “sustainable” and exploring the key elements that can make a project sustainable or vulnerable. The second…

…processes. In simple projects and programmes the divisions between planning, monitoring, review, evaluation and research may be relatively clear. But adaptive management requires programmes to approach problems from another angle;…

…What were the benefits to CSOs in the programme countries? What are the longer-term prospects for change beyond the pilot programme? As INTRAC and NAMA each develop follow-up activities and…

…with Oxford HR Consultants, an executive search specialised in international development. She leads on business development in Asia and Middle East regions, helping NGOs, amongst others, identify and appoint transformational…

…role of social media in mobilising youth for social purposes. The characteristics of such engagement are focusing on a single issue, short-term, and demanding different accountability mechanisms. In dealing with…

…how can we change? What needs to happen to make local CSOs truly local? Clearly, there is a need for some very critical soul-searching and reflection in the CSO sector,…

…Founding Director of Jouri Research and Consulting and a long-term consultant with the British Council. He is also a freelance author. His work has featured in TRT World, TIMES, The…

…contribution of the research to global knowledge through theoretical and policy lenses, and are reaching out to policy users in the governance sector. The Foundation for Civil Society in Tanzania…

This course will provide you with an opportunity to deconstruct the term ‘fundraising’ and view it from the angle of organisational development and sustainability. Fundraising for sustainability is built around…

…(University of Leeds and ODI Associate) and Patricia Tshomba (Independent Researcher) presented emerging findings from research exploring the potential for using a performance index to improve local governance in Tanzania….

In this issue INTRAC’s Research, Learning and Communications Director, Rachel Hayman, addresses the importance of collaboration and responsibly planning for exit to achieve long-term sustainability. We are delighted to include…

…highlighted this, a case of research findings leading to new research questions. The results of the mid-term evaluation were presented at a conference organised by MBOSCUDA and attended by the…

…are pleased to see more and more individuals and organisations become aware of this, and open up to hybrid forms of long-term accompaniment combining consultancy, training and coaching or mentoring….

…in terms of the chain of results – between our work and end beneficiaries makes it hard to assess our contribution, particularly for areas such as capacity change in individuals…

…just symptoms; bring the best of themselves; then we will see them catalyse long term change in civil society. So it’s not that consultants are overrated and overused, but that…

…be slightly prejudiced because of the continued reliance of the NGO on external sources. What is the essence of a “post-closure” evaluation? The term itself seems to mean that the…

…on: Shaping research approaches and agendas that involve or affect civil society organisations Conducting research and contributing to debates on what makes for effective partnership Putting learning into practice through…

Valli Yanni is an Egyptian consultant who has been involved in international development since 1986. She has worked in Egypt, Yemen and Ecuador on long-term development projects. Since 1995, she…

…strong and sustainable local NGOs in Malawi, focused in these areas. Her passion is to help organisations to work in effective, empowering ways that bring about long-term and holistic change….

Would the long-term sustainability and impact of civil society organisations be improved if they had clear plans for managing withdrawal of funding or support from external partners? Whose responsibility is…

…we might think? Take Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, where we have managed to get local government officials involved in joint research and reflection on social and economic issues with representatives of…

…longer term development approaches for greater sustainability and longer term resilience. The focus of the Mid-Term Review was primarily on the management of the DRRI fund itself and assessed the…

…As an independent consultant for the last 7 years, he has worked in short term coordination & programme positions, undertaken humanitarian programme reviews/evaluation, developed and ran learning programmes. This builds…

…research etc. Megan has considerable experience of living and working in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, having worked there with local CSOs and international partners including…

…of the founders of INTRAC for whom he continues to work as an Associate. He has published extensively, and his research has been focused on the leadership and management of…

…He has also considerable experience in assessing the impact of aid given in support of civil society, and was recently part of a team which undertook a long term evaluation…

Helen has worked in international development for thirty years, specialising in advocacy, policy research, and public campaigning. She was Head of Advocacy at Christian Aid 2002-05 and currently works part-time…

…in development in various countries including Nepal, Pakistan, Cambodia, Yemen and Georgia, both as a long-term staff member and short-term consultant. Her areas of expertise include planning, monitoring and evaluation,…

By Dan James, INTRAC Senior Research Consultant. The case for building a better evidence base for interventions in poverty reduction, health, education, humanitarian work and other arenas has been persuasively…

…M&E, M&E of research, Portfolio-level M&E and many others; we share this knowledge and practice as widely as possible. M&E has been a core theme for INTRAC since we were…

…each for INTRAC to carry out research on jointly-agreed issues. The resulting research was presented at twice-yearly Forums and frequently published. The Research Programme ran until 2015, with a range…

…long-term support and mentoring, helping clients to think through how to achieve sustained, positive change in their practice. “Through research, facilitation and solid, grounded common sense, INTRAC became a key…

…resourcing, credibility and long-term viability of civil society organisations. We focus on: Supporting organisations to plan better for their own sustainability through capacity building and organisational development, including in areas…

…on the course. You will receive a booking email with all the relevant payment information and terms and conditions. We request that payment is made as soon as possible to…

…range of services, but much of our work focuses on influencing external funders to develop more effective ways of supporting the long-term sustainability and resilience of civil society. We also…

Civil society organisations in many countries of Eastern and Central Europe are facing challenges to their sustainability and legitimacy as they continue to give voice to marginalised groups and to…

…an advert in a newspaper. It is worth having a transition and search committee. These people will need to put in the time and energy into developing an updated person…

…do they have control over a budget? Will they be given office space? What is their role in search for a successor? What support will they have in making the…

…even limp behind. In many cases founder transitions are the first opportunity to think about change not only in terms of a different person, but also in terms of gender…

…of civil society organisations in Latin America and share comparative practices. We focus on: Research and practice related to the long-term sustainability challenges of civil society organisations in the region…

…offer lessons about how to be in touch with the local ‘market’ and ‘clients’ (what CSOs might term their beneficiaries), about how to have focused purpose and drive? I guess…

Practitioners and funders have to act now to change how they approach the long-term sustainability of organisations and their actions. This applies to civil society organisations themselves, taking a long,…

…that this is damaging their long term sustainability. Diversifying their resource base will help improve their financial independence and stability. We heard two good and innovative examples at the workshop….

…will mention those again that strike me as the most crucial ones. Lack of resources to conduct long-term impact assessment. How would we take the long-term view as internal or…

…of campaigning by pro-democracy groups and pressure from the international community. These have certainly taken place, but long-term Burma observers I met while working in-country point to a predominantly top-down…

…values and resourcing. Mapping and research: analysts emphasize that more research is required on civil society and philanthropy in the region, stressing that this should be carried out by people…

…of long term commitments to support processes of change in societies, and to recognise the importance of protecting those who work with and support individuals affected by conflict. Those of…

…for its parochial, short-term and celebrity-obsessed myopia. But the media only report what is considered newsworthy[1]. The launch of the SDGs in NYC was not short on celebrity, with the…

Outputs, outcomes and impact are terms that are used to descrive changes at different levels from the delivery of goods and services to long-term, sustainable change in people’s lives. Whilst…

…for successful exit. Invest in the process Exit is not a good way of saving money in the short term. Exiting responsibly may need increased contact and communication with partners….

…a third term; a move civil society, opposition parties and even the Catholic Church regard as unconstitutional. Yesterday, the army intervened, announcing that it had dismissed the President and a…

…and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) commissioned INTRAC to undertake a research project – Enabling Youth Volunteerism for a Better Future in Jordan – to consider these questions. Both organisations…

…when it happens Build monitoring of, planning for and learning about exits into mid-term and strategy reviews Ensure the team carrying out exit are sharing their experiences widely and continually,…

…we agreed that addressing the psychological and personal pressures of playing “the graveyard role” (the term used to describe the team dealing with exit at WWF-UK) was a key aspect…

…with all partners including regional civil society organisations. INTRAC Head of Research, Rachel Hayman, will look at the next steps regarding action research, strategies and research priorities. The more than…

…the long-term impact on the lives of children, decided to close down as a traditional UK NGO and transfer its income and assets to a new global alliance, Family for…

…from Russia and other countries, have gradually overtaken aid from international development agencies in terms of support given directly to poor families. Added to which, we are just one of…

…are responding to some of these challenges through a long-term advocacy capacity building initiative undertaken by INTRAC. It aims to provide readers experiencing similar challenges with a set of ideas…

…meaningless terms – the ability to write a good proposal and find convincing numbers quickly. Fittest is limited to the ability to manage a grant. This is too superficial. Fittest…

Oxfam’s Vivien Margaret Walden introduces the ‘Contribution to Change’ approach, which takes into account multiple sources of responses to emergencies to understand the long-term effect of aid provision. Patient Balungwe…

…external stakeholders), who is more likely to generate longer-term strategic growth. Rick James argues that leaders need to overcome their tendency to autocracy and become more humble. Both are right,…

…strategic, organisational, programmatic, social, and financial elements. However, experience tells us that financial sustainability is crucial for the long-term survival and effectiveness of all types of NGOs and civil society…

…It also tends to result only in short-term social capital credentials, with limited longer-term prospects for self-sustainability.[11] These concerns are reinforced by serious questions about some donors’ capabilities to learn…

Experience tells us that financial sustainability is crucial for the long-term survival and effectiveness of all types of International NGOs. The challenge is how to achieve such levels of financial…

…of social transformation in the long term rarely exist without a distinct and recognisable base of values or purpose. We will therefore consider how sustainability is related to the clarity…

…jumped out for me included: leadership, trust, conscience, character, being self-critical, cultivating not building, cultivating not controlling, making it personal not mechanical, thinking long-term not short-term, and being ruthless where…

…end of their natural life. It is tempting to spend too much time, energy and money on nursing terminally sick organisations, while other initiatives, making more of a difference, go…

…sustainability in a rapidly changing development context. The study, conducted with Prof. Emma Mawdsley, found a perceptible feeling among Ghanaian NGOs that their sustainability remains threatened in the long term….

…than resisting. Arguing that the future should unfold as imagined in the past (and set out through rules and regulations) therefore reveals a myopic concern with short-term, partisan political interests….

By Rowan Popplewell. Recent years have seen the publication of an increasing number of media and research reports describing how a significant number of governments across different world regions are…

…assessment, Sisters of St Louis developed a longer term capacity building programme to support its Sisters in West Africa. As part of the programme, INTRAC delivered a training workshop on…

…to have forgotten them in capacity building. They have fallen out of favour with donors fixated on short-term results. They are unpopular because they involve risk. We have to accept…

…their support to a more instrumental focus on projects with a direct impact on short-term results at community level. The idea of supporting an initiative that will benefit the whole…

…marginalised people. Other endeavours may help: for example initiatives such as the Big Push Forward might yet have an impact on donor policies, whilst in the longer-term education of the…

…changing India: emerging roles, relationships, and strategies Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay and Thida C. Khus. Changing civil society in Cambodia: in search of relevance Anabel Cruz. Is civil society in the…

…such as climate change and long-term gender inequality. It seems that initial reactions are mixed; those whose particular interests are included in the report, such as NGOs engaged in technical…

…cost. In other words, policies of reducing direct staff costs have led to shifting costs to often expensive providers. In the search for safety, a risk-averse civil servant culture means…

  The term “civil society” in Russia is often taken to refer to civic organisations and movements created during and after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early…

…including increased marketisation of civil society, the rise of short-term populist coalitions and campaigns, and the emergence of new social movements seeking to discuss and realise political and economic alternatives….

INTRAC has undertaken two major programmes of work on Cyprus Cypriot Civil Society in Action Programme 2010-11 Funded by the European Commission, this research project examined how civil society in…

…long-term, holistic capacity building. We are encouraged to once again let civil society shape our development agendas. This book is intended for NGOs, think tanks, multilateral and bilateral donors; all…

…raise levels of effectiveness of development and humanitarian interventions. Such efforts have been concerned with how to secure the greatest long-term sustainability of their impact, but are also based in…

This paper synthesises the findings from a six-country research project looking at the workplace responses to HIV of 50 international agencies – bilateral, multilateral and NGOs – working in India,…

This research, funded by SIDA, was undertaken as part of the study of the role of civil society in fragile states, namely in Tajikistan and and Zimbabwe. One of the…

…to do with both the different understandings of the term ‘programme’, and with the usual problems of levels of measurement and attribution. This paper first attempts to present some clarity…

Conversations with Cypriots or about Cyprus usually turn to ‘the Cyprus problem’ before long. This term refers to the longstanding division of the island: triggered by a decade of violence…

…using linear models has become a defence against action research and a barrier to bringing about transformative social change that enables and sustains people and communities in the long term….

How does the aid industry support civil society in its long-term role of counterbalancing and complementing the state and representing the views and activities of citizens? This ONTRAC issue re-examines…

…between governments and NGOs and a broadening view of what constitutes “material support” to terror, means that CTMs are set to be a long-term and burdensome operational reality for NGOs….

…of civil society. Many are looking for civil society to deliver predetermined and measurable results. Resources are spent on research and conferences dedicated to discussing the technical challenges we face…

…the experience has also shown what might be achieved in the short term through the delivery of a Partnership Development training course, and what might be improved in future courses….

…even know such a term.was being used in the development circuit! But after a while, as we were doing it, the term somehow crept into our and the donors’ vocabulary….

…long-term success story that wouldn’t call itself capacity building but fits the capacity-building ideal, and Louis Callewaert discusses the realities of State–civil society capacity building within the wider global aid…

…economic rehabilitation and transition. Capacity building in both settings is a new term, having arrived with equally novel concepts such as the ‘NGO’, ‘civil society’, ‘democracy’; and ‘good governance’ as…

Over the last decade the term ‘mainstreaming’ has become an established part of development jargon. It rose to prominence through the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the UN Fourth…

Since the search for ways to measure the impact of social development work gained an urgency in the mid 1990s, the debate has proceeded in several directions, with various methodologies…

…(that term in itself is open to multiple cultural interpretations). Most multi-cultural organisations will have a history of great ideas that never became reality, the revised system which over time…

…South African NGOs, Janice Giffen explores options for local resource mobilisation, Chris Wardle provides a critique of the concept of sustainability and Vicky Brehm outlines the elusive search for sustainability…

…and equality of the term ‘partnership’ and the fact that in reality partnerships between Northern and Southern NGOs are generally imbalanced in favour of the North, given its control over…

In seeking to understand what they may have achieved in terms of ‘change’ NGOs and other development agencies need to move beyond simply measuring output in quantitative terms: they need…

…they adapt to, or are affected by the recent changes in the mechanisms of direct funding. It was clear, however, that direct funding is as much a term that is…

…which unlike traditional charities attempts to mobilize the potential of the poor themselves, and which in contrast to relief and emergency agencies focuses on the promotion of long-term sustainable development….