Resources

Explore our extensive library of resources rooted in practice and presented here freely for the benefit of civil society.  

Praxis Series Paper No.2. She Parliamentarian. A campaign for women MPs in Jordan

INTRAC Principal Consultant Rod MacLeod analyses the success of the She Parliamentarian campaign in Jordan in our latest publication.

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Praxis Series Paper No.1. What remains. Programming for sustainability

What makes a partner or programme likely to be more or less sustainable? This paper seeks to answer this question by drawing on learning generated from INTRAC’s evaluation of EveryChild’s Responsible Exit Process.

Praxis Paper 31. Developing a timeline for exit strategies

This paper collects and analyses learning from a year-long Action Learning Set on exit with the British Red Cross, EveryChild, Oxfam GB, Sightsavers and WWF-UK.

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Praxis Note 73. Click! Using YouTube as a training tool

"Click! Using YouTube as training tool" is a new Praxis Note by Rod MacLeod, which explores the exciting potential of YouTube as a tool for the innovative trainer. It covers both how to use a video in the context of an effective training and also suggests particular clips under topic headings.

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Praxis Note 72. Advocacy capacity building using blended learning in complex and fragile contexts

Drawing on course evaluations and interviews with participants this paper shows how blended learning approaches can provide access to high quality capacity building support in remote and conflict affected locations in a cost-effective way.

Praxis Note 71. From Action Research to Advocacy. Promoting Women’s Political Participation in North Africa

INTRAC Principal Consultant Rod MacLeod shares key lessons learned from the vantage point of a facilitator in the British Council project Women Participating in Public Life and reflects on the challenges and opportunities of using an action research approach.

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Praxis Note 70. Working at the Sharp End of Programme Closure: EveryChild’s Responsible Exit Principles

In this Praxis Note , Lucy Morris, Head of Programmes at EveryChild, describes how EveryChild went about answering this question from a practical perspective. EveryChild developed three simple “responsible exit principles” to guide this process, in order to consider not just when to close the partnerships, but also how to close them.

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Lucy Morris

Praxis Note 69. Making Consortia Work. An example of competing consulting firms in Ethiopia

In this Praxis Note, INTRAC Principal Consultant Rick James explores the reasons why the consortia funded by the Civil Society Support Programme (CSSP) in Ethiopia proved him wrong.

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Praxis Note 51. World Cup Special: How to build a winning team

Who is your Rooney? Who is your Neymar? Who is your Messi? Over the years we have found questions like these to be really useful in helping NGO leaders (with an interest in the beautiful game) to manage their NGO more effectively.

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Rod MacLeod, Rick James

Praxis Note 68. Knowledge sharing in action: The case of Concern Worldwide’s Knowledge Matters

This Praxis Note describes how Concern Worldwide has been able to provide the means, motivation, and opportunity for staff to document and share their experience-based knowledge for organisational learning purposes, though the vehicle of an internal publication called Knowledge Matters.

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Kai Matturi

Praxis Note 67. Survival is not enough: Building capacity of a thriving civil society in West Africa

This paper summarises lessons about capacity building in the region learnt by WACSI, including questions both funders and CSOs should ask themselves and each other before embarking on any capacity building programme.