1. Strategies for Building NGO Capacity Presentation by Joan Dixon, MOB, EdD Melissa Hawkley, MPH candidate Allison Evans Scott, MPA candidate

2. What is Capacity Building? An explicit effort to improve an organization’s performance in relation to purpose, context, resources and viability. A self-managed process of organizational change by which leaders, members and other primary stake holders learn to assess strengths, diagnose key organizational weaknesses, recognize priority issues, and devise, apply and assess actions to address these issues. Requires new skills and changes in individual behavior, and also in organizational behavior, in terms of systems, structures, procedures, culture, strategies and decision- making. From the Roots Up: Strengthening Organizational Capacity through Guided Self-Assessment World Neighbors

3. Role of the NGO An NGO is a unique organization in that it plays an intermediary role to facilitate development and build the capacity of individuals, groups and organizations in developing countries. When we talk about building the capacity of NGOs, we are talking about building their capacity to build capacity of others.

4. Two key strategies for building the capacity of a development NGO. Cultivating collaborative relationships with the local people. Cultivating collaborative relationships with other organizations involved in development.

5. Complexity and range of capacity building activity is linked to an organization’s approach to eradicating poverty. Structural Transformation Humanitarian Service Provide goods and services to individuals & communities. Build capacity of local Indigenous organizations Community Development Build capacity of local, regional and national systems Sustainable Systems Create new structures and transform systems

6. Humanitarian Service Provide microcredit loans Capacity building strategy is based on improving the NGO’s communication and logistics for effective delivery of appropriate goods and services. Humanitarian Service

7. Community Development Provide education and local support systems for micro-entrepreneurs Capacity building is focused on strengthening the performance of local organizations in relation to their purpose, context, resources and viability. Community Development

8. Sustainable Systems Improve markets, regulations, etc, that affect micro-entrepreneurs. Capacity building focuses on networking with government and other organizations to develop a system to sustain local, regional or national development. Integrated systems work to inter- related the efforts of multiple development sectors, for example, environment, microfinance, agriculture, education, etc. Sustainable Systems

9. Structural Transformation Link to microcredit summit’s effort to create a worldwide microfinance system Capacity building focuses on creating networks and strategies to transform systems at all levels, to create new ways of organizing and new ways of thinking about economic, social and political relationships. Structural Transformation