Capacity Development Approches
Capacity support is provided through a number of mechanisms. These include:
• Core Training on Financial and Organizational capacity support (including: accounting procedures, procurement policy, strategic planning, project and budget development/ implementation, monitoring and evaluation, organizational structure and management systems, human resource and personnel management) and Human Rights Based Approach and Gender Mainstreaming in project development and program management.
• Reform Focused Technical Capacity Support
- Advocacy Skills Training (including: research and policy analysis; report writing; and public information, public relations, and media skills).
- CSO/CBO – Local Government Dialogues: Fundamental to advocacy and monitoring, are formal and informal linkages and processes that integrate citizen views and concerns into policy making and policy implementation.
- CSO/CBO discussions and dialogues focus on local/national governance issues and local issues of concern, and serve as mechanisms for advocating for policy reform and/or resolving policy-related and governance issues.
Budget Analysis - particularly for grantees implementing activities related to devolved funds.
• Capacity Development Synergies
- Change Framework / Demonstration Effect: Democracy and governance reform success achieved by civil society actors, particularly at the local and regional levels, serve as valuable lessons learned for organizations and communities throughout the country.
- Discussions that focus on how change and governance reform success were achieved, what challenges were faced and how they were addressed, often serve as models and inspiration for communities and CSOs working in comparable environments.
- Mentoring Across the Civil Society Sector: Mentoring is encouraged among national, regional and local CSOs and networks in areas including technical support, organizational skills, and network building.
- Informal Linkage Building with Local Government and Media: Where possible, group training, particularly on substantive issues, or on such topics as budget reading and the budget process, will include local government and/or media representatives.
• Additional Support
- Training of Trainers: To ensure sustainability of capacity building assets at the local level, Amkeni Wakenya will conduct pilot training of trainers activities for representatives of CBO/CSO networks, umbrella networks, and local training institutions. These networks are expected to train and support their constituent/member organizations, and retain capacity development skills, locally, thereby serving as “multiplier agents” at the community/provincial level.
- TOT Apprenticeship: To increase their training competence, network trainers who have undergone TOT, will be invited to participate in CSO group and individual training exercises conducted by the capacity building Consultant. Training conducted by the TOT participants is supervised by the capacity building Consultant.
- Proposal Development: Proposal development training is provided for selected organizations that are invited to submit proposals, but who may experience e challenges with proposal writing. These organizations are invited based on Expressions of Interest (EOI) submitted in response to public calls for EOIs.
