Thinking about consortia? Answer five simple questions first
By Rick James. Consortia, networks and coalitions are all the rage nowadays. The good news is that we are finally […]
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.
Briefing Paper 39. Evidence, economics and exclusion: super actors, civil society and citizen debate in the post-MDG paradigm
International development is being reconfigured. As the MDGs approach their end point, with debatable impact, it is not only the aspirations of development that are under review. The organisational forms and international partnerships through which development is delivered are changing.
ONTRAC 44. What next for INGO structures?
In this issue on Ontrac we look at future directions in the structures of international NGOs, building on debates at […]
OPS 49. Indigenous Social Movements and International NGOs in the Peruvian Amazon
The following report presents a detailed case study of an indigenous organisation based in the Peruvian Amazon and its relationships […]
ONTRAC 37. Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation
Every few years M&E is rediscovered as the missing or weakest link in international development cooperation. Words like ‘accountability’ and […]
Praxis Paper 17. Organisational Learning in Civil Society
This paper highlights that organisational learning requires both individual and collective learning processes which purposely contribute towards changed organisational behaviour […]
Praxis Paper 3. Organisational Learning in NGOs
NGOs work in an increasingly demanding environment characterised by growing competition for shrinking aid budgets. They are under pressure to […]
ONTRAC 14. Small is beautiful; big is better?
Is it realistic to believe that small European-based NGOs have a future as serious development actors? A number of recent […]