Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Management Course

Overview

Introduction

This course is aimed primarily at NGO staff with management responsibilities, and for individuals who wish to develop their knowledge and skills in preparation for moving into such positions. This programme provides a critical overview of the major issues involved in NGO management, with an emphasis on organizations working in development and poverty-reduction in the based region.

Duration

10 Days

Who should attend?

• Project and programme managers
• Team leaders
• Newcomers to the non-profit sector
• Consultants who carry out assignments for NGOs.

Course Objective:

• Outline the distinctive characteristics of NGOs
• Provide an overview of the issues facing NGOs as development organizations
• Principal types and instruments in international development cooperation
• Understand the role and challenges of NGOs vis-a-vis the development concerns of the community
• Special challenges of NGO management
• Provide a range of tools, techniques and skills for the effective management of organisational learning, strategy and change within NGOs.
• Familiarization with results-based management
• Project management
• Process of internal assessments and about the use of and main criteria for external evaluations
• Selecting marketing tools for fundraising
• Criteria of donor agencies in supporting a project
• Structure and prepare a grant proposal
• Principles of good communication and negotiations
• Developing and lead a team plus resolve conflicts skills
• Criteria for successful human resource management

Course content

Module 1: Understanding NGOs

• Stages of an NGO
• Factors necessary to build an NGO of good quality
• Need Assessment
• SWOT analysis
• Getting a legal status

Module 2: vision, principles, mission, strategies

• NGO leadership and governance
• NGO mission and strategy
• Decide on good strategies and goals
• Vision built on principles
• Gender policy
• NGO structure and systems

Module 3: Building sustainability institutional

• Workshop technique
• Sustainability in projects
• Sustainability and training people
• Building sustainability through strong networks
• Challenges to building a network

Module 4: Managing People

• Building good structures
• Formal NGO
• Specialization among the staff
• Building and sustaining the principles
• Africa and western model of organizations
• NGO structure
• Improving the staff functioning
• Supervision/ support of the workers
• Building and sustaining an effective board
• Good group functioning
• Institutional sustainability

Module 5: Marketing

• Non-profit brand development
• Fundraising
• Planning the funding needs of the NGO
• Social media marketing
• Agencies with funds

Module 6: Mobilizing and managing financial resources

• Approach to making budgets
• Role of budgeting
• Managing the money
• Managing scarce resources
• Financial control
• Important financial management
• Financial accounting versus management accounting
• Accounting rules

Module 7 The project cycle

• Monitoring and evaluating NGO performance and -Identifying the real problems and needs
• Planning
• Implementation
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Criteria used in evaluation
• Monitoring and evaluation tools
• Performance indicators
• Logical framework approach
• Theory based evaluation
• Formal surveys
• Rapid appraisal methods
• Participatory methods
• Impact evaluation
• Four models of impact evaluation

Training Approach

This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.

Tailor-Made Course

This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: [email protected] Tel: +254 721 331 808

What you will learn

Learning Objective:

• Outline the distinctive characteristics of NGOs
• Provide an overview of the issues facing NGOs as development organizations
• Principal types and instruments in international development cooperation
• Understand the role and challenges of NGOs vis-a-vis the development concerns of the community
• Special challenges of NGO management
• Provide a range of tools, techniques and skills for the effective management of organisational learning, strategy and change within NGOs.
• Familiarization with results-based management
• Project management
• Process of internal assessments and about the use of and main criteria for external evaluations
• Selecting marketing tools for fundraising
• Criteria of donor agencies in supporting a project
• Structure and prepare a grant proposal
• Principles of good communication and negotiations
• Developing and lead a team plus resolve conflicts skills
• Criteria for successful human resource management