Services: Training
Training—coupled with an organizational development approach—helps organizations achieve a higher level in attaining development results.
Organizations that value learning do things differently than other organizations-they constantly innovate and anticipate change. Training is an effective strategy for organizational renewal and performance improvement when coupled with incentives, processes and procedures that encourage the use of new skills in the workplace. This holds true for international development agencies as well as for the local organizations whose capacity and performance they seek to strengthen.
SI is a leading innovator in training for development and social change. We take time to deeply understand our clients and to develop tailored solutions based on client and "global best practices". SI's approach is learner-centered, highly relevant and participatory, with a focus on achieving measurable results for training investments.
Range of Services
- Customized Training—a broad range of customized training programs in all sectors to strengthen the operational and technical capacity of organizations.
- Organizational Development Consulting-customized consulting services to help organizations plan and introduce systemic changes to take full advantage of innovations and new techniques introduced through training.
- Training Evaluation-designing and conducting evaluations of global training and organizational development programs to improve organizational learning, accountability and results.
Residential Training
SI offers a wide range of residential training workshops targeted to the needs of bilateral and multilateral assistance agencies, international and local NGOs, governments and community groups. We can also work with you to design and deliver training to respond to virtually any performance-related need your organization has.
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Project and Program Design and Management
- Results-based Project Design: Strengthening Program Quality
- Managing the Project Cycle: Tools and Skills for Social Change
- Strategic Planning and Management
- Participatory Learning and Action: Empowering Local Groups
- Participatory Project Launch: Building A Foundation for Success
- Performance Monitoring to Achieve Development Outcomes
- Program Evaluation for Development and Social Change
- Impact Evaluation: Measuring Development Outcomes
- Evaluating Conflict Management Programs
- Implementing Policy Change
- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Local Learning
- Gender and Social Analysis: Tools for Equitable Development
- Social Accountability: Building Responsive Local Government
- Facilitation Skills: Harnessing Group Potential in Social Change
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Organizational Development and Improvement
- Organizational Assessments to Improve Performance
- Positive Approaches to Organizational Change
- Becoming a Facilitator Leader
- Building a Successful Board of Directors
- Fundraising and Diversifying Financial Resources
- Designing and Managing Partnerships and Networks
- Leading and Motivating Diverse Teams
- Managing Virtual Teams
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Community Mobilization and Development
- Appreciative Inquiry for Community Development
- Building Community Capacity to Manage Donor Funds
- Participatory Learning and Action
- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Community Development
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Indonesia - Pandemic Preparedness & Response, ASEAN/USAID, 2009 - 2012
In recognition of the common human, economic, social and security threats that may be posed by influenza pandemics, the US Technical Assistance and Training Facility is supporting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat's work to strengthen member states' pandemic preparedness and response capabilities. Social Impact assists with assessment of individual country situations and managing the coordination of member states' response to a potential pandemic. For the coming fiscal year, Social Impact plans to carry out multisectoral PPR assessments at least six (6) of the 10 ASEAN Member Countries. In addition to the assessments, SI's full time employee works within the ASEAN secretariat to build response capacity and plans to hold five (5) major regional meetings/workshops on preparedness topics of mutual interest to the member states, such as business continuity planning and public measures effectiveness.
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Social Impact Awarded AIDSTAR I Contract in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2009-2014
Building upon our work building the organizational capacity of Congolese NGOs with The Carter Center and Human Rights House, Social Impact was recently awarded a new contract to work with health sector NGOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Representing an important broadening of our scope, SI's role on this new 4-year project, funded through USAID's AIDSTAR I mechanism, is to conduct workshops in strategic planning and financial management for local NGOs concerned with the social marketing of family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal/child health and water and sanitation commodities. Under a subcontract to Population Services International (PSI), our role will also include working directly with the PSI's local affiliate, Association de Santé Familiale (ASF). SI will conduct financial assessments of NGOs receiving ASF funding in order to improve the management, accountability and efficacy of project funds spent on health care in the DRC. SI's staff member on the project team, Dr. Jacques Katuala, will return to DRC to lead this important series of NGO trainings and assessments.
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ENGAGE: Governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo Program, USAID/DRC, DAI, 2009-2012.
SI is eager to mobilize its resources in response to the USAID Office of Democracy and Governance's effort to improve the management capacity and accountability of legislatures and local governments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). SI was recently awarded a subcontract with DAI under the ENGAGE IQC to provide technical assistance on the Governance in the DRC Program, designed to support the DRC's decentralization reforms by empowering civil society. One of SI's senior experts on organizational development, Eve Thompson, will be stationed full-time in Kinshasa for a three-year period to perform capacity building and training programs for local civil society organizations (CSOs) and legislatures. SI's technical assistance will include: assessments of the organizational capacities of health and democracy CSOs using participatory methodologies; design, development and coordination of participatory training modules for local CSOs; and delivery of training to strengthen CSO organizational structure and capacity.
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Project Management Training for Accountable Entities, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), 2009-2014
MCC's mission is to fight poverty through economic growth. In 2009, Social Impact (SI) was awarded a major Task Order to build the management capacity of MCC local partners in up to 17 countries. The MCC's Accountable Entities (government bodies created to manage MCC programs) must deliver large and complex projects in agricultural and rural development, water and sanitation, large scale infrastructure and education in a fixed, 5-year time frame. Ranging in size from $300-500 million, MCC programs place enormous pressure on the Accountable Entities (AEs) to establish effective project organizations, schedule and manage projects, procure and manage contractors, manage risks, work effectively as teams and better integrate financial, procurement and performance reporting to achieve results. Under this Task Order, SI is responsible for assessing AE global program management needs, developing a flexible training curriculum, and providing customized training and technical assistance to AEs in project and program management. Through this support, the AEs will be able to achieve greater results and impacts for the MCC investments.
Together with SI partners, the World Bank Global Distance Learning Network (GDLN) and Emerging Markets Group (EMG), we have assembled a cadre of elite project management professionals to train the AEs, strengthening systems, procedures, structures, and incentives and building teamwork for effective project management. The MCC-beneficiary countries in which SI may provide this training are: Armenia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, Lesotho, Mali, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vanuatu.