Improving Organisational Effectiveness

Community Works offers training workshops on project design and planning, project management, monitoring and impact assessment. We are sometimes asked by participants to provide additional sessions, popular choices being strategic planning, fundraising and scaling up.

A program that received particularly good feedback from participants was on organisational effectiveness and was held with NGO managers from four countries in Latin America. The work was managed by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and funded by AusAID through its Australian Leadership Award Fellowships.

The challenges of scaling-up successful programs arose through discussion with participants. Many participants considered that effective advocacy to government was arguably the best way to achieving wider positive impact, without necessarily requiring an expansion of their own programs. Steve Fisher has co-authored a paper for Ninti One on replicating effective projects, which is available from the Community Works website.