Improving Organisational Effectiveness

Improving Organisational Effectiveness

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Improving Organisational Effectiveness

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.

 

Support to effective policy and practice in social services

Support to effective policy and practice in social services

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Support to effective policy and practice in social services

Support to effective policy and practice in social services in Paraguay

 

The Government of Paraguay is seeking to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its social services. As part of this initiative, Community Works is facilitating a project that commenced in May 2012 and is managed by GIZ, the German Agency for International Cooperation.

As one component of the project, a senior delegation from the Government of Paraguay will participate in a study tour to Australia to gain exposure to service models and methods. The program includes:

  • Training workshops on coordination and decentralisation of services
  • Visits to State, Federal and local government service agencies, focussing on services in remote and regional Australia
  • A seminar on ‘Services and local government; critical success factors in achieving results’, with invited speakers from academic institutions and professional associations
  • A colloquium on ‘Critical factors in improved service coordination in Paraguay’ in which the findings of the delegation will be presented and discussed.

Community Works is wishes to thank the many individuals and organisations in Australia who have offered to contribute their knowledge to the project. In the follow-up phase, the project will provide support to participants to implement their ideas within their own departments and services.