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Steve Burns
| | Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 04:14 pm: | |
For the past 2.5 years, the World Vision Asia Pacific Disaster Management Office has been developing a competency based set of qualifications and standards for humanitarian relief workers. Only three sectors (Finance, Commodities and Programming) have been developed so far, however there is an interesting Certificate III in Humanitarian Relief which is an attempt to describe some of the basic skills required by all those working in the field during an emergency response. The competency standards and some other information relating to the project are available at www.reliefstandards.org and feedback on the accuracy of the standards and their applicability to other NGOs is genuinely sought.
The package is currently going through an accreditation process with the Australian National Training Authority, so the qualifications will be formally recognised - this was considered an important aspect of working toward greater professionalism within relief. It should also be noted that the package is aimed at training national staff, rather than ex-pats.
warm regards,
Steve Burns
(Australian based vocational education consultant to the project)
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Sonia Esslinger
Guest
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 04:49 pm: | |
I am involved in capacity building with my organisation.
Are there any widely accepted competency structures in the development project area or micro credit enterprise areas?
It would be good to get some feedback
Sonia |
Drew Bishop
Guest
| | Posted on Friday, August 01, 2003 - 02:44 am: | |
Sonia,
It would be helpful if you further explained "capacity building". Are you looking at the people or at the organization. By that I mean you may have well qualified people, but are looking at how to bring them together to produce a solid output.
If you're looking at the non-profit management side of capacity building, http://www.ngomanager.org/index.htm
is a good place to start. Also, http://www.newschool.edu/milano/hub/ is helpful.
Finally, http://www.managementhelp.org/topics.htm is a generic not-for-profit Web site for all sorts of management issues development orgs tend to forget.
Good luck, Drew |
moses mwangi
Guest
| | Posted on Monday, August 04, 2003 - 07:10 am: | |
Sonia
Micro Credit Enterprises,
The capacity building approach that you can use will be different depending on whether the enterprises are group based or individual. However you can visit www.microsave-africa.com for more information on micro credit enterprises capacity building techniques
Moses mwangi.
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James Thurlow
Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:53 pm: | |
Drew
Me being provactive here - how does non-profit management differ from for-profit management?
Different stakeholders Shareholders v Donors, Customers v Benaficeries.
NP's tend to manage volunteers.
Or is it just the NP's alturistic motivation which FP's just don't have?
As I said I'm being provactive in my questioning - I do personnaly believe that NP's are a different sector but I'm not sure its that different that it has to develop its own management qualifications, competency frameworks, etc. |
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