What you will learn:
• Basic monitoring and evaluation theory in relation to accountability
• What to monitor, how, and who for
• Indicators you can use to monitor and evaluate your work
• Tools for monitoring and evaluating, their limitations and advantages

NGOs are increasingly required to report on the impact of their development or humanitarian interventions. However, there is often confusion about what impact really entails, and how it is different from evaluations. This course gives clear answers to these questions, and enables you to design impact assessments based on your own work, which fit your organisation’s needs.

What you will learn:

• The concept of impact assessment
• How impact assessment differs from, and complements, monitoring and evaluation processes
• The approaches used to assess impact
• Tools and systems for assessing the impact of your work
• Key challenges you will face in practice
• Design your own impact assessment process
• How to use the results

Getting small amounts of money from large numbers of people means finding the angles that will appeal to a diverse population with a common interest in ending international poverty.

This 2 day course gives you time to focus on what is special about the sector, think about how to present and represent Southern beneficiaries and work on your unique selling points.

As well as setting out the legal and financial aspects of appeals, events and trading, the course allows you to practise campaign and copywriting tools that deliver results for direct marketing using different media.

Why choose this course: Raising money from several different sources involves a strategic approach to financial management. If you work in fundraising or project proposals, this one day course allows you to step back and examine how your various project budgets work together.

You will look at all the options for funding your core costs and importantly, you will have the chance to write an action plan that sets priorities and recovers costs in the most appropriate way for your international development programme.

What you will learn:
* What is financial sustainability
* Ways of covering core costs
* Approaches to using reserves
* Assessing and managing risk
* Start to develop a sustainable fundraising strategy

Why choose this course: Logical frameworks encourage transparency and flexibility in planning a project with stakeholders. They are a powerful way to focus ideas, co-ordinate resources and pinpoint future difficulties and opportunities. Used throughout a project, logical frameworks can provide a whole new perspective on project planning, management and evaluation.

What you will learn:
• The key elements of a project, how they relate together and their hierarchy of importance
• Key stages where participatory work with stakeholders is essential to project planning
• Setting objectives and choosing strategies through analysing stakeholders’ problems and needs, capacity and resources
• Draw up a sample logical framework based on your own practical case studies

Why choose this course: Whether you work on programmes, policy or campaigning, you need to know how to work with Southern partners and beneficiaries in a participatory way.
This highly participative 1 day course allows you to clarify what participation means, gain an overview of the innovations and critiques in current development practice, and share challenges and successes.
The course will equip you with confidence and practical tools to introduce or improve participation in your work.

What you will learn:
* What participation means to you and in the sector
* Approaches, critiques and current innovations
* Effective ways of addressing the challenges
* Practise using participatory tools which you can apply in most contexts
* When and how to promote participation in your work.

Why choose this course: To plan effective campaigns and influence decision makers to change policy you need a clear understanding of the advocacy process, its purpose and impact. Poorly thought out advocacy programmes can be ineffective or even counter-productive. This course will explore the reasons for and against engaging in advocacy projects and the specific set of skills and techniques you will draw on.

What you will learn:
•The role of advocacy in development
• The importance of legitimacy and accountability
• The different approaches to advocacy and influencing change
• The implications for NGOs of adopting insider or outsider strategies
• The basic principles of successful public campaigning
• A framework for planning, managing and monitoring your strategy

Why choose this course: For people working in direct contact with Southern partners, this course explores programme partnerships and the dynamics of the relationships. Using your own experiences, you will look at the principles behind effective partnership working, how they translate into practice and the challenges and pitfalls. The course will identify the approaches and practical tools in the international development sector for empowering and learning from your Southern partners.

What you will learn:
• Different styles of partnership and what it means to different people
• The principles and values underpinning effective partnerships
• Putting principles into practice: what helps and what hinders
• Facing up to tensions and challenges
• Approaches and tools for developing your partnerships further