Capacity development
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Ebele Achor
global capacity director
eachor@pactworld.org
2,032
partner organizations that Pact supported in 2020
Five ideas for supporting CSOs to be more relevant, resilient and sustainable
May 24, 2021
The notion of civil society sustainability used by international development practitioners over-fixates on issues of civil society organizations' (CSOs’) financial viability and fails...
In Eswatini, two local Pact partners make a huge leap forward as they ‘graduate’ to direct USAID funding
February 23, 2021
In the beginning, Khulekani Magongo recalls, it was just him and a Peace Corps volunteer. It was 2006, and Magongo was the sole employee of Young Heroes, a Swazi organization that launched to respond...
Emergency assistance provided by LINKAGES Indonesia during Covid-19 ensures continuity of HIV and tuberculosis treatment for priority populations
September 9, 2020
This story originally appeared on the LINKAGES blog and has been cross-posted here with permission. It was written by Pact's Ria Ningsih with LINKAGES Indonesia, Lucyan Umboh with LINKAGES Indonesia...
Raising the voices of indigenous organizations across the Amazon region
August 5, 2020
“Indigenous women need autonomy, a voice and a light.”
This is how Telma Taurepang describes the challenges that her community has long faced. She serves as coordinator for União das Mulheres...
An important tool for responding to Covid-19 around the world? Local capacity.
June 29, 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold around the world, it has underlined the crucial importance of local capacity, and specifically organizational resilience. After all, it is local systems...
Capacity development not training: Context, partnership and data for effective capacity development
April 24, 2019
Capacity development in the aid industry is complex. Pact's capacity development team is using its approach to build and improve systems to maintain solutions.
Research article: The Organizational Performance Index: A new method for measuring international civil society capacity development outcomes
January 11, 2019
This Performance Improvement Quarterly journal article explores Pact's OPI.
In Nigeria, a state-level health COP shows the power of convening
July 3, 2018
Reducing diarrheal disease among children is a major goal of the global health community. Although it is both preventable and treatable, it is the second leading cause of death among children under 5...
Welcome to the world, Government Performance Index!
April 3, 2018
For years, Pact’s Organizational Performance Index, or OPI, has been helping local organizations to measure their capacity, understand their weaknesses and systematically improve them to become the...
Through capacity development, a once-small Ukrainian NGO leads in HIV services
January 30, 2018
Although Olena Ovsyannikova was the head of a well-established HIV services NGO, she’d never heard of the concept of organizational development before.