An Annual Report is a document drafted by NGOs to disseminate the results of all the activities designed and developed in the past twelve months. This report is important for three main reasons: The reports gives the opportunity to share with your donors and the wider audience the achievements … [Read more...] about How to develop an NGO Annual Report that can also help raise Funds
Some Tips on Financial Planning and Budget Management for NGOs
The golden rule for financial planning and budgeting is to approach it as a strategic process. First of all, it is important to understand that the future of your NGO and its capacity to affect the life of your community depends on your abilities to secure funding in order to develop projects. Bear … [Read more...] about Some Tips on Financial Planning and Budget Management for NGOs
How to develop a Sustainability Plan for NGOs?
A sustainable NGO is an organisation that plans ahead. First of all, if you are about to set up an NGO make sure to build a strong argument for the reasons why such an organisation is needed. In fact, the future of an NGO highly depends on its capacity to address real problems of a community as well … [Read more...] about How to develop a Sustainability Plan for NGOs?
Why is Monitoring & Evaluation important for NGOs?
Monitoring and evaluation are separate practices dedicated to the assessment of your NGO’s overall performance. Monitoring is a systematic and long-term process that gathers information in regards to the progress made by an implemented project. Evaluation is time specific and it’s performed to judge … [Read more...] about Why is Monitoring & Evaluation important for NGOs?
The INGO Management Agenda 2012
The Management Agenda is Roffey Park’s annual survey of organisational life. It aims to identify the key issues and challenges that today’s managers are facing in the workplace and inform strategies for organisational effectiveness. The Management Agenda provides a current snapshot of organisational … [Read more...] about The INGO Management Agenda 2012
How to Develop a Communications Policy for an NGO?
Developing a clear and consistent communications policy for your NGO will contribute to the fulfilment of your annual financial plan. Considering that contacting donors for general enquiry, updates, and day-to-day clarifications is vital to your NGO, it is important that the ways in which members of … [Read more...] about How to Develop a Communications Policy for an NGO?
A Free Manual on Human Resource Policy for Microfinance and NGOs
If your organization is implementing a microfinance project or setting up a microfinance company, it is important to consider its management requirements to make it sustainable and effective. Human resources development is a major component of building strong community-based institutions. If you … [Read more...] about A Free Manual on Human Resource Policy for Microfinance and NGOs
How NGOs can write Project Reports
Report writing is considered as a secondary task while implementing development projects. The efforts we put in writing or preparing our project reports are not even 25% of the efforts we put in our project activities. Most of the time we write the reports, in an apathetic manner obviously bound … [Read more...] about How NGOs can write Project Reports
Sample Admin Forms for Small NGOs
NGOs as legal entities are required to follow certain procedures while managing their institutions and projects. These procedures help strengthen the administration of the organization and also ensure its long-term growth based on principles of accountability and transparency. Many large … [Read more...] about Sample Admin Forms for Small NGOs
How NGOs can organize Effective Training Programmes
Capacity building is an important component of human resource development in an organization. By developing the capacities of human resources, the organizations as well as the employees make progress. However capacity building is not as simple as it appears at first instance. It demands a systematic … [Read more...] about How NGOs can organize Effective Training Programmes
