Guidelines

The ideas and strategies offered in this guide have been developed from the collected experiences of NDI’s women’s political participation programs around the world and from the experiences of young women activists from North Africa who were a part of the “Youth of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow” initiative. Their ideas are combined with best practices and recommendations from NDI’s work with women leaders around the world.

A checklist of policies and other management systems necessary for NGOs to run effective organizations and mobilize resources for development work. This checklist includes: 1. Organizational Chart for your NGO; 2. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement in NGOs; 3. Leadership Succession Plan for your NGO; 4. Human Resource Management System for NGOs; 5. Job Descriptions for NGO Staff; 6. Personnel Policy; 7. Communications Policy; 8. Computer Policy; 9. Procurement Policy; 10. Fixed Assets Policy; 11. Finance Policy

A short guide introducing the importance of human resouce management for NGOs and how NGOs can implement it...Human resource management not only ensures better leadership and good goverance for your organization, it also has the prospect of attracting donor agencies to fund your projects...There are guidelines to set up policies and plans and also sample forms to apply the systems in your NGO.

This is a handbook for those embarking on an assessment of how to best assist human rights defenders either in a particular country or a region within a country. It is intended to guide a team in executing an assessment of how to create effective programs (e.g. capacity building training, financial assistance, advocacy support, etc) to assist human rights defenders (HRDs). Such a sensitive and critical program demands a tailoring to the needs and desires of the human rights defenders themselves and to the nuances of the country.

This kit will serve as a training tool for all media decision-makers and practitioners (editors, journalists reporting on education) and for communication officers working in ministries of education in Africa and the education sector. It will contribute to enhancing dialogue with ministers of education, senior officials at policy level, and funding partners to work together to include communication components in education
policies and programs, thus ensuring greater visibility and enhanced public support.

Donor funds are the lifeline of NGOs in developing countries. It is a fact that if there were not many donor funds available from developed nations, there would not really be so many organizations, as we see today. The NGOs have mushroomed more out of the supply of aid than out of the demand for more work with the community. Nevertheless, it is also a fact that these donor funds have tremendous limitations and restrictions that sometimes challenge the very ideals of social work. NGOs have known to implement projects based on certain conditions imposed by the donors.

Heber Vega, a humanitarian worker and photographer, originally from Chile, but now based in northern Iraq has come out with some tips for NGOs as to how they can use their photographs for their own benefit. In a recent post on his website, he mentions about the significance of NGOs raising awareness about their causes through photographs. Pictures can play a tremendously important role for NGOs in raising awareness about a cause.

A proposal is an essential marketing and document that helps cultivate an initial professional relationship between an organization and a donor over a project to be implemented. The proposal outlines the plan of the implementing organization about the project, giving extensive information about the intention, for implementing it, the ways to manage it and the results to be delivered from it.

link: http://www.fundsforngos.org/how-to-write-a-proposal/introduction-to-prop...

This manual is designed to help NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who may be interested in the field of Human Rights but feel that they do not know enough about it or where to start.

A Guide to Fundraising