You may have seen the design for a slow cooker which cooks beans in 12 hours, using thick insulation and the sun’s heat? Now an NGO in Sudan has developed a refrigerating “zeer” pot which stores 10 kg of food for up to 20 days! Go to practicalaction.org – you will also find a video on the donkey cart ambulance, which has helped women in child births that have gone wrong to get to where they can be helped.
This expanded edition of Bryan Walker’s manual is updated and restructured, and has a new section of games and learning activities. » Download directly from the Library
Do you get the Drumbeat newsletter? Every so often they send out an issue on Awards and funding. These tend to be small-scale and specific to people or areas – but if you fit these conditions…why not try? For example, New Field Foundation has grant money and wants the submission of introductory information from organisations in certain areas of West Africa that are: headed by African women; working to improve rural women’s organisations, their families, communities, and countries etc; Deadline: Rolling > New Field Foundation Grants
Good project management is essential for being an effective NGO. The Somali version of our PCM manual, Maareynta Wareega Mashruuca is now available for download in the library. Thanks to Abdinasir for this translation.
Here at Networklearning we have found another reason to like checklists. They are a great way of ensuring good training and improving the way professionals do their work. And now a checklist is saving lives. A study carried in eight hospitals across the world has found that using one during major operations cut deaths and complications by more than a third. It ensured that the surgical team checked that they had the right patient, checked that all the swabs and forceps were removed before the patient was sewn up, and so on. Has your organisation developed any checklists for your own workers? We would be very interested to hear about any improvements it has made. Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Our brand new Organizational Management skills section gives the lowdown on all you need to know about running a good ship. Strategic planning… Human resource management… Office management… Financial management…
Project Cycle Management (PCM) ensures that all aspects of a project are included in the management process. Our newly revised short manual Managing the Project Cycle (21 pages) guides you clearly through the four phases of PCM.