DEV’S Consulting has undertaken a vast number of training assignments over the course of our seven years of existence, including community fundraising, proposal writing, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), strategic planning, community resources mobilization, finance, marketing, communication, leadership, consultation, advocacy, administration, youth employability, job preparation, life skills, gender programming, client skills, community participation, training of trainers (TOT), how to implement the Capacity Assessment Tool (CAT) and the Participatory Organizational Needs Assessment Tool (PONAT), project cycle management (PCM), community profiling of individuals, organisations and the Logical Framework Approach (LFA or ‘log-frame’).
These training sessions have been delivered to more than 50 civil society organizations, targeting vast swathes of Palestinian communities.
CAPACITY BUILDING
DEV’S takes a systems approach to capacity building that encourages changes in ways of thinking, acting and organizing that takes one away from the traditional linear concept of development to a more dynamic view in which a process is influenced by a diversity of factors interacting simultaneously.
In its capacity-building efforts, DEV’S focuses on both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ capacities, building skills in PCM, M&E, and financial management, for example, while simultaneously guiding participants to improve their abilities to build and sustain relationships, garner ongoing commitment and loyalty, and internalize values and principles.
DEV’S capacity-building efforts aim to help participants capitalize on the enabling aspects of the Palestinian development environment while mitigating, circumventing, or challenging constraints they face in their development efforts. In all stages of capacity building, DEV’S encourages and fosters cooperation and collaboration among partners in order to increase the sustainability of efforts and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the work being carried out.
DEVS has trained over 35 Community-based organizations leadership structures on governance and effective management of projects.
Key areas have been, Board management and governance, communication for both internal and external stakeholders, internal controls including setting organizational systems and structures right from governance documents.
WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE DEV’S
Training in development topics, such as project cycle management, the logical framework, and monitoring and evaluation has too often resulted in trainees’ ability to simply fulfil bureaucratic requirements of donors and complete necessary documents for proposal submission.
In many cases, these documents are completed for the proposal and never used again throughout the life of the project.
Through DEV’S training methodology, the principles of accountability, relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and participation, which are the building blocks of development programming, are instilled in participants so that they can benefit from and internalize the process of identifying their community’s needs, formulating relevant projects, and monitoring and evaluating their work.
Real-life examples and case studies are used to make training sessions interactive and engaging. From brainstorming sessions to role-playing activities, we create opportunities for participants to take an active part in their development.