Capacity building is a term that has taken on a great deal of importance over the past couple of decades. Effectively, “capacity building” refers to an organization improving or strengthening their skills, systems, and structures in order to perform more competitively. Another way to think of capacity building is that it is a long-term effort to give employees and/or organizations all the tools they need to adapt to changing conditions and overcome challenges as they strive to further their goals.
For organizations operating in the international development sector, capacity building is of particular importance because it helps them deliver more effective outcomes and improve local resilience in today’s highly dynamic and ever-changing operating environment. Capacity building can come in many forms, including hiring new staff members with particular qualifications, training existing staff to upgrade their skills and knowledge base, and learning how to improve workflows to increase efficiency, productivity, and achieve better outcomes for the organization as a whole.
As the global provider of information services in the sustainable development field, DevelopmentAid has a number of tools that are specifically designed to help your organization with its capacity building strategy and deliver outcomes that will strengthen your ability to complete your core missions.
How DevelopmentAid can help your capacity-building strategy
The concept of capacity building is inherently two-fold: first, you need to know what you need to do to improve, and second, how to find the information and resources needed to achieve that goal.
DevelopmentAid can help you with this by offering you access to one of the largest CV (curriculum vitae) databases of consultants working in the sector, including experienced professionals with the specific skills, expertise, and credentials to match any need, whether that’s recruiting for open positions or freelance consultations.
DevelopmentAid also has a substantial archive of webinars and video training materials conducted by leading experts in the sustainable development sector on a wide range of topics, including proposal writing tips, fundraising strategies, consortia establishment, Monitoring and Evaluation strategies, leadership, management, and procurement procedures. These webinars and training resources are not available anywhere else and are offered exclusively for DevelopmentAid members.
DevelopmentAid CV database
DevelopmentAid maintains one of the largest individual experts’ CV databases in the aid sector.
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Boasting more than 100,000 records, each in 4 major donor formats (European Commission, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and the African Development Bank), this database comes with a powerful search engine to quickly and easily surface relevant results.
Moreover, its advanced filtering functionality allows you to quickly and easily search for suitable profiles by a number of criteria, including languages spoken, educational attainment, organizational experience, qualifications, and area of specialty, amongst others.
Please note that access to the CV Database is only available with a paid DevelopmentAid membership.
Webinars/Video training
Long before the global pandemic made video conferencing and online training omnipresent, DevelopmentAid began a program to record webinars and other educational sessions so that the knowledge imparted by expert professionals working in the development sector could be shared with others.
Currently, there are more than 88 webinars and video recordings in the DevelopmentAid archive, and that number is growing all the time. These webinars and training videos were conducted by some of the top professionals in the field, including directors and department chiefs of multilateral institutions, multinational banks, major NGOs, and other experts with years of insider experience in the day-to-day operations of sustainable development organizations.
Some of the topics included in the DevelopmentAid webinar archive include:
- Lessons in leadership, including thriving under pressure
- Working with multinational banks
- Working with multilateral institutions like the UN
- Procurement procedures
- Management
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Recruitment procedures of multilateral/multinational organizations
- And much more
Please note that these highly informative and educational webinars are not available publicly and are only accessible to paid DevelopmentAid members.
Conclusion
Managers working in the development sector know how critical it is to have a capable and skilled team able to achieve lasting impact on the ground. Continuous investment in their team’s capacity building is the cornerstone of sustainability and development.
In your effort to ensure sustainable development, DevelopmentAid is a significant boost to your capacity-building strategy, helping you find the most qualified individuals to hire and/or to consult with, as well as delivering the finest educational resources available in the form of pre-recorded webinars and video training materials. Whether you need to speak with a development professional with more than 20 years of experience or want to learn the ins and outs of a donor agency or development organization’s procurement or hiring practices, DevelopmentAid has you covered.
If you’d like to learn more about how a paid DevelopmentAid membership can help your organization’s capacity-building strategy, do not hesitate to contact us today. DevelopmentAid has a number of different membership options available, including for small companies and non-profit organizations.
