Building a Theory of Change often requires that you work together with partners in multiples countries who work in their specific context, use their own software and probably also have different views on how ToC's work. How to get your ideas aligned? Or which tool are you going to you use to capture and visualise this constantly evolving view of reality?
This is a touching story of life of Toan, a participant with visual impairment who attended the Human Resource Management training delivered by MDF Asia Vietnam office under the USAID capacity development programme for local NGOs in Vietnam.
There are a number of useful behaviors or practices that can help a team to work effectively together. An obvious one is ensuring there is a clear and shared understanding about the context and purpose of their work. Without this shared understanding you don’t have a team, it’s just a group of people.
A manager of an international NGO told me about her disappointing experiences with so-called ‘self-steering’ teams. The idea of these teams is that they don't have a manager but instead decide together what work needs to be done. In general this means that these Agile teams perform better but below experience shows that even with highly-motivated professionals this doesn't always work.
Over 50 people attended the official launch of the Inclusive Business Accelerator (IBA) Hub on April 20th, 2017.