Six ways to structure your training course
There are lots of ways to structure your humanitarian training course. Here are six.
Why do aid agencies need to work out what is a skills problem and what is a process problem?
Have you ever sat in a training course and known that what they’re telling you about will not work? That there simply isn’t time to do this along with all the other things you’re being asked to do? That it seems like it might be nice, but the government ministry just won’t allow it? […]
Six Reasons why “Capacity Development” is NOT a helpful way to think about improving performance
There are good reasons to talk about “capacity development” or “capacity building”. Most of the time, that’s not the way I think about my work. Some of that is just a reaction because it seems like jargon to me. I don’t like jargon, though I’m as guilty of using it as everyone else is. […]
Training finance trainers
A large international organisation had a major focus on building the capacity of their partner’s finance functions. They were happy with a number of parts of their programmes – but the training they gave was not helping their partner’s finance teams change. Their budget and time was limited, and I was brought in to […]
