The document discusses the Alliance Assessment Framework, which is used by USAID missions and projects to evaluate partnerships with the private sector and other organizations. It highlights examples of how assessments have helped facilitate innovative partnerships in non-traditional sectors. The framework offers a tool to inform mission strategy and partnerships within projects. Discussions are focused on improving the framework so it can complement other processes like the CDCS.
From the Ontario Trillium Foundation 2009 Professional Development Conference
According to a recent Kellogg Foundation report, if an organization builds a culture that systematically supports innovation, the ideas will come. The key is to be deliberate, open to ideas from anywhere, comfortable with unpredictability, and generous in sharing learnings – all great approaches to building a social infrastructure for youth organizing and engagement in Ontario. Young people are already making significant contributions to their communities, and now is the time to sustain and increase that activity.
In March 2009, OTF partnered with the Laidlaw Foundation and Tides Canada to create the conditions that would allow youth-led and youth-serving organizations to connect with each other, share resources and develop new knowledge and practices. 50 young people from diverse sectors and groups agreed on the need for a coordinated provincial model, but where they go from there is deliberately unplanned. No required changes have been identified up front, and no expected outcomes have been proposed. The only certainty is that a strong foundation is being built for future generations. Work through a fascinating case study on this unique process to find out more about:
- the five stages of intentional innovation;
- thinking big and trusting to “wisdom of crowds”;
- the definition of a social infrastructure; and
- the kind of supports needed by youth to strengthen their work
Presenters:
Abe Drennan, Program Director, The Switch Yard Centre
Arti Freeman, OTF Program Manager, Province-Wide,
Planning with not for: Rural transportation and equityRPO America
During the 2020 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, National Association of Development Organizations Associate Director Carrie Kissel discussed issues in rural demographic change, social equity, and incorporating equity and justice into the work of rural transportation organizations.
Twyfords collaborative governance pathway; when business as usual is never li...Max Hardy
So what is involved in approaching something wickedly complex and involves many stakeholders with deeply held differing perspectives? Check out this presentation and consider whether the time is right to do something quite different. It might seem risky, but in our experience it is the least risky approach you could take.
From the Ontario Trillium Foundation 2009 Professional Development Conference
According to a recent Kellogg Foundation report, if an organization builds a culture that systematically supports innovation, the ideas will come. The key is to be deliberate, open to ideas from anywhere, comfortable with unpredictability, and generous in sharing learnings – all great approaches to building a social infrastructure for youth organizing and engagement in Ontario. Young people are already making significant contributions to their communities, and now is the time to sustain and increase that activity.
In March 2009, OTF partnered with the Laidlaw Foundation and Tides Canada to create the conditions that would allow youth-led and youth-serving organizations to connect with each other, share resources and develop new knowledge and practices. 50 young people from diverse sectors and groups agreed on the need for a coordinated provincial model, but where they go from there is deliberately unplanned. No required changes have been identified up front, and no expected outcomes have been proposed. The only certainty is that a strong foundation is being built for future generations. Work through a fascinating case study on this unique process to find out more about:
- the five stages of intentional innovation;
- thinking big and trusting to “wisdom of crowds”;
- the definition of a social infrastructure; and
- the kind of supports needed by youth to strengthen their work
Presenters:
Abe Drennan, Program Director, The Switch Yard Centre
Arti Freeman, OTF Program Manager, Province-Wide,
Planning with not for: Rural transportation and equityRPO America
During the 2020 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, National Association of Development Organizations Associate Director Carrie Kissel discussed issues in rural demographic change, social equity, and incorporating equity and justice into the work of rural transportation organizations.
Twyfords collaborative governance pathway; when business as usual is never li...Max Hardy
So what is involved in approaching something wickedly complex and involves many stakeholders with deeply held differing perspectives? Check out this presentation and consider whether the time is right to do something quite different. It might seem risky, but in our experience it is the least risky approach you could take.
Learning Lab: A Creative and Arts-Based Approach to Equitable Recoverynado-web
Art-Train is a virtual technical assistance program that is free for artists everywhere and low cost for municipal agencies, community non-profits, and arts councils. It translates American Rescue Plan Local Fiscal Recovery Fund guidelines and shares arts-based approaches to build locally-rooted collaborations that address critical recovery and rebuilding needs including workforce development, economic growth, public health, housing, infrastructure, and civic engagement. During this session, participants will learn how to navigate and advocate for ARP flexible funding as a means to rebuild equity-centered civic and economic vitality and gain skills to frame and translate their recovery goals into formats that will be supported by multiple funding sources.
-Michael Rohd, Artist for Civic Imagination, Center for Performance and Civic Practice, Phoenix, AZ
-Jun-Li Wang, Associate Director, Programs, Springboard for the Arts, St. Paul, MN (virtual)
Capacity Development for Enhanced Sustainability and ImpactFAO
http://www.fao.org/capacitydevelopment/en/
Presented during the From Protection to Production project Consultative Workshop, 17-18 September 2013, Accra, Ghana
Listening Session: Aligning EDDs with State Economic Development Planningnado-web
The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness
(CREC) is partnering with the NADO Research
Foundation and other organizations to better
coordinate state and regional economic development
planning efforts, including addressing challenges and
opportunities for aligning the Comprehensive Economic
Development Strategy (CEDS) with state economic
development plans. Join this discussion to learn more
and share your experiences and input to help guide
this multi-year project that will support NADO members
and their state partners with training, resources, and
networking.
-Bob Isaacson, Senior VP, Center for Regional Economic
Competitiveness, Arlington, VA
WBCSD Latin American Network of Inclusive Business Leadersfveglio
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is the leading business organization to advocate market-based solutions to development and environment challenges. The WBCSD is coordinating a Latin American Network of Inclusive Business Leaders, which convenes forward-looking CEOs of national and international companies with operations in Latin America committed to championing the cause of inclusive business to both their peers and governments.
ULOs: 2010 and beyond conference -- Cambridgeshire ULORich Watts
On 12 March 2010, the Department of Health hosted a conference on User-Led Organisations, called "ULOs: 2010 and beyond".
In this presentation, colleagues from the Cambridgeshire ULO, Cambridgeshire CC and ECDP talk about the lessons learnt from setting up a new ULO.
Washington State University
Washington Rural Pathways to Prosperity Conference
Washington State University’s (WSU) Rural Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) is a statewide economic development leadership conference that uses a unique approach to reach rural communities, revive the economy, and strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem. P2P applies the WSU Distributed Conference Model (DCM), which uses technology to connect multiple sites simultaneously to create a groundswell of self-motivated, rural entrepreneurship activity in communities across the state. Only in its second year, this conference has motivated communities to explore co-working spaces, entrepreneur clubs, a collaborative food hub and more, demonstrating WSU Extension’s leadership and convening power for rural economic development. The conference begins with an interactive webinar featuring a national expert who delivers content relevant to all of the geographically dispersed sites. Issues and opportunities introduced by the speaker as well as those identified by regional participants are addressed through well-designed and adaptable activities. Local community and business leaders, who receive DCM training by WSU faculty, serve as facilitators at the sites, guiding participants through work sessions.
Monica Babine, Senior Associate, Washington State University
Debra Hansen, County Director, Washington State University Extension
How do we mobilise people around shared outcomes?Noel Hatch
Whole systems change across a neighbourhood
How can we collaborate with people to help them build their resilience? Get under the skin of the culture and the lives people live. Identify people’s feelings and experiences of community and understand what people think is shaped by different values and by the environment and infrastructure around them. The future of collaboration could bring many opportunities but people find it more difficult to live and act together than before. How can we help people…and communities build their resilience? Understand people’s different situations and capabilities to develop pathways that help them build resilient relationships. Help people experience and practice change together. Help people grow everyday practices into sustainable projects. Turn people’s everyday motivations into design principles. Support infrastructure that connects different cultures of collaboration. Build relationships with people designing in collaboration for the future…now.
How to build foresight into policy makingNoel Hatch
Uncertainty and complexity define our today and tomorrow. Systems and organisations need a real understanding of the potential futures in order to make the most fit for purpose choices today.
School of International Futures recently worked with GOS to showcase how different governments use foresight and futures techniques. This includes a framework that sets out the key features of effective cross-government foresight work and how organisations and systems can build a resilient approach to incorporating.
We will present the framework, give chance for questions and then support you to consider implications in your own system
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london-policy-amp-strategy-network-31019071129
Xtiva’s DOL Readiness Program helps investment firms – broker-dealers and RIAs – navigate in the new DOL fiduciary rule environment and increase their confidence that they can successfully comply with the DOL rule and ensure their organization and advisors are well positioned to succeed.
Space Foundation New Generation -- Young Professionals ProgramSpace Foundation
Founded in 2008, the Space Foundation’s New Generation initiatives target aerospace professionals 35 and younger. The program fosters meaningful, long-term peer relationships by providing access to top space leaders through program opportunities at Space Symposium and throughout the year. Our goal is to fuel the future for young professionals and be the driving force in helping them launch their careers further.
Publiek15. Het Venture Philantropy Fonds. Benoît FontainePubliek Centraal
Publiek15, inspiratiedag van Publiek Centraal op 24 maart 2015 in Leuven
Sessie: Het Venture Philantropy Fonds.
Spreker: Benoît Fontaine (Koning Boudewijnstichting)
[Infographic]
ScaleForth is a 7-point framework that provides a holistic approach to effectively scale impact.
[ Seven tools and strategies that social enterprises can deploy to achieve more with less ]
Learning Lab: A Creative and Arts-Based Approach to Equitable Recoverynado-web
Art-Train is a virtual technical assistance program that is free for artists everywhere and low cost for municipal agencies, community non-profits, and arts councils. It translates American Rescue Plan Local Fiscal Recovery Fund guidelines and shares arts-based approaches to build locally-rooted collaborations that address critical recovery and rebuilding needs including workforce development, economic growth, public health, housing, infrastructure, and civic engagement. During this session, participants will learn how to navigate and advocate for ARP flexible funding as a means to rebuild equity-centered civic and economic vitality and gain skills to frame and translate their recovery goals into formats that will be supported by multiple funding sources.
-Michael Rohd, Artist for Civic Imagination, Center for Performance and Civic Practice, Phoenix, AZ
-Jun-Li Wang, Associate Director, Programs, Springboard for the Arts, St. Paul, MN (virtual)
Capacity Development for Enhanced Sustainability and ImpactFAO
http://www.fao.org/capacitydevelopment/en/
Presented during the From Protection to Production project Consultative Workshop, 17-18 September 2013, Accra, Ghana
Listening Session: Aligning EDDs with State Economic Development Planningnado-web
The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness
(CREC) is partnering with the NADO Research
Foundation and other organizations to better
coordinate state and regional economic development
planning efforts, including addressing challenges and
opportunities for aligning the Comprehensive Economic
Development Strategy (CEDS) with state economic
development plans. Join this discussion to learn more
and share your experiences and input to help guide
this multi-year project that will support NADO members
and their state partners with training, resources, and
networking.
-Bob Isaacson, Senior VP, Center for Regional Economic
Competitiveness, Arlington, VA
WBCSD Latin American Network of Inclusive Business Leadersfveglio
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is the leading business organization to advocate market-based solutions to development and environment challenges. The WBCSD is coordinating a Latin American Network of Inclusive Business Leaders, which convenes forward-looking CEOs of national and international companies with operations in Latin America committed to championing the cause of inclusive business to both their peers and governments.
ULOs: 2010 and beyond conference -- Cambridgeshire ULORich Watts
On 12 March 2010, the Department of Health hosted a conference on User-Led Organisations, called "ULOs: 2010 and beyond".
In this presentation, colleagues from the Cambridgeshire ULO, Cambridgeshire CC and ECDP talk about the lessons learnt from setting up a new ULO.
Washington State University
Washington Rural Pathways to Prosperity Conference
Washington State University’s (WSU) Rural Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) is a statewide economic development leadership conference that uses a unique approach to reach rural communities, revive the economy, and strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem. P2P applies the WSU Distributed Conference Model (DCM), which uses technology to connect multiple sites simultaneously to create a groundswell of self-motivated, rural entrepreneurship activity in communities across the state. Only in its second year, this conference has motivated communities to explore co-working spaces, entrepreneur clubs, a collaborative food hub and more, demonstrating WSU Extension’s leadership and convening power for rural economic development. The conference begins with an interactive webinar featuring a national expert who delivers content relevant to all of the geographically dispersed sites. Issues and opportunities introduced by the speaker as well as those identified by regional participants are addressed through well-designed and adaptable activities. Local community and business leaders, who receive DCM training by WSU faculty, serve as facilitators at the sites, guiding participants through work sessions.
Monica Babine, Senior Associate, Washington State University
Debra Hansen, County Director, Washington State University Extension
How do we mobilise people around shared outcomes?Noel Hatch
Whole systems change across a neighbourhood
How can we collaborate with people to help them build their resilience? Get under the skin of the culture and the lives people live. Identify people’s feelings and experiences of community and understand what people think is shaped by different values and by the environment and infrastructure around them. The future of collaboration could bring many opportunities but people find it more difficult to live and act together than before. How can we help people…and communities build their resilience? Understand people’s different situations and capabilities to develop pathways that help them build resilient relationships. Help people experience and practice change together. Help people grow everyday practices into sustainable projects. Turn people’s everyday motivations into design principles. Support infrastructure that connects different cultures of collaboration. Build relationships with people designing in collaboration for the future…now.
How to build foresight into policy makingNoel Hatch
Uncertainty and complexity define our today and tomorrow. Systems and organisations need a real understanding of the potential futures in order to make the most fit for purpose choices today.
School of International Futures recently worked with GOS to showcase how different governments use foresight and futures techniques. This includes a framework that sets out the key features of effective cross-government foresight work and how organisations and systems can build a resilient approach to incorporating.
We will present the framework, give chance for questions and then support you to consider implications in your own system
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london-policy-amp-strategy-network-31019071129
Xtiva’s DOL Readiness Program helps investment firms – broker-dealers and RIAs – navigate in the new DOL fiduciary rule environment and increase their confidence that they can successfully comply with the DOL rule and ensure their organization and advisors are well positioned to succeed.
Space Foundation New Generation -- Young Professionals ProgramSpace Foundation
Founded in 2008, the Space Foundation’s New Generation initiatives target aerospace professionals 35 and younger. The program fosters meaningful, long-term peer relationships by providing access to top space leaders through program opportunities at Space Symposium and throughout the year. Our goal is to fuel the future for young professionals and be the driving force in helping them launch their careers further.
Publiek15. Het Venture Philantropy Fonds. Benoît FontainePubliek Centraal
Publiek15, inspiratiedag van Publiek Centraal op 24 maart 2015 in Leuven
Sessie: Het Venture Philantropy Fonds.
Spreker: Benoît Fontaine (Koning Boudewijnstichting)
[Infographic]
ScaleForth is a 7-point framework that provides a holistic approach to effectively scale impact.
[ Seven tools and strategies that social enterprises can deploy to achieve more with less ]
Availpro
Antoine Buhl, Directeur technique
Availpro présentera sa nouvelle solution RateScreener qui permet aux hôteliers d’optimiser les prix de vente de leur hôtel de manière simple et rapide. Grâce à cet outil, l’hôtelier dispose d’une visibilité claire du positionnement prix de son hôtel par rapport à la concurrence et des ventes qu’il a déjà réalisées.
Lesson 2 of 4
In this lesson, we came to terms with the horrific consequences of the conflict in Sri Lanka. Having considered the political consequences of armed conflict and foreign intervention, we then studied how clash between the LTTE and the army led to great economic and social devastation on the beautiful island of Sri Lanka.
Nazi Germany - hitler strong leader or weak dictatormrmarr
This page considers decision-making in the Third Reich, including the debate about whether Hitler was a strong leader or in fact a weak dictator that was beholden to other interests.
This set of slides combines Parts 2 & 3 of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 1 was already sent as a video). Part 2 focuses on the escalation of tensions that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis and how it brought the world close to nuclear war. Part 3 focuses on the resolution of the conflict and how it impacted the parties involved.
The slides are a bit bare for now, but this is the very quick summary of the important events and developments in Chapter 6. We learnt about Japan's history and how it affected its rise to global power. We saw how the crises in Japan as well as external forces led Japan into conflict with the nations around it, eventually culminating in WWII in Asia.
This document contains evidence that supports some of the ideas proposed by MaFI members in the MaFI-festo and in the Systemic M&E initiative. Development is also about relationships, not just about technicalities and money; reality is complex; flexibility and ability of practitioners to connect and leverage the system's resources are key; etc.
Taking the CEDS to the Next Level Through the Content Guidelinesnado-web
This presentation was delivered at NADO's Annual Training Conference, held in Anchorage, Alaska on September 9-12, 2017.
The U.S. Economic Development Administration’s 2015 CEDS Content Guidelines ushered in a new era in CEDS planning, design, and implementation. This session will explore the ins and outs of the Content Guidelines, feature examples of CEDS that have embraced the opportunities provided by this framework, and explore additional key areas such as performance metrics, alignment with other planning processes, and engagement strategies to “tell the story of the CEDS” to key constituencies, including your board and CEDS Committee.
Nathan Ohle, Executive Director, Rural Community Assistance Partnership, Washington, DC
Aaron Sizemore, Executive Director, Mount Rogers Planning District Commission, Marion, VA
Matthew Suchodolski, Management Analyst, EDI, U.S. EDA, Philadelphia, PA
Thinking About CSR in Practice: learnings from decades in the trenchesWayne Dunn
Lecture delivered to the McGill Institute for the Study of International Development’s Executive Program on Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Management, Accra, Ghana, Nov 6, 2013
From Strategy to Practice: The Tonle Sap InitiativeOlivier Serrat
Consumptive use of the Tonle Sap's natural capital is intense. The Tonle Sap Basin Strategy promotes an approach that conserves nature and offers the promise of sustainable development. Informed by principles that fix attention to sustainable livelihoods, social justice, and a basin-wide approach, the development objectives are to foster, promote, and facilitate pro-poor, sustainable economic growth; access to assets; and management of natural resources and the environment.
This document is meant to spark conversations and stimulate thinking around the mission-oriented framework, including the fundamentals about "mission": evolution, concept and some lessons. This deck also serves the purpose of systematising questions from Camden Council, step-by-step implementation recommendations and case studies.
Measuring the Blended Value of Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Ent...Karim Harji
Presentation to the Canadian Evaluation Society Annual Conference, Ottawa, June 2, 2009
Innovative evaluation methods and tools are emerging in the fields of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social enterprise. The focus of these innovations is the measurement of the “blended value” (financial, social and environmental) that is created by CSR and social enterprise, which is of interest to social investors, “philanthrocapitalists” and governments.
This panel will summarize findings-in-process from ongoing applications in these spheres in Ontario, Ghana and other developing-world settings. There are advantages and challenges in applying “blended value” approaches that the presenters will examine. The panelists will also discuss the implications of these findings for the theory and practice of evaluation.
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Brown Bag March 21, 2011
1. a REAL CHALLENGES. REAL SOLUTIONS. Alliance Assessments: Informing Strategy, Innovating Projects Presented by Steve Schmida, SSG Advisors
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3. Alliances: The Promise and the Reality “ Conceptually, I am a fan of partnerships with the private sector. However, these alliances sound great until you actually look under the hood of them. Typically, they are a mess and a distraction to the Mission.” -USAID Mission Director (retired) “… We will look at doing things in more innovative ways, often with the private sector – private companies or private foundations – to really bring a higher level of innovation to the area of development and to bring that creativity and risk taking that often does lead to some of the most important breakthroughs on behalf of the world’s poorest populations.” - USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah
These two quotes highlight the paradox of alliances. On the one hand, most everyone agrees that public-private collaboration is a good thing and needs to be a priority. On the other hand, alliances can be a time-consuming and messy exercise. This particular MD oversaw some of USAID’s best known alliances, so it is telling that they would say something like this. ODP/PSA developed the alliance assessment framework as a tool for USAID and it partners to sharpen its focus in building alliances. The underlying assumption is that by integrating alliance-building with program strategy we can focus on fewer, more strategic alliances that deliver results for USAID, the private sector and our beneficiaries.
How does the alliance assessment process get us to higher value alliances? Mapping of the Private Sector – new, emergent industries, problematic industries and dominant industries. Review of USAID program priorities, including key initiatives Interviews with companies, business associations, focus groups. Have also done surveys ID of 5-10 alliance themes/opportunities where engagement has strategic value for both USAID and the private sector. Building alliances is a time-consuming and complex process. The assessment seeks to ease this by providing offering recommendations for how priority alliances can be built. This enables Missions to not only uncover new opportunities but to also leverage best practice from around the world.
In Russia, USAID’s overall budget is a rounding error for most larger Russian firms. In addition, there is deep mistrust of the USG. USAID/Russia has been a real pioneer in partnerships, eg SUAL, etc The Alliance Assessment enabled the Mission to identify a series of new areas that aligned with the Obama Admin’s ‘strategic reset’ in civil society development and clean energy. These areas are now being incorporated into solicitations and new projects. In South Africa, USAID also finds itself with a budget that is minute compared to the overall economy. However, it also finds itself in one of the most partnership rich environments on the planet. Great companies with a very strong grasp of the impact of social and health issues on their bottom line. Here, the Mission was particularly concerned regarding its small non-health portfolio and how they could use very modest resources in a catalytic fashion to spur private sector investment in areas such as education. The Mission also felt they were constantly being pre-empted on partnerships by other agencies, DC and even the local private sector. By conducting an assessment and strategy they wanted to be able to focus staff resources on those partnerships that could maximize impact.
While the bulk of assessment conducted to date have been for USAID Missions to look across their portfolio, more recently, the assessment framework has been used as a tool during the baseline phase of new projects. For implementing partners, the assessment gives a 360 degree view of opportunities for engagement with the private sector. The assessment uncovers project level opportunities that are tightly aligned with project objectives. For USAID, the project level assessment can be a way of promoting partnerships without having the implementing partner ‘pre-cook’ them. In other words, rather than have a contractor propose alliances in the RFP stage, USAID can have the contractor conduct an assessment and the USAID select the opportunities that offer the greatest value to the Mission.
Traditionally, most USAID alliances have fallen in the EG/ag, Health or education sectors. There have been some DG alliances, but they are still the exception not the rule. Uncovering alliance opportunities in non-traditional sectors can be difficult as the intersection of USAID and private sector interests may not always be obvious. By analyzing trends across a wide range of industries and interviewing a diverse range of company representatives. For example, in West Africa we asked banks and telecommunications firms about how conflict impacts their business – this is a question USAID typically doesn’t ask of a bank. Example 1: USAID has been supporting a Conflict Early Warning System in West Africa for the last several years. However, the audience for the warning reports is largely limited to government bodies. Through the alliance assessment we uncovered businesses that were interested in working with USAID to both improve the conflict warning itself – through integration of political risk analysis conducted for the international investment community – and broaden the audience for the reporting to include civil society, media and the business leaders. By leveraging the expertise of a regional investment bank and the networks of industry leaders, this alliance can increase both the effectiveness and scale of existing USAID efforts. In the longer term it could also improve the sustainability. The second example comes from Afghanistan where mobile operators are interested in working with the municipality to provide SMS-based crowd-sourcing feedback on municipal services, supported by a platform such as Ushahidi. For the operators, the service gets more customers using the mobiles for services beyond voice. For the municipality, it will allow real-time feedback and mapping of service delivery issues – particularly solid waste removal – a key focal point of the project. For local residents, it will provide a feedback loop to their government and enable them to monitor service delivery in their neighborhood.
This is a brand new effort to use the alliance assessment not just as an analytical tool, but also as a capacity-building opportunity for a local organization. In this instance, the organization in question has a good track record of fund-raising, but has struggled to get beyond fundraising and unlock other ways the private sector can provide value (career development, OJT, internships, ICT support, distribution networks, etc). The goal here is not to build alliances for USAID, but rather for a promising local civil society organization.