Capacity Building/Resourcing Options

You can invest in your funding partners through secondments of staff with useful expertise, so they work in the Non-Government Organisation for a set period. Or an Non-Government Organisation staff member might be seconded to government to gain particular skills or experience that will be beneficial to the community.

The Department of Internal Affairs administers the Community Internship Programme, which might be able to assist your secondment opportunity.

Training opportunities can also be provided to staff or volunteers from the community.  This might include involving them in training or workshops that you have arranged for your own staff, where the content or the speaker has relevance to their work also. (Often this may not involve any additional cost, as you are already covering the costs of the presenter/speaker.)  The opportunities for shared learning also offer additional benefits of generating new discussion and building sound working relationships with each other.

Collaborating on projects may make it possible for several organisations to acheive something they couldn't do alone. This can be done by sharing costs, responsibility and assignment of staff so that the burden is spread around.