Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Management

Course details

This course offers participants with relevant information on non-governmental organizations management. It focuses on the key issues in the management of NGOs emphasizing organizations working on development issues and reduction of poverty in undeveloped regions.
Understanding NGOs

• NGO stages
• Building an NGO
• Need assessment of NGO
• SWOT analysis
• Legal requirements of NGOs

Vision, mission, principles, and strategies of NGOs

• Governance and leadership of NGO
• Strategy and mission of NGO
• The principle-based vision of NGO
• Gender policy in NGOs
• Structure and system of NGO

Institutional sustainability

• Techniques for building institutional sustainability
• Projects sustainability
• Personnel training and sustainability
• Sustainability through networking
• A shortcoming of developing a network

Managing people

• NGO structure
• Formal NGO
• Staff specialization
• Principle development and maintenance
• Western and African organizational model
• Improving functioning of staff
• Supervision
• Creating and maintaining a board
• Team functioning
• Organizational sustainability

Marketing

• Development of NGO brand
• Fundraisings
• NGO financial needs planning
• Marketing through social media
• Financial institutions

Financial resources mobilization and management

• Budget making approaches
• Budgeting role
• Money management
• Resource management
• Financial control
• Financial management
• Management accounting vs financial accounting
• Rules of accounting

Project cycle

• NGO performance monitoring and evaluation
• Planning and implementation
• Evaluation strategies
• Tools for monitoring and evaluation
• Indicators of performance
• Logical framework approach
• Theory based evaluation
• Appraisals and participatory methods
• Four impact evaluation models

Updated on 24 January, 2021