Organizational Capacity Building

"At its essence, WLP is a builder of networks. We develop partnerships with grassroots and established affinity organizations in different countries, then help nurture the effectiveness of these organizations by building their capacity and connecting them with other partners, international decision-makers, and WLP's own resources. Partners, in turn, nurture WLP."
- WLP Five Year Report 2000-2005: When Women Lead Change Follows

WLP aims to achieve widespread, sustainable change through cooperation with partner organizations. WLP activities strengthen the capacity of partners and other groups in over 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, who in turn mobilize hundreds of local organizations, who in turn train thousands of grassroots community members to be strong, motivated advocates for change.

WLP provides multidimensional and flexible capacity building, supporting partners to build strong, sustainable organizations.

We enable partners to develop the skills and access the resources, curriculum and technological tools they need to implement trainings in leadership and empowerment and ICTs.

We connect partner organizations with international social justice networks and support their efforts to build regional networks to advance women's rights.

To increase the visibility of our partners' work, we support partner campaigns, organize events, and publicize partner activities through our website, eNews, and media outlets.

We are currently developing new curriculum on organizational capacity building that will address organizational development, program evaluation, and innovative forms of training delivery.

Resources on Organizational Capacity Building

Profiles of Organization Development Experts
Multimedia: Women's Leadership and Institutional Change
Organization Directory for Civil Society Building

WLP Convenes Transnational Partners Meeting in Bangkok

WLP Partners in Bangkok Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) convened its 2005 Transnational Partners Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand from October 25-26, 2005, immediately preceding the 10th AWID International Forum. WLP partners from 13 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East attended. The focus of this strategy meeting was to further define the structure and identity of the WLP Partnership, and to strategize on ways to build our collective capacity and to ensure the future sustainability of our partnership model.

( categories: Organizational Capacity Building | Issue 13 (November) )

WLP Convenes Transnational Partners Meeting in Beirut

Teaching Reproductive Health The Women's Learning Partnership's (WLP) Transnational Partners Meeting convened in Beirut, Lebanon from September 24-28, 2004. Partners from 12 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East gathered for an intensive five-day brainstorming and strategy meeting on 1) expanding the programs of the WLP Partnership for empowering women and girls through culturally relevant approaches to leadership development and capacity-building and 2) strengthening and expanding linkages within the Partnership. The meeting was hosted by WLP's Lebanese partner, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A). During the meeting, partners exchanged best practices on enhancing women's leadership capacity at the grassroots, planned new programs and curricula for future development, and strategized on ways to strengthen the Partnership.

( categories: Organizational Capacity Building | Issue 9 (November) )

Learning Across Borders: Kyrgyz Students Discuss Women’s Rights and Islam with Asma Khader

Since its launch in September 2008, WLP's peer-exchange strategic planning and capacity building initiative has been a resounding success. Over the past year, we have seen fruitful exchanges between partners in several countries, including Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Nigeria. Our peer collaboration model has already evolved far beyond our initial hopes, producing not only deep organizational analyses and real results, but also a new level of creativity, outreach, and relationship building among partners and across regions.

( categories: Organizational Capacity Building )

Partnership Update: Six Countries Convene to Co-Create Culturally-Adaptable Strategic Planning and Capacity Building Curriculum

From August 30th to September 4th, WLP’s partners from Afghanistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, and Palestine gathered in Potomac, Maryland, for a Strategic Planning and Capacity Building Institute. This six-day program provided opportunities for a rich dialogue addressing partners’ expectations and experiences in implementing WLP’s participatory leadership methodology through trainings, advocacy, and organizational development. During the Institute, participants co-created a draft curriculum for organizational strategic planning and capacity building, developed a timetable for carrying out this strategic planning process with individual partner organizations, and undertook an intensive review of WLP's Leading to Choices curriculum and trainings after eight years of its implementation.

Confronting Crisis, Creating Change: WLP Partner Challenges and Strategies

2005-2006 has been a challenging year for WLP partners. Increasing insecurity due to wars and conflict in Lebanon and Palestine; rising extremism and fundamentalism in Afghanistan, Jordan, and Morocco; growing authoritarianism in political governance in Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe; and increasingly restrictive NGO legislation in Egypt are a few examples of the complex environments in which partner organizations are working to empower women.

afghanistan	bahrain	brazil	cameroon	egypt	india	indonesia	iran	jordan	kazakhstan	kyrgyzstan
lebanon	malaysia	mauritania	morocco	nicaragua	nigeria	pakistan	palestine	turkey	uzbekistan	zimbabwe

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