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Organisational Development

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Learning trajectory Civil Society and Capacity Development for professionals, October 2010
10/20/2010

The course is on 20, 21 and 22 October, with overnight accommodation

How can I, as professional, ensure that I make a real contribution to the capacity development of Civil Society?

Learning trajectory Civil Society and Capacity Development, autumn 2010
11/25/2010

It isn't that we know how to build capacity better today than we did yesterday - but the world has changed and yesterday's answers no longer achieve the goals we set ourselves.

Organisational learning as a tool for social change
14-07-2010

Learning as an individual happens almost as a matter of course. You make a mistake or a project goes particularly well and you remember that for future reference. But how does an organisation learn?

Framework for organisational learning
21-12-2009

In this document we describe Senge's five disciplines for organisational learning and Bruce Britton's eight key functions. We explain what each means for improving organisational learning in an organisation. The two distinct perspectives are linked to one another and we try to offer more than just a means of an organisation's learning capacity. 

Book: 7XChange
29-06-2009

In December 2008 Tear, in close cooperation with PSO, brought a number of her partner organisations to the Netherland to jointly learn on the management of organisational change processes. The process resulted in this publication, which provides an interesting overview of the challenges, successes and lessons learned, as well as useful tips on the management of change processes.

General impressions of the PSO Barefoot Guide workshop
18-06-2009

'It was a day well spent'

PSO and her South African partner, the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) organized the workshop 'Supporting the development of sovereign local organisations and social movements', which took place on the 4th of June 2009 at the Concordia Theatre in The Hague. The participants found it an inspiring meeting.

It takes two to Tango
18-05-2009

Engaging in a partnership on the basis of your own strength. Allowing yourself to lead, but also to be led by your partner. Connecting to the values that lie behind the visible actions. Relating with a mildness and firmness that makes the other party feel safe enough to experiment, safe enough to develop.

We are too much in 'to do' mode: Action Research into supporting International NGOs to learn
13-01-2009

This paper explores the organisational learning processes of development NGOs in the Netherlands. The paper investigates how these organisations think and talk about learning; how they learn in practice; and how action research can help support organisational learning.

Report: Shedding light on the black box of learning from training
06-12-2008

A report on research into the use of training by PSO member organisations in programmes and projects financed by PSO.

Practicing Action Research Methods
01-11-2008

We collected interesting stories of Dutch development/humanitarian organizations and their strains to learn from earlier actions and to create space for the learning processes of their Southern partners.

Quality Cards
24-10-2008

In 2007 PSO conducted research into the use of the PSO Quality Fund (for member organisations only). This page offers the research report as well as the original Quality Fund Cards. The cards are only available in Dutch

Training as a strategic tool for capacity development
03-03-2008

For a long time, capacity development was synonymous with training in the development cooperation sector. During the 1990s, the emphasis was increasingly shifted from training to organisational change and the resulting institutional development. In line with this trend PSO only uses training as part of a wide strategy. PSO is having the conditions in which the tool of training provides an effective contribution to sustainable capacity development studied.