Capacity building

Building M&E capacity strengthens organisations. It allows teams and management to understand evidence about programmes and adapt strategies based on these insights. It also allows organisations to find and highlight their best practices towards their stakeholders and peers. 
 

Learning

Strong M&E systems allow organisations to learn through collecting and analysing data on their programmes. They also support the development of staff, who can better understand the linkages between activities and results.

Project and programme planning

Weaving meaningful monitoring practices and evaluation into projects as early as possible can improve efficiency, effectiveness and the relevance of activities, particularly to the advantage of beneficiaries, implementers and funders. 

Network & membership development

Membership organisations are distinct from single NGOs in the diversity of their members.This leads to risks in coming to common action but also offers substantial potential benefits.

Interim management

Unforeseen circumstances or more generally, the need to maintain an agile organisation, may require an experienced external manager to step in and support or lead an organisation from day one.

Meeting facilitation

As experienced organisational development experts, ODS consultants can step in and facilitate a meeting in the way you think is best suited to the objectives of that meeting. A good external facilitator can ensure equal participation, keep to the agenda and capture outcomes.

Templates & Checklists

Many recurring activities benefit from well-designed templates or checklists, to ensure consistency, lower the risk of omitting important questions and communicate clearly to others what they can expect from these activities.

Research

Using our experience working with a broad range of clients, including donors, CSOs, networks and public entities, we can design research frameworks which capture certain aspects of working in civil society in a more systematic way.