18
2015
MIID’s CSO Capacity Building project team returned from a second round of coaching visits with partners in Shan State last week. The project provides organisational development support for partner CSOs, with the ultimate goal of building up strong local organizations that can help to enable sustainable economic development in the region.
There are 12 partners based in Pindiya, Pwe Hla, Nyaung Shwe, Taunggyi, Tachileik, Kyaington, Hsipaw, Kyauk Me and Nyaung Cho. Coaching topics have included strategic planning, project management, financial management, and human resources.
A highlight from the recent coaching trip was a three-day strategic planning workshop with the northern Shan-based CSOs in Kyauk Me. This helped participants carry out external and internal analyses that will inform strategic plans for their organisations, to be completed during the next visit later this year.
“We understand clearly about strategic planning through discussion and thinking”, said Daw Nan Cho Cho, Director of Nan Htike San CSO in Kyauk Me, adding, “now we are writing a proposal based on the knowledge we have learned from training and coaching”.
Feedback from the CSOs has shown that the project, which involves a series of five-day training sessions where CSOs come together as well as the coaching visits, is a good way to support organisational development. So far two five-day training sessions have taken place, in Taunggyi and Lashio, along with 45 days of coaching.
The CSO Strengthening project is supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, which promotes sustainable economic development in Myanmar on behalf of the Federal German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).