We offer a wide range of opportunities for organisations and individuals to exchange knowledge, skills and experience. As a network, we facilitate a variety of ways for members to interact and share, as well as create events to learn from experts in global sustainable development.
Mentoring
Mentoring is provided by our experienced mentors who have wide ranging expertise in organisational development. We offer a number of bespoke mentoring packages of support, as well as 10 hours mentoring for all organisational members of SIDA.
For more information about mentoring, visit the Mentoring page or email us.
Working Groups
Working Groups are member-led spaces designed to encourage peer learning and to convene work on issues of shared concern. Meetings of the working groups traditionally involve distinguished invited speakers as well as member presentations. Current working groups include: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL); Leave No One Behind (LNOB), Funding and Safeguarding and they are organised through our Members Hub.
For more information or to suggest setting up a new working group, visit the working groups page or head straight to the Members Hub to join the group that interests you. If you are interested in joining, or would like more information, please email us.
Training and Online Learning
Face-to-face training sessions and workshops are delivered by expert trainers in a range of locations across Scotland. Training sessions cover a range of topics each year including but not limited to: grant management, fundraising, safeguarding, IATI and transparency, and MEL.
Online training sessions and webinars allow members to join whether they are working from the home, office, or while travelling. They offer the chance for members to learn about a specific topic, upcoming funding opportunity or new resource in a short, online information session.
All training and online learning opportunities are free to SIDA members. Training courses are also available on request to non-member organisations where there is space available and for a fee of either £50 for a half day course, or £100 for a whole day course.
SIDA offers a training bursary to organisations with an income of less than £250,000 to access training offered by external providers and to help with travel costs. To find out more about the eligibility criteria, the amounts available and for information about how to apply, please visit the Members’ Training Fund page.
To see a list of upcoming events or view the recordings from past sessions, visit our Events page. If you would like more information, please email us.
SIDA publishes a series of online resources on a range of topics. Resources cover topics including: MEL; safeguarding; fundraising; and value for money. To search the archive, visit our resources page.
The Effectiveness Toolkit
SIDA has developed a practical organisational capacity assessment- Effectiveness Toolkit. The Effectiveness Toolkit enables an organisation to review its work both against a set of principles of good practice in international development and benchmarks of good operational practice.
SIDA Member Hub
The Member Hub is an online forum designed to encourage conversation, collaboration and partnership across the network. Members are able to ask questions and receive answers from their peers, whilst the SIDA team brokers connections between organisations to encourage peer learning, new partnerships and crowdsourced solutions to problems.
If you have any suggestions for how SIDA could better support your organisation to enhance its effectiveness, or, you would like to recommend a training topic, an idea for a working group session, or a resource for the website, then please get in touch with our team via email.