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.
Training and Online Learning
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. Topics are selected based on member need, and may include themes of fundraising, communications, safeguarding, governance, AI, climate justice, monitoring and evaluation, global citizenship, decolonisation and more. All training and online learning opportunities are free to SIDA members.
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.
Conferences
SIDA hosts an annual conference and a spring conference every year. Conferences are an opportunity for members and non members to come along in person, or join online, and hear from community speakers and experts on a selected theme, ask questions, network, participate in workshops and speak with stallholders. Conferences are the biggest community events across the year SIDA hosts for its members.
Working Groups
We host member-led spaces designed to encourage peer learning to convene work on issues of shared concern to strengthen the community. At present, we are running the Leader Knowledge Exchange Forum which aims to bring together leaders from across the sector to knowledge share, network and peer support via quarterly meetings.
For more information or to suggest setting up a new working group, or would like more information, please email us.
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.
Resources
SIDA shares many resources on our website which may be of help to our members in reaching their organisational aims. SIDA publishes original resources as well as sharing useful resources of members, partners and organisations across the sector to provide tools, guidance and support to members. Resources cover topics including: MEL, safeguarding, fundraising, and more. To search the library, 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.
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.