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Handy Hints – Fundraising Title: 1) crowdfunding, 2) corporate support, 3) in-kind/pro-bono, 4) individual donors Author: Helen Harvey Date: 2017 Length: 3 pages Resource type: PDF report Summary: 1) Want to know if crowdfunding is for you? Have a read of this quick guide to crowdfunding to understand how it works, the pros and cons Continue reading “Handy Hints – Fundraising”
Title: Lobbying register guidance Author: Scottish Parliament Date: March 2018 Length: 20 pages, 32 pages, 6 pages, 2 pages Resource type: PDF report Summary: From Monday 12 March 2018 all regulated lobbying in Scotland, as defined in the Lobbying (Scotland) Act, will have to be registered on Scotland’s new Lobbying Register. Passed in 2016, the Continue reading “Lobbying Register Guidance”
Title: Building your financial success and strengthening good practice Author: Scotland’s International Development Alliance (formerly NIDOS) Length: 14 pages Resource type: PDF report Summary: Fundraising is important for every organisation. This guide is an introduction to fundraising as well as a good practice guide. Hard work, enthusiasm and luck are always useful when it comes Continue reading “Introduction to Fundraising”
Title: A Quick Guide to Development and Humanitarian Innovation Author: Ian Gray Date: 2016 Length: 4 pages Resource type: PDF report Summary: There are numerous interpretations of what constitutes innovation. The World Bank has perhaps the easiest one to apply to the development sector. ‘Simply put, innovation is finding and applying new approaches to address Continue reading “Innovation Guide”
Title: Practical approaches for developing and sustaining good partnerships in international development Author: Graham Bennett, with editing by Koreen Reece Date: 2016 Length: 38 pages Resource type: PDF report Summary: Partnerships are essential to our work but what makes a good partnership? This guide looks at best practice in developing, sustaining and disbanding partnerships. This Continue reading “Partnership Guide”
Title: A Quick Guide to Theory of Change Author: Ian Gray Date: April 2017 Length: 4 pages Resource type: PDF report Summary: There is no agreed definition on what a Theory of Change is. Theories of Change are essentially about how we think that change happens. It is nearly always a mix of evidence and Continue reading “A Quick Guide to Theory of Change”
Title: Using MEL to strengthen your organisational effectiveness Author: Scotland’s International Devlopment Alliance (formerly NIDOS0 Length: 21 pages Resource type: PDF report Summary: A guide to improve knowledge, increase confidence and success in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning. This MEL guide has been developed to support your international development organisation to increase knowledge, confidence and success Continue reading “Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Guide”
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This report sets out recommendations for Scotland’s international development policy back in 2014. Ahead of 2014’s referendum on the constitutional future of Scotland, NIDOS members came together to produce a report aimed at ensuring Scotland’s role in the world is part of the debate. Scotland’s impact on the world is not limited to its international Continue reading “Scotland’s Place in Building a Just World”
This report compares different policy coherence for development (PCD) approaches across six different countries in Europe. The report covers PCD implementation in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden, and looks at how civil society representatives have engaged with the process.