Capacity Building on RTI

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Capacity Building on RTI

• A Strong Vibrant Active Civil Society
• Information to Transformation

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Why build capacity?

• Emergence of civil society in 80s and 90s
• Only an active civil society can make the State
  more responsive and accountable
• The constraints of governance are compounded by a
  weak civil society
• Constant pressure on and incentive for the
  public agencies to perform better

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Designing a workshop

• 3 Important stages Before, during, and After
• To be effective workshop must be on-going
  process preparation, follow-up, impact
• Learning between the workshops is crucial for
  improvement
• Content to be tailored to the needs of
  participants

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Before the Workshop Planning Designing

• Selection of participants
• Key criteria commitment to take it forward
  desire to learn new skills interested in
  networking collaboration
• Sharing accountability by participants
• Testing participants interest by pre-reading
  material helps better allocation

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Content of the workshop

• Clear profile of the participants necessary to
  tailor the content to the needs of the
  participants
• Build on the skills and experience of the
  participants
• Empowerment vs judgement of participants

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Creating a workshop Team

• Good communication and team work crucial for
  success of a workshop
• Lead Trainer, facilitators, guest speakers,
  local, national, international resource persons
• The support teams administrative staff
  (e.g.hotel)
• Division of labour clear roles and
  responsibilities
• Set deadlines

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Proximate Preparations

• Selecting the venue
• Preparing materials
• Organising travel arrangements
• Final list of participants with full details
• Necessary stationery
• Information dissemination
• Transportation

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The Workshop

• Training methods
• Technical equipments
• Use of educational methods
• Importance of ice-breakers,energizers, brain
  teasers,warm up games,

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Learning Approaches

• Learning from experience vs injecting
  information
• Active participation vs passive lectures
• Interaction and participatory techniques role
  play, case studies, group discussions,
  brainstorming, mini-lectures, video presentations

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After the Workshop

• Evaluate and learn from the process
• Adapt and update the checklist
• Consider the feedback from the evaluation forms
• Complete the documentation process
• Prepare the financial report
• Follow-up with facilitators and participants

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Writing a Funding Proposal

• Necessary research, thinking and planning a must
  before writing
• Why and for whom is the proposal?
• Know Thyself (SWOT) and Know the donor
• Understanding the context, setting the
  objectives, designing a process (Planning the
  project)

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Plan the Project

• Project to reflect your organisations mission
  and strategy vs way to raise money
• The issues or the problems the project intends to
  address
• The objectives of the project
• The process intended to achieve the objectives

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The Proposal - Structure

• Title page
• Summary page
• Contents page
• Body of the proposal detailed content
• Conclusions and budget
• Appendices
• Bibliography / references

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Follow-up

• 2 kinds of follow-up
• a) follow-up the proposal
• b) follow-up the grant
• Right communication of right information at the
  right time

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Thank you

• Thank You
• For Your Patient Listening
• Your Active Participation
• And Your Valuable contributions
• Design a RTI workshop
• In your region
• That will bring about a change
• And lead to Transformation of society through the
  power of Information