Capacity building for CBOs and other stakeholders

The ECNGOC is of the view that strengthening corporate governance is the foundational pillar to achieve and enhance NGO sustainability. Hence, it offers advice and implements trainings on NPO management and organisational development, including project management, financial management and board governance. In the past years the National Development Agency (NDA) and Office of the Premier (OTP) contracted the ECNGOC to implement training and mentoring on these topics for their beneficiary NPOs working in the field of poverty eradication and organisations active in the elderly and disability sector.

Accredited and non-accredited training on Asset-Based-Community- Development (ABCD), as well as leadership training courses are offered for a reasonable price to member organisations and stakeholders from civil society, government and the private sector. The ECNGOC has identified the expansion of its training offers as important strategy for resource mobilization and popularizing people-centred, sustainable development approaches. In its recent resource mobilization activities strong efforts are made to make the high-quality training offers accessible to an increased number of member organisations.

From 2015 to 2018 the Eastern Cape NGO Coalition partnered with the LegalWise CSI department to support and mentor NGOs that operate income generating activities to sustain the community projects of the organizations. Under the “Micro Enterprise Shared Value Programme” 20 member organizations profited from the support and received mentoring visits and financial support of 11 000 Rand per organization.

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