Learning News from the ICCO Alliance

Action Researchers Programmatic Approach and Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Maarten) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:00:00 +0000

The coming months a group of five young professionals is going to do action research on the programmatic approach of the ICCO Alliance in 5 different regions. This research process intends to get an...

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Setting up online learning communities is just like learning to skate inline

noreply@blogger.com (Maarten) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:49:00 +0000

This year 2011 the digital energy within the ICCO Alliance has been mostly dedicated to the setup and give life to the Learning Communities (LC’s). Several LC now have been formed around the themes...

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First day at ICCO Introduction Training

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:57:00 +0000

What is ICCO? Who do we really work for? These are the type of questions that we had in mind when we were coming to the Introduction Training. And then, we are finally here, at the Global Office and...

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Making the Connections Day 6: Dutch Treat

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Sunday was a different Dutch treat from the Ecumenical Community of “Het Brandpunt.” At 9am, a group of volunteers drove us (in different cars to fit the 21 individuals from various regional offices)...

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Day 5 Introduction Training - Friday, October 6th, 2011

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:33:00 +0000

Interesting day, sessions were designed by using the World Cafè methodology. 20 minutes in different rooms with different specialists in issues such as micro finance, liaison officers, KIA...

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Making the connections

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:14:00 +0000

The third day of the introduction training differed completely from what we had done in the first two days. If on Monday and Tuesday we talked about program directions and framework, within which we...

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ICCO Introduction Training: Making the Connections (Day 3)

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:54:00 +0000

ROSEA also tagged as the “Bali Gang” volunteered to help in the morning recap, contribute to the blog and the animation/icebreakers for the Wednesday session. Other colleagues from other ROs also...

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Monday Introduction Course Session: Making the Connections

noreply@blogger.com (Maarten) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:56:00 +0000

As someone relatively new in ICCO (3 months and counting), I would describe the first day of our Introduction Course with two words, change and challenges. ICCO and its alliance have its own theory...

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Insights in Learning Communities - Share Fair

noreply@blogger.com (Maarten) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:19:00 +0000

This week the Share Fair is taking place in Rome. Many interesting presentations and discussions are taking place about a great number of issues of interest for ICCO’s work: Public-Private...

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Networks here & there…. networks everywhere!

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:10:00 +0000

A few more years and NGO’s working on individual development projects might have become obsolete. Just take a quick look in any NGO’s strategic plan and you will notice that ‘Networks’ and...

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Networked Learning for Private Sector Cooperation

noreply@blogger.com (Angelica Senders:) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:29:00 +0000

Cooperation with the private sector is an explicit strategy of the ICCO Alliance. In the past years considerable experience is gained. For the ICCO Alliance intensifying cooperation with the...

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Filling our tools box; 3 tools to support gender sensitive value chain development

noreply@blogger.com (Angelica Senders:) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:50:00 +0000

On May 25, 2011, APF Kenya organized a half day workshop on looking at agricultural value chains from a gender perspective. The 30 participants represented NGOs, the business sector and higher...

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5 challenges for cooperation between CSOs and Businesses

noreply@blogger.com (Angelica Senders:) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:46:00 +0000

On April 5 and 6, 80 and 35 people respectively, representing Dutch NGOs, learning facilitators and CSOs from the South, discussed success factors and challenges in partnerships between Southern...

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Capacity Development of IA partners on Financial Management

noreply@blogger.com (Angelica Senders:) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:06:00 +0000

On Friday March 25 Anna Lentink presented her master product for the post doc education (AMID) at the CIDIN in Nijmegen. Under supervision of Willemijn Lammers and supported by Angelica Senders (of...

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Everything you always wanted to know about F&S advisory service….

noreply@blogger.com (Angelica Senders:) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:48:00 +0000

Are you one of those people wondering what Fair and Sustainable Advisory (FSAS) is doing? Our website is now launched! It provides you with the products FSAS is delivering and the profiles of the...

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Business and Human Rights through the perspective of the Ruggie framework

noreply@blogger.com (Pier Andrea Pirani) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:02:00 +0000

The 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' report prepared by Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Prof. John Ruggie, aims to lay the foundations of a system for better managing business and...

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Programme régional de promotion de la SDRS chez les jeunes de 10-24 ans dans cinq pays de l'Afrique Francophone

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:38:00 +0000

2eme CONSULTATION DES PARTENAIRES SRDS 2011-2015Cotonou, 6 – 10 Décembre 2010INTRODUCTION Le plan stratégique 2011-2015 de ICCO accorde une place importante à la promotion de la santé des adolescents...

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Stepping-out Prostitution: Supporting young women to reclaim their rights and change their lives

noreply@blogger.com (compart admin team) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:53:00 +0000

Mudando de Vida/Cambio de Vida: Aprender de Programas que Apoyan a la Salida del Trabajo Sexual Comercial de Mujeres y Menores en América Latina. Programa de las Religiosas Adoratrices -Bolivia,...

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ComPart Evaluation - Three key roles to support collaboration and learning

noreply@blogger.com (Pier Andrea Pirani) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:13:00 +0000

We are still thinking through the implications of the recent ComPart evaluation, first announced on this blog, We know it wasn't the perfect time, given the changes the ICCO Alliance has been going...

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Evaluation of ComPart – The real question

noreply@blogger.com (pete cranston) — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:27:00 +0000

As if there wasn’t enough going on in ICCO in the last quarter of 2010, the ComPart evaluation came to a head in December. Marc Coenders and Nancy White, the lead evaluators, held a validation...

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Evaluation of ComPart kicks off

noreply@blogger.com (Pier Andrea Pirani) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:26:00 +0000

Even if the name ComPart - Communication with and amongst Partners - came in only at a later stage, at ICCO we have been busy with this project since 2007. The main idea behind this project was that...

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ComPart FAQs and guides

noreply@blogger.com (Pier Andrea Pirani) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:01:00 +0000

In ComPart, we pay a lot of attention to the need of the users and make a constant effort to provide them with the adequate support material. Even though we believe that the different ComPart tools...

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Rencontre SRDS Bamako Juillet 2010

noreply@blogger.com (compartuser) — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:05:00 +0000

Les 19, 20 et 21 juillet 2010, s'est tenu dans une salle de conference de l'hotel Massaley à Bamako, la rencontre des points focaux du programme SRDS/ICCO INTRODUCTIONEn Novembre 2009, ICCO s’est...

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PADEV - Participatory Assessment for Development

noreply@blogger.com (Pier Andrea Pirani) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:03:00 +0000

On 15 September 2010 ICCO hosted a public seminar titled 'Insight in Complexity - Possibilities for scaling –up a bottom-up evaluation approach'. The main purpose of the event was to present, review...

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Introducing new 'ComPart thematic surgeries'

noreply@blogger.com (Pier Andrea Pirani) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:42:00 +0000

In the ComPart project, we are constantly looking at new ways to improve the support and backstopping we offer to our users in the ICCO Global Office as well as in the Regional Offices and in...

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