Transcript New Partners Initiative (NPI) Round 3 Launch Meeting

New Partners Initiative (NPI)
End of Project Meeting
Looking Back, Moving Ahead;
The NPI Capacity Building Experience
Barbara Durr, NuPITA; Kumkum Amin, TA-NPI; Folami Harris, FHI 360
16 January 2012
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Presentation Overview
• The Context of Capacity Building
• Building Blocks for Sustainable Growth and Impact
• The NPI Model
• Partner Perspectives
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Moving Forward
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The Context of Capacity Building
• Organizations responding to the HIV and AIDS pandemic are often in lowresourced communities
• In many communities of need, access and quality of services remain substandard
• Many communities experience brain drain due to unstable socio-economic
conditions
• Yet, over the past decade six of the world’s ten fastest-growing countries
were African and the IMF expects Africa to grow by 6% this year and nearly
6% in 2012, about the same as Asia
• While not yet the standard, in some instances (Rwanda) national
governments are taking a lead in health service delivery; and
• Donors value the contribution of local organizations and have supported
capacity building on an impressive scale
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Capacity Building: Our Starting Point
“In Africa there is a concept known as Ubuntu, the profound
sense that we are human only through the humanity of
others; that if we are to accomplish anything in the world,
it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievement
of others.”
Nelson Mandela
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Building Blocks for Sustainable Growth & Impact
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NPI TA Model – Guiding Principles
• Holistic: Maintain organizational focus
• Respectful: Recognize organization’s independence and autonomy
• Responsive: Needs based; meet partners where they are
• Focus on Quality: Promote best practice; contextualized/customized TA
• Innovative: Doing things differently and doing different things
• Inclusive: Partner, donor, TA provider
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NPI TA Model - Art and Science Meet
• Adapting tools to people, not people to tools
• Developing resources and tools designed to
meet community needs
• Learning and discovering together - mutual
facilitators of innovation and change
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NPI TA Model – The How
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Capacity
Assessments
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Detailed Action
Plans
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Learning Modules
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NPI Connects
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Ticketing System
Group Trainings
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One-on-One TA
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NPI Advisors
Structured
Learning Visits
NPI TA Model – The What & Why
• Strengthened Leadership
- Vision and Mission
- Board-Management Relations
- Strategic Planning
- Resource Mobilization
Generates confidence; ensures coordination;
facilitates effective communication; motivates
employees
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NPI TA Model – The What & Why
• Built Systems
- Human Resources policies and procedures
- Financial Management procedures
- Monitoring & Evaluation systems
- Communications materials
Clarifies roles and responsibilities; ensures
accountability; builds robust organizations
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NPI TA Model –The What & Why
• Designed Evidence-based Programs
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in 5 areas
- Program response to SOPs
- Best practice opportunities
- Educational materials
Improves quality of services provided;
ensures consistency in quality and
standards
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NPI TA Model – The What & Why
• Broadened Influence
- Community-level Structures
- Program-level Referrals and Networks
- National-level Technical Working Groups
- International Conferences
- Other Implementing Partners and Donors
Impacting national policy discussion;
contributing to body of knowledge affecting the
epidemic; motivating commitment of partners
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So What?
…in order to build
capacity that contributes
to bringing about the
best health and
development outcomes
in communities by
communities.
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One Partner’s Experience
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Other Partner Perspectives
• The technical assessment was very useful and it helped us think about our
level of technical capacity and we realized our gaps and have developed
tangible action plans that are being followed up. It was a positive experience
• Our sub-grantees have also benefited from the TA thus extending the reach to
the communities we serve
• They have helped to invest in the community and this investment isn’t going to
perish tomorrow. We are grateful for that!
• Training in data quality resulted in the development of a team that
understands data requirements; the task no long depends on one person
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More Partner Perspectives
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• Some of the trainings could have been planned for earlier and been
sequenced more logically
• The role of the TA provider could have been clarified better from the
onset of the project
• Sometimes follow-up on the action plans after the OCA and trainings
was slow to come
• It would have been good if they had started with the end in mind and
helped us to develop a resource mobilization plan from the beginning
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Challenges Remain
• Motivating adequate national investments for building capacity for
more effective response to fight the epidemic
• Strengthening civil society to influence national actions that impact
health and development
• Adapting new capacities to fit the unique challenges within the
communities served
• Expanding resources for HIV and AIDS prevention, care and support
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Moving Forward: Opportunities
• Integrate local knowledge and resources into capacity
building to improve country ownership and
sustainability
• Align capabilities/capacities built with local
development imperatives
• Move beyond technical skills acquisition to include
other pre-requisites for healthier empowered
communities
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“Maybe knowledge [is] nothing more than the art of
looking at what we already know with different eyes
and asking different questions.”
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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