The Partnership and Capacity Strengthening Community of Practice

For working with us on developing tools and resources, and for meeting and growing the impact of PCS regionally

Global Fund Support Unit, Global Supply Chain Management Unit, Global Risk & Compliance Team and Finance Team

For their collaboration in launching the Global Fund Strong Local Principal Recipients Initiative, through which we are jointly developing a suite of tools, resources and approaches to support our local government and civil society actors to be strong, sustainable local primes of Global Fund grants. This initiative is in alignment with and supports the CRS Vision for the Future with Global Fund strategy

PIQA Social Services Team, IDEA Donor Engagement Lead for USG Global Health and the Risk Management & Compliance Team

For promoting the importance of partnership and capacity strengthening as a crosscutting aspect to the 18 project management standards supporting high-quality projects that provide improved outcomes of the people we serve

The Country programs of Guatemala, Uganda

For working with us to pilot the PRE-HOCAI and OVC Integrated Capacity Assessment Instrument tools, for prime readiness

The Country Programs of Ethiopia and Sierra Leone

For allowing us to support their work to develop Partnership & Capacity Strengthening Country Level Strategies/Workplans

IDEA Business Development Team

For ensuring the inclusion of the Capacity Strengthening in Proposals Costing Guidance in the new Cost Application Guidance (CAG), providing proposal teams with step-by-step guidance on how to ensure capacity strengthening activities and staffing are integrated into the overall proposal budget

Local Leadership Working Group & Thought Leadership Working Group

For  jointly advancing local leadership topics and priorities within and outside of the agency

Strategic Platform leads

For collaborating with us to integrate PCS in their vision, approaches and milestones for Vision 2030

Governance 

For continuing to work with us to share and communicate the Engaging Government Guide (EGG) more widely

Human Resources, Talent Development

For their encouraging and enthusiastic collaboration in planning the use of Micro-Credentialing with staff to gain mastery of partnership and capacity strengthening knowledge, skills and attitudes. 

Ethics Unit and Family Care Reform Platform

For engaging us to support the development of Learning Framework/Competency Models for Safeguarding, Fraud, and Family Care

GKIM

For the initiative to develop the ICT4D Partner Capacity Scorecard and their continued support in helping us visualize and share partnership and capacity strengthening data

Safeguarding and the Global Risk & Compliance Team

For their dedication and expertise in developing an effective safeguarding assessment tool for partners  

Finance unit

For working with us to include a new category for Capacity Strengthening of partners to budget and track related expenditures

Global Risk and Compliance, Audit, Finance and Regional Finance Officers

For their continued contributions to developing partners’ financial management capabilities

Various other units and Country Programs

For allowing us to serve by providing technical assistance and contributing to proposal development including KIDSS; the global grants proposals for Global Health NPI, MOMENTUM; and the DFSAs for Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar and Zimbabwe

Convening with colleagues from around the globe in July for Perfecting Partnership 2020, while continuing to support the regional directors and country representatives with their selection of participants.

Updating and creating tools to support partners in their efforts to become ready to receive direct donor funding.

Introducing micro-credentials to support staff in their development of partnership and capacity strengthening skills and practices.

Developing, piloting and rolling out new OverOps KPIs that more accurately and consistently reflect our collective work in partnership and capacity strengthening in country programs and regions.

Contributing to the design, review, and rollout of Gateway 2.0 to capture partner institutions, assessment and capacity strengthening data more accurately.

Engaging our SCORE ECD II colleagues in support of their mid-term project evaluation.

Continuing to work with all of you!