webinar
WHAT IMPACTS ARISE FROM CAPACITY STRENGTHENING OF LOCAL ACTORS IN FRAGILE CONTEXTS?

Following the localization agenda, strengthening the capacities of local associations has become one of the priorities of the majority of donors.  But often this reinforcement is made up of some technical trainings and the expected impacts are the total autonomy for local associations, in a quite short term.

In fragile contexts, strengthening the capacities of local associations encounters many challenges. How to achieve organizational strengthening that is not limited to technical training since the most important challenges lie in the attitudes of partners (local and international) such as fear of change, feelings of misunderstanding or depreciation and even tendencies to mimicry? How can we enhance the complementarity of each association by integrating specificities, diverse knowledge and experiences? What impacts can we hope for, realistically, responsibly and respectfully as local associations need time to take ownership of endogenous change? 

To discuss these questions, CERAR is organizing a webinar on the theme:

What kind of capacity-strengthening for local  actors will have the greatest impact?

FACILITATOR

Emanuelle LACROIX

Emanuelle Lacroix is Senior Partnership Development Manager, Cornerstone Foundation.
Based in Paris, Em is the senior partnerships development manager for the CSOD Foundation since 2016. An experienced talent management and learning practitioner with a strong commitment to collective action for social justice, she has been working in the NGO sector since 2005. She joined the Foundation from the CHS Alliance (People In Aid) and previously worked for the British Red Cross and Save the Children. Her main focus is to build connections and collaborations to raise awareness of the Foundation's programs, in particular the free online learning initiative DisasterReady.org, and to develop and manage partnerships to support the non-profit and humanitarian sector in strengthening their workforce and teams for greater support and impact.

PARTICIPANTS

Talatu ALIYU

Talatu Aliyu currently works at Christian Aid as the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Manager in Nigeria.. Talatu holds a master’s degree in development studies. A seasoned researcher who has sat in multiple Research ethic committees across National, Regional and Global levels with over 10 years’ experience. Her research interest cuts across a variety of projects aimed at enhancing accountable governance, Humanitarian, Community and Public Health, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Gender equality amongst others. She is a leading voice in the decolonization of research in Nigeria.

Obele OLUCHUKWU

Obele Oluchukwu is currently the Programme Officer – Advocacy – Government and Rights Theme of Christian Aid UK Nigeria Programme. Obele is a member of many policy advocacy think-tanks and committees that pushed for the In-Country Localization Agenda for LNNGOs in Nigeria and an expert in coordinating partnership and policy interventions for vulnerable population within fragile communities.

Johan ELDEBO

Johan Eldebo is currently Senior Adviser for Strategic Partnerships and Fragile Contexts, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has worked in the humanitarian sector for more than 10 years in a variety of roles, ranging from policy roles to security management, research and donor relations. As part of World Vision’s disaster management community, Johan travelled extensively to conflict and crisis areas to conduct context analysis, also developing new methodologies for participatory context analysis that are used widely in the sector, including the Good Enough Context Analysis for Rapid Response.

Victoria WEBBE

Victoria Webbe is Learning and Development Technical Lead at RedR (UK)

Brigitte PIQUARD

Brigitte Piquard is currently Director of CERAR. As a practitioner and an academic, Brigitte has conducted several action-research projects on capacity strengthening of local, community mobilisation and resilience building. She conducted the field work for the NGANGU project in the CAR. Brigitte is also Reader in Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding at Oxford Brookes University (UK).