WorkwithUSAID.gov: is a free resource hub created to help organizations learn what USAID does and how they can partner with USAID to improve lives and livelihoods around the world. It includes resources to strengthen local organizations’ knowledge, networks and opportunities to partner with USAID.
LGHS Approach to Organizational Capacity Strengthening: LGHS has an integrated capacity strengthening approach that simultaneously addresses both organizational and global health security technical capacities. This document explains our approach and outlines the process that LGHS partners will engage in to strengthen their capacity.
USAID Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS) Policy: Through this policy, USAID seeks to set a new vision for effective local capacity strengthening that builds upon the consensus across the development landscape, feedback from local actors and partners and years of implementation experience and evidence. Policy guides USAID decisions about why and how to invest in the capacity of local partners to better achieve inclusive and locally led development. USAID recognizes the central importance of partnerships that result in strengthened local communities—a longstanding practice across every sector, country and context in which the Agency works. Through this LCS Policy, USAID is committing to a unified, cohesive and systemic approach in which it collaborates with local partners to:
Define their own vision for success;
Strengthen their ability to be effective and relevant actors within their local communities and contexts;
Elevate local ownership in sustaining development results.
USAID Pre-Engagement Assessment: This self-assessment allows local organizations to learn if they are ready to work with USAID. The confidential questionnaire takes about 10 minutes and enables organizations to identify and address performance gaps.
Organizational Capacity Assessment: USAID Learning Lab provides a comprehensive batch of resources on the Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) with instructions, tools and facilitation guide.
Prospective Offeror’s and Applicant’s Guide to the Non-US Pre-Award Survey (NUPAS): determines local organizations’ eligibility to partner with USAID. It assesses financial and managerial capacity, the most appropriate method of financing for a potential USAID award and the degree of support and oversight necessary for proper accountability. This presentation describes the NUPAS process and the elements that will be assessed during the NUPAS. For more information the NUPAS, refer to USAID’s NUPAS Guidelines.
NGOConnect: is a platform that connects and strengthens civil society organizations (CSOs), networks and support organizations worldwide. LGHS partners can access resources, tools and a library that contains a collection of useful organizational capacity strengthening materials.
Local Engagement Assessment Framework (LEAF): was designed by Oxfam America, Save the Children, and the Overseas Development Institute as a tool for planning and assessing the level of local stakeholder engagement in development projects. This Practitioners’ Guide helps development professionals design, monitor and evaluate projects to integrate strong local ownership principles.
USAID Organization Performance Index (OPI) Guidebook: OPI is an indicator that measures the overall performance of organizations in four main domains: effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and sustainability. This can guidebook help organizations understand how to use the OPI as a USAID-endorsed indicator for monitoring organizational capacity strengthening. The OPI will help LGHS partners to answer the questions such as, “So what if this organization has an improved governance system?”, or “So what if they are better at managing finances?”