Simon Koolwijk

"It has changed my perspective on how to communicate on a different way with partner organisations!" "Most of the theory was not new, but now I can link it to my own work situation and understand the value of organisational assessment tools..." Ten (Assistent) Desk Officers from the international development organisation ICCO received on the 18th & 19th November 2008 a two-day training on theories and tools for capacity development. Main purpose of the training was to widen and deepen the perspectives of the participants on how to communicate differently with their partners in Asia, Africa, Latin-America and Eastern Europe in regards to developing organisational capacities. Participants got acquainted with organisational assessment tools such as the IC-scan , the Integrated Organisational Model and the ECDPM scan . Planning exercises were done with the HRD/OD/ID model of PSO . Gertrud Wagemans, currently Desk Officer with ICCO, shared her experiences ...

Practical tools! It will help to focus my work as community worker! Very efficient to mobilize people and make people to move on issues they consider as important. Students from the University of Social Work of Hogeschool Utrecht - Amersfoort shared their experiences at the end of a two day training on methods for citizens' participation. On the 29th October and 5th November 2008 thirteen students got acquainted with basic facilitation methods on how to stimulate citizen's participation. Students got acquainted with the theory and principles of citizen's participation, and got acquainted with a number of basic facilitation methods for engaging and activating groups, called the Technology of Participation . The Technology of Participation methods have been developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs . From the early 50's up to late 60's a lot of experiments and pilots were done with a number of community development based methods. One of the most successfull p...