Skills Link, NGO capacity building in the Pacific.
About the Pacific Skills Link (PSL) project
The Pacific Skills Link (PSL) project (2002-2006) sought to build the capacity of NGOs in Kiribati,
Tuvalu and Vanuatu. VSO co-ordinated the project, working with local implementing partners (Foundation
of the South Pacific, Kiribati & Kiribati Association of NGOs, Tuvalu Association of NGOs, and
Foundation of the South Pacific, Vanuatu respectively) in each country.
VSO volunteers worked alongside
nationally recruited staff to provide training, advice, and other forms of support in a range of
different areas from IT to financial management, gender policies to project proposal writing. The
European Community provided 75% of project funding, with VSO itself contributing much of the remaining
resources.
The project was very successful, with its external final evaluation report concluding:
'PSL has played
a very significant role in the development of civil society...Not only has PSL been able to stimulate
improvements in the organisational capacity of individual NGOs and CBOs, but it has also enabled the
sector to organise and position itself to influence and benefit from the larger policy and donor
environment'.
Beneficiary organisations were also enthusiastic about the project, with one grassroots group
commenting, 'our Association recommends PSL very highly as it directly impacts on rural disadvantage
by empowering people's capabilities'.
During the project, the project teams in each country developed their own tailored training
resources, in the form of manuals, workshop guides, and toolkits. Some of these were subsequently
produced and distributed as resources for others to use, and they are included on this website as
downloadable PDF files.
You can also download the project's final evaluation report, together with two
other reports. One looks at the learning captured by the project (and might be suitable for project
managers), while the other looks at the nature of civil society in the three countries, and perceptions
of the roles of NGOs in their development.
PSL finished on 31 January 2006, but VSO Vanuatu remains committed to supporting civil society
organisations to be more effective actors in development processes. For more information about PSL,
or the ongoing work of VSO Vanuatu, please contact
vso@vanuatu.com.vu.
Downloadable reports and resources
All documents are in PDF format.
Final evaluation:
Toolkits:
Workshops:
Other documents:
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