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Best Practices and Approach

Capacity Building

At the heart of social investing is an engaged approach with the funded organisation. Capacity building of social purpose organisations is one of the main activities social investors engage in. Ideally what is provided by the social investor or resource provider matches what is needed on the side of the social purpose organisation. The social purpose organisations’ needs tend to come from internal parameters in the social purpose organisation, e.g. the development stage of the organisation, the management team, its social mission, business model and growth plans.

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It is critical for capacity building to gauge the needs and assets of the SPOs. In addition to this, social investors have different in-house capabilities to support capacity building and hence may need to structure the delivery of capacity building with third-party providers either paid, low- or pro-bono. The outcome of this assessment is then needs-based capacity building through a variety of tools such as strategic support, professional services and physical infrastructure. Most social investors are also keen to understand in how far their activities make a difference or in other words, create an impact. There are several approaches to measure the impact of capacity building.

In 2016 AVPN published the Guide to effective Capacity Building and Effective Social Incubation, as below. The report contains a summary of the best practices in understanding needs, structuring delivery of capacity building and finally assessing the impact of it, the AVPN Capacity Building Canvas and abbreviated versions of the 10 case studies below.

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We also conducted Capacity Building workshops in India in Delhi, Bangalore and MumbaiTaipei and Singapore. For further information, please contact us via [email protected].

A Guide to Effective Capacity Building

Effective Social Incubation

Case Studies

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