The goal of the NGO Project Management Initiative is to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of international NGOs by sharing/developing/improving templates, tools and capacity building resources for Project Management.

By working together and collaborating with private sector companies, professional organizations and universities, we can improve NGOs' project management capacity, while:

• Reducing duplication of effort;

• Increasing return on investment;

• Increasing return on investment; and

• Enhancing the appropriateness, quality and design of project management capacity building resources.

Activities:

Phase III of the PM4NGOs initiative is focusing on revising the curriculum piloted in Phase II, creating and facilitating a Project Management community of practice, and setting the funding foundations for a longer-term PM4NGOs .  The revised curriculum will be presented to course participants in both face-to-face and on-line contexts in the spring and summer of 2008.  (Exact dates have not yet been determined).

For more information about the courses and the PM4NGOs Working Group, click here: PM4NGOs Working Group. This page requires authorization in addition to the main LINGOs sharepoint site.  To obtain authorization, please contact either Chris Cattaway, Principal Advisor to the NGO PMI at chris@pm4ngos.org or Leslie Sherriff at Leslie@lingos.org.