Organisational development is about improving organisational
dynamics and their impacts on organisational performance.
NAVCA supports its members to improve their own organisational
capacity and performance to deliver high quality services to
support local voluntary and community action, and to helping them
demonstrate their effectiveness to their stakeholders, funders and
statutory bodies.
Our organisational development support services aims to provide the
tools, information, support and expertise that members need to
improve and develop their organisations.
In addition to this, we have a number of
specialist teams on hand to help with
specific work areas.
Something missing? Let us know by contacting
Vivienne Brown,
NAVCA's Members' Support and Development Manager.
Research
Building effective local VCS infrastructure (BELVI) report, June
2007, this report discusses the findings from a nine-month
research project examining the development, effectiveness and
sustainability of local infrastructure organisations. The study
sought to identify the characteristics of successful local
infrastructure organisations and the conditions required to
replicate these characteristics.
Planning
NAVCA and some of our members have shared their own
strategic, business and work
plans.
Governance
NAVCA's pages on chair and
trustee support provide information about support with LIO
governance.
Leadership and management
For advice on insurance issues, contact
Tennyson
Insurance.
NAVCA's pages on chief
officer and senior management support provide further
information about support with LIO leadership and management.
Managing people
NAVCA members wanting advice on Human Resources issues should
consider subscribing their organisation to the Peninsula advice
service. For more information contact
Julie Patterson.
Learning and development
SKiLD (Skills
and Knowledge for Local Development) is NAVCA's flagship
project to support the learning and development of Development
Workers and people who provide external support to other
organisations.
The Empowering the Voluntary Sector (EVS) project provides
advice in managing disputes and training in using the principles of
public law and Compact to both prevent and manage disputes with
public bodies.
NAVCA also offers learning and development opportunities for
chief officers and
senior managers, and for
chairs and trustees of member
organisations.
Managing money
This guidance, "Reserves policies made simple" by Sayer
Vincent, was used by NAVCA when producing its own reserves
policy.
NAVCA has produced guidance on
challenging a funding cut.
Working with others
Download our collaboration support postcard (pdf, 960KB).
Many LIOs are looking into how they can work better with one
another in order to achieve their mission more effectively and
efficiently. Collaboration may involve structural change (e.g. a
merger), operational change, or simply consolidating your current
ways of working in reference to others.
NAVCA helps members to identify the best approach for them and
provides the information and hands-on support they might need -
from sharing good practice to facilitation of joint meetings.
To discuss how we might be able to support your organisation with
collaborative work or a merger,
contact Vivienne
Brown.
For those LIOs considering a merger, we have compiled a list of
relevant sources of information.
Click here for the merger
resources.
On request, we will visit member organisations who are working on
collaborating with each other in new ways or merging together.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Measuring Effectiveness is a self-evaluation toolkit created by
NACVS and CES to help LIOs improve their monitoring and evaluation
activities and to share the information in a comparable and
consistent way.
NAVCA's performance standards and the
NAVCA Quality
Award assessment process help member LIOs review and improve
the effectiveness of their core activity.
The Performance Hub produced a range of reports and resources to
support monitoring and evaluation and performance improvement,
which are still available through
NCVO's Strategy and
Impact website, or the
Strategy and Impact pages on NCVO's website.
The Charities
Evaluation Service (CES) offer a range of programme focused on
performance improvement, including information, support and
training on monitoring and evaluation and outcomes.
Facilitation service
Good facilitation can support people at key points of an
organsiation's development to express their opinions, hopes and
fears, and to reach collective and sustainable agreements. NAVCA
staff can sometimes offer a facilitation service to LIOs, which
will normally be charged at our standard daily rate.
Support in a crisis
NAVCA is committed to supporting our members through periods of
particular difficulty or crisis when requested by the chief
officers or a trustee of a member organisation.
Talk to NAVCA
Contact Vivienne
Brown, NAVCA's Members' Support and Development Manager, to
discuss any of the organisational development support mentioned
above, unless otherwise stated.