Македонски центар за меѓународна соработка - МЦМС

The MCIC staff and the representatives of some of the partner's organizations improved their knowledge and skills thanks to the trainings delivered by the Netherlands’ training and consultancy organization Management for Development Foundation (MDF), financed mainly by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Orange Knowledge Program managed by NUFFIC. 

The training last several months and the topic of interest were: Analysing, forming and managing multi-stakeholder processes and partnerships; Results-based management – planning for tangible and measurable changes; Scrutinising advocacy and policy influencing measures; Results-based management - monitoring, evaluation and learning; Training of Trainers and Facilitation Skills.

For Aleksandra Savevska, the outcome mapping technic was one of the quite relevant which she learned during the Monitoring, evaluation and learning training. “Creation of elaborate “ladders of changes”, where we not only will be focusing on indicators but will set step-by-step gradual changes (progress markers) will improve our insights in how and when change occurs”, said Aleksandra. 

“Not only that we learned many new methods and technics which are part of the Advocacy and policy influencing cycle, but we already decided to implement some of them within Balkans Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN)”, said Valentina Velichkovska. She emphasized the CLASP principles (credibility, legitimacy, accountability, service-orientedness and power-based), were highly accepted by the group as a priority for BCSDN that is in process of developing its new strategy. 

The Results-based management training helps Jelmaz Dervishi to understand the differences between the levels of achievements and results (organizational, outcome and output level). “The other important finding from the training was the reflection on our programs within our organization and defining the difference once again between outcome and outputs and how to see the bigger picture from RBM perspective.”

The trainings are part of the regular MCIC’s investment in the knowledge and the skills of the staff. Its will help to implement the adequate set of tools in the complex context that they work during their everyday work. In the next few days, we convey the impression of some of the participants from the trainings.

The Orange Knowledge Programme is a €195-m Dutch global development programme, available in 53 developing countries and managed by NUFIC, a Dutch non-profit organization for internationalisation in education. Launched mid-2017, it aims to have provided tens of thousands with the possibility to change their future through education and training by mid-2022.