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Latest Insights from 2023 Funding Plus Survey from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Exploring Capacity Building This recent survey sheds light on the evolving landscape of capacity-building needs. This valuable data reflects the pressing demands of organisations like yours and offers key takeaways for decision-making. 🔸 Staying Relevant: The survey underscores the continuity of needs, with income generation and fundraising ranking highest at 37%. The demand for evaluation and impact measurement (34%) closely follows, reaffirming the importance of demonstrating results. Business development & strategy also stands out as a priority at 30%, reflecting the need to adapt and innovate. 🔸 Changing Dynamics: Interestingly, governance needs have significantly decreased to 5% from 2018. This shift highlights a maturing sector. Additionally, the interest in diversity equity and inclusion/anti-racism work (16%) showcases a growing awareness of societal responsibilities. 🔸 Investing Smartly: When given the chance to invest an extra £8,000, 37% of respondents preferred bolstering internal systems, often through staff training and development. This insight underscores the significance of building a skilled and adaptable workforce. 🔸 Evolving Strategies: The Funding Plus initiative is moving with the times. Informed by the survey, the focus for the upcoming year will be on peer learning and addressing specific needs. This dynamic approach aims to ensure a tailored, impactful experience for beneficiary organisations. 📖 Read the Full Report: Funding Plus 2023 survey findings | Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (esmeefairbairn.org.uk) #CapacityBuildingInsights #FundingPlusImpact

💡 Public sector capacity matters, but what is it? 💬 As governments tackle complex challenges and pursue innovative solutions, understanding public sector capabilities is crucial. Our network partner, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, is leading the way with their Public Sector Capabilities Index! Their blog dives deep into what makes a public sector organization truly capable. It's not just about individual skills, but a three-layered approach: 🔹 State Capacities 🔹 Organizational Routines 🔹 Dynamic Capabilities Public sector capacity matters – and understanding these layers is key to building stronger, more responsive services. Head over to the UCL IIPP blog to learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNmkXxkA 🖌 By Rainer Kattel, Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, Iacopo Gronchi, Ruth Puttick #CBF24 #CreativeBureaucracyFestival #publicsectorinnovation #publicsector #bureaucracy #transformation #community #news

The five things we need to shout about from the Support Cambridgeshire state of the sector research.

Join our session with Rebecca Young, NCVO’s Head of Policy, Research, and Campaigns, on Thursday, 7th March at The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce). Delve into "The Road Ahead 2024" report, exploring the voluntary sector’s future amidst political, economic, and social shifts, emphasising adaptability and collaboration. In a year of potential general election uncertainty, strategic financial management against a backdrop of high inflation and interest rates is crucial. The report highlights the importance of community empowerment, environmental advocacy, technological advancements, and climate action for meaningful societal impact. Reserve your spot for this insightful discussion: https://lnkd.in/eCQRMEi9 #VoluntarySector #TheRoadAhead2024 #NCVO #CommunityEmpowerment #EnvironmentalAdvocacy #Adaptability #Collaboration #EconomicChallenges #TechnologicalAdvancements #ClimateAction #StrategicPlanning

"To design and deliver effective public service in the 21st century, governments must go beyond the status quo and embrace innovation as an imperative" The OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation team are calling for nominations for #innovation in public sector Public Sector Innovators from across the globe - take a look

We are excited to announce that Global Community Resourcing Director of Projects and Research Anne Livingstone has signed an international publishing deal for a forthcoming book on the crucial role standards can play in ageing societies. Collaborating with esteemed co-editors Ms Jeanne Bank from Canada and Dr Sabrina Pit, from Australia over the past year, they have turned this idea into a project slated for publication in 2025. The book brings together global experts to explore a diverse range of topics, including digitalisation, employment, economic participation, multigenerational committees, dementia-inclusive communities, wellbeing, financial security, and safety. Additionally, some chapters will address the more challenging and controversial aspects of achieving and implementing standardisation. We look forward to sharing the progress with you in the coming months. #GCR #AgeingSocieties #GlobalStandards #Digitalisation #EconomicParticipation

As Metropolitan Group (MG/ISMG) begins our 36th year, we are more committed than ever to supporting and working in partnership with change agents to respond to truly global challenges, and to directly impact and drive needed changes on issues that require collective action and significant shifts in norms and public will. Across sectors and across geographies the need to create proactive narratives, social expectations, and systemic changes that center fairness, freedom, equity, justice, and peace is profound. We all need solutions we can work toward while we also work to effectively counter rising authoritarianism, hyperpolarization, the use of fear and othering, and attacks on information integrity. We see this combined work of building up just solutions while robustly pushing back on injustice in the work of our clients and the communities they serve every day. This 35th annual letter to stakeholders shares updates on our team and stories of our clients’ work and impact. As we begin our 36th year of social impact work, we are focused and committed to the shared mission of advancing public health, environmental sustainability, and social justice. We are excited to collaborate with you on this journey. https://lnkd.in/g5tD6jHW

New programme alert! We're thrilled to launch our brand-new "Inclusive and Participatory Methods for Policy Making" programme this July. Inclusivity can sometimes take a back seat in policy discussions, with more immediate concerns such as economic stability, national security, and geopolitical interests taking centre stage. But a lack of emphasis on inclusivity is short-sighted: it can lead to policies that are ineffective, discriminatory, or even harmful to marginalised populations, exacerbating social exclusion and widening existing divides. We're hoping to change that by helping policymakers explore strategies and frameworks to incorporate inclusivity into policy formulation. We'll go through participatory methods and techniques that enhance stakeholder engagement and encourage community participation, and help you navigate real-world case studies of inclusive policymaking in action. Under the guidance of expert facilitators, participants will also take on a personalised project that will enable them to address specific challenges related to inclusivity in policymaking using theoretical and practical learnings from the programme. We hope you'll walk this new path with us. Check out the programme here: https://lnkd.in/gje5WZwt

Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures recently released a discussion paper on the cohesiveness of Aotearoa New Zealand society. It paints a picture of increased polarisation stemming from a range of stresses. The paper Addressing the challenges to social cohesion says we need to pay more attention to strengthening both institutional and social trust and addressing those factors that might weaken them. Although New Zealand has traditionally been perceived as a highly cohesive, high-trust society with a healthy democracy, many factors are undermining trust and contributing to rising anxiety and concern among some sections of our society. Awareness of the causes and effects is vital, as is taking steps to preserve or enhance our cohesiveness and resilience. Institutional and social trust are both needed for a democratic society to be resilient and cohesive. A key question will be whether fractious politics and the declining trust in core institutions, including the government and media, continue to test the level of trust and engagement by individuals and communities in the coming general election. In this fireside chat, Sir Peter Gluckman and Paul Spoonley will discuss the factors that are potentially threatening to Aotearoa New Zealand society’s resilience, as well as a range of actions that focus on enhancing social trust and social cohesion. The latter raises questions about how our democracy should evolve, seeking a political accord to improve parliamentary processes and political discourse, and whether new institutions and innovative approaches are needed. This kōrero will be moderated by Hema Sridhar, Strategic Adviser (Technological Futures) at Koi Tū and co-author on the discussion paper. To register for the webinar: Thursday 31 August, 6.30pm. https://lnkd.in/gfPzYdjJ

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Stakeholder Participation in Sustainable Communities   The BuildAction Stakeholder Participation Toolkit is inspired by the initiatives of CCHD, GIZ, IOPD, OECD, and UCLG as well as the City WORKS Toolkit and the Community Tool Box.  It complies with the OECD “Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes”, which is aimed at public authorities and institutions interested in implementing or complementing a citizen participation program.   BuildAction is a civic action initiative to support citizens and other interested stakeholders in the development of sustainable communities across the world.  The Baden bei Wien community (https://lnkd.in/d_sbFds2) demonstrates ways stakeholders can effectively use the toolkit to participate in the process. The IOPD Best Practice in Citizen Participation Award recognizes promising programs for citizen participation.  The BuildAction proposal, “Baden bei Wien: Stakeholder Participation in Community Sustainable Development” (https://lnkd.in/d8Z8Dt9W), needs your vote of support.   To support the BuildAction initiative: 1. Sign up (https://lnkd.in/dqUq3Dpe). 2. Vote (https://lnkd.in/d8Z8Dt9W). 3. Share.   Note: You must vote for (“support”) 4 additional proposals (https://lnkd.in/dD2cxqkX).   Public voting for proposals is open until 12 September 2023 at 12:00 GMT.   If not now, when? If not you, who?   It's up to us! ------------------------------- #Community #Civic #Participation #Collaboration #Development Like it (👍)!  Share it. Click on image.