Training & Capacity-Building Resources

Learn. Unlearn. Lead. Explore our curated collection of training and capacity building resources. Whether you’re looking to improve your communications and public engagement practices, develop ethical and equity-centred fundraising strategies, deepen your understanding of anti-racism and decolonization, or build your project management skills through Results-Based Management (RBM), you’ll find practical guides, webinars, toolkits, and self-paced courses here.

AFRICA NO FILTER

The Ethical Storytelling Handbook helps communicators undo the stereotypes that persist in many of the storytelling outputs of local and international NGOs, donors and foundations working on the continent of Africa.

AFRICA NO FILTER

The Africa Bias Buster is a learning tool developed to move beyond stereotypes by screening your text for writing biases and providing feedback and recommendations that help you tell stories with balance, context and nuance.

GLOBAL HIVE

Global Hive is your go-to place to hone your public engagement skills. A hub of information, good practices, tools, case studies and resources, the Global Hive is here to help you inspire active global citizenship.

OCIC & ADRA Canada

Explore Ethical Principles of Public Engagement, designed as tools to guide organizations and practitioners. They require stepping back and reflecting on behaviours and practices.

Oxfam International

The Inclusive Language Guide is a resource to support people in our sector who have to communicate in English to think about how the way they write can subvert or inadvertently reinforce intersecting forms of inequality that we work to end.

Change the Game Academy

This free online Local Fundraising course consists of 12 modules, including fundraising techniques, effective fundraising communications, and advanced techniques for local fundraising.

OCIC & Rayjon Share Care

We invited Esther Lee of Further Together to share an overview of Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF), including traditional fundraising models and the non-profit industrial complex, as well as an introduction to the context, history and principles of CCF.

OCIC

Money Talks presents innovative solutions for common funding challenges and helps spark new creative ventures for organizations seeking to diversify their funding options and deepen the scope of their work.

Spur Change

The goal of the Building Equity training program is to build capacity and confidence to develop a diversified, ethical, and equity-centred fundraising and resource mobilization strategy.

ARC Hub

The Anti-Racist Cooperation (ARC) Hub is a dedicated coordination secretariat and a resource center for the sector. Their goal is to help Canadian international development and humanitarian organizations to improve their ability integrate anti-racism and intersectional feminism into their work.

DIGNA

Digna aims to contribute to organizational culture change within the Canadian international cooperation community by providing training, online resources and consultation services for the adoption of gender-responsive best practices with the ultimate goal of preventing sexual exploitation and abuse.

Spur Change

Watch the webinar on Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse / Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence to learn about the requirements of Global Affairs Canada, present a code of conduct outline, and how to support SMOs in their institutional efforts to prevent and respond to sexual violence.

The New Humanitarian

Explore the Decolonising Aid Reading & Resource List for a list of articles, podcasts, videos, and other resources that can help you make sense of the term and how it is being applied, with some thought-provoking perspectives that may challenge some assumptions.

VIDEA

The Decolonization Toolkit was designed to spark conversation and growth personally, professionally, organizationally, or community wide. In partnership with the toolkit activities there is a facilitator guide and a suggested reading list to deepen Indigenous content and awareness.

Spur Change

Let's Chat RBM and Gender Equity was created as an informal conversation series centered on peer-to-peer learning, providing plenty of opportunities for folks to get engaged through exploring processes, tools, and best practices for incorporating gender and intersectionality into a project’s RBM framework.

Spur Change

Making Data Collection Meaningful is an intensive workshop organized as a practical hands-on experience for participants to dive into planning for data collection, gender-sensitive, feminist and community-led approaches to data collection, and technology for data collection.

Spur Change

A baseline survey is a study that is done at the beginning of a project to collect information on the status of a subject before any type of intervention can affect it. These micro-learning sessions have been designed to provide small, self-paced learning with tip sheets, videos or tools.

Spur Change

This two-day intensive workshop was a practical hands-on experience for participants to dive deeper into the process of developing a Project Implementation Plan (PIP). Review presentation slides from the PIP Training—highlighting some key questions to ask yourself as you are developing your organization’s own PIP.

Spur Change

This self-paced course covers basic Results-Based Management (RBM) concepts, how it can be applied, and provides participants with hands-on practice using some key RBM tools. This course is out-of-this world as it uses gamification, storytelling and a science-fiction theme to spark your interest and to facilitate learning.

Spur Change

This course builds off RBM 101 and encourages learning through application. Work through exercises with a sample case study or your own project to develop a theory of change, logic model, Project Management Framework (PMF) and more.