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Quick Tips for Conducting Employee Performance Appraisals

Employee performance, or the lack of it, has a great impact on an organization's success. Although it is as important as managing financial resources and program outcomes, it often gets less attention. For guidance on how employee performance appraisals can help enhance communication between staff and managers, overcome challenges and align staff responsibilities with broader goals, consult the latest issue NGOConnect eNews.

Each issue of NGOConnect eNews, a free online newsletter issued by the Capable Partners Program, concentrates on a single topic in one of seven capacity-building domains: compliance, external relations, financial management, human resources, monitoring and evaluation, program management and governance. To subscribe for free, click here.

 

The Essential NGO Guide to Managing Your USAID Award is designed to help NGOs effectively manage U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds.

The Guide explains step by step how to handle the life cycle of a USAID grant from award, start-up and implementation through monitoring, evaluation, reporting and close-out. Each chapter provides links to practical tools, specific documents and Websites that offer NGOs additional strategies and practices to improve their capacity to respond to the needs of their beneficiaries. 

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Grantee at a Glance

Synergie d’Action pour la Formation et le Développement 

In an area of Senegal that has experienced decades of armed conflict and crisis, DGP Grantee Synergie d’Action pour la Formation et le Développement (SYAFD) is making a big impact by sharing resources and knowledge to help local NGOs achieve their goals.

Since 1999, SYAFD, a capacity-building service provider, has worked in and around the country’s second largest city, Ziguinchor, to create a more united, vibrant and effective civil society. Through workshops, training, radio programming and one-to-one assistance, SYAFD is bolstering the institutional capacity of local NGOs and enabling them to fulfill their missions more effectively.

With funding from the DGP, SYAFD is leveraging the expertise of CAP’s Regional Technical Advisors to expand the depth and breadth of the interventions and services SYAFD can in turn offer to local NGOs. In December 2010, SYAFD launched an NGO resource center. For the first time, local NGO professionals have a place to gather regularly to share lessons learned, to network, research and apply for funding, and take advantage SYAFD’s technical assistance services.

Featured NGO Resources Monitoring & Evaluation Basics Do you want to step up the monitoring and evaluation of your projects? USAID's TIPS series will help you get on the right track. This collection of short publications explains how to conduct rapid appraisal assessments, informant interviews and other methods to monitor your programs and provide evidence-based reports to USAID. In addition, you will find valuable tips and tools to more effectively measure program impacts in Chapters 3 and 4 of The Essential Guide to Managing Your USAID Award, a detailed resource to assist grantees in successfully implementing their USAID-funded programs.

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