Social Development Expertise
CEEN offers knowledge, skills, research and training on Social & Community Development, particularly on issues related to promotion of Ethnic Minorities, Equal Rights, Environment & Health. The focus is on the public sector actors (Ministries of Social Affairs, other Government Agencies), which have programmes targeting these issues and the development of the non-profit sector, but also on NGO development per se.
CEEN possesses expertise in the area of Social Development & Civil Society. Due to the complexity of our field of business and the multi-faceted nature of the issues, it is of the utmost importance to form strategic alliances to pool resources & combine knowledge to optimize results. We have formed strategic alliances with a number of specialized partners to maximize customer satisfaction.
The areas covered include:
- Research and Survey – conducting surveys of NGO sector and interviews (development of survey questionnaires, management of collection, interpretation of results), elaboration of monitoring indicators, development & maintenance of database, monitoring of NGO sector at regional and local level
- Programming – elaboration of programming documents (overall strategy, priorities, measures) based on sector analyses, elaboration of selection criteria and procedures for implementation
- Grant management – development of documents for each stage & management of the implementation cycle (texts for calls, application forms, evaluation grids, selection criteria; awarding grants)
- Survey consulting – Our survey consulting services staff ensures that a survey program returns actionable information that clearly identifies areas of strength and opportunities of the studied field. Services include: Needs Analysis, Questionnaire Review, Interview, Instrument Pre-Test, Written Interpretive Reports, Presentation of Survey Results, Action Planning
- Evaluation – elaboration of methodology for assessing impact of grant programmes & specialized criteria for individual project assessments
- Training – training in NGO development, NGO management, lobbying and Advocacy techniques, conducting of surveys, Trainer of Trainers’ programmes.
- Grant management – elaboration of eligibility criteria, application forms, procedure manuals, organizational structures, HR strategies, Performance Measurement of centralised and decentralized functions, et cetera.
- Monitoring – definition of monitoring report contents, development of indicators, elaboration of software for programme monitoring
