Chapter 5 - How Ready is Your NGO to Implement Anti-Corruption Programs?

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Chapter 5 looks at the qualities that an NGO needs to have if it wants to engage in effective anti-corruption work, particularly whether it can clearly define anti-corruption objectives that it has a chance of achieving. It looks at the capacities than an individual NGO needs in terms of credibility, reputation, and risk management. It then looks at general organisational competence necessary for NGOs that are prepared for the long fight to defeat corruption, and their ability to set realistic and achievable objectives. It provides exercises and self-learning tools for NGOs to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and ways to build their capacity in areas where they are weak. Finally it introduces a scenario based on the imaginary region of Agraria in the country of Agronomia to try these ideas out.

Chapter Contents

Clarifying the Identity of the NGO

The Basis of the NGO’s Mandate

How the NGO is Perceived

Clarifying who is on the side of the NGO

How the NGO is placed if things get dirty

How the NGO handles personal risks

Self-Assessment

Brutal Honesty

Setting Objectives (Agraria scenario)

            Stakeholder Analysis

            Problem Identification

            Problem Tree

Objectives Tree

Analysis of Alternative Strategies

Making a Logframe

Hierarchy of Objectives

Assumptions/Risks

Indicators of Success/Means of verification

Figure 2: Log frame for Agraria

Workplanning

Figure 3: Workplan for Agraria

Summing Up

 

Annex 5/1:       Legitimacy Check list

Annex 5/2        Characteristics of NGOs at different stages

Annex 5/3        How to use the OCAT for NGOs

Annex 5/4        General Organisational Capacity Assessment Tool (OCAT)

Author(s): Richard Holloway