Context, international cooperation

Watch now! Introduction video to Social Return On Investment

User — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:26:16 +0000

This introduction video to Social Return on Investment will take you on a brief journey through the basics of SROI. Why SROI? What are the purposes of SROI? And how does it work? Watch this short video to find an answer to these questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1fY-TmPYPw&feature=youtu.be

Want to find out more about SROI? Click here for a short write-up on SROI.

New book is published: Facilitating Organisational Change within Development Organisations

User — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:48:52 +0000

A new book of Context director Fons van der Velden ‘Facilitating Organisational Change within Development Organisations; A Resource Book for Development practitioners’ has been presented in Jaipur, India on March 20, 2013.

Staff members of Context partner organisation Cecoedecon presented the first copy to Prof Dr Shanti K. Khinduka, dean emeritus of the George Warren Brown School of Social work, Washington University in St Louis.

This book has emerged from interaction with development practitioners, policy makers, social entrepreneurs and academics through trainings, learning trajectories, evaluations and action research. The core ambition behind its development is to provide an introduction, a primer, into the subject of capacity development.

The book provides an excellent practice based introduction and guidance for policy makers, practitioners and students with regard to the subject of capacity development.

The book costs € 15,- (including delivery) and can be obtained by sending an email to info@developmenttraining.org. Please provide a delivery and billing address.

‘What gets measured, gets done’ – blog by Elaine Reinke, IFAD about SROI training and assessment, facilitated by Context

User — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:35:42 +0000

“My social life is very important to me”, declares Jihad Al-Hakimi, Microfinance Manager of the Economic Opportunities Fund in Yemen, grabs his wedding ring from the table and places it above my ipad. As part of this valuation exercise, participants of the Social Return on Investment (SROI) training were asked to bring a number of personal items and rank them by their value – not so easy, given that the 21 trainees had very different views about the value of their items.

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Click here to read the entire blog on the website of IFAD

Context is currently working on an SROI assignment for IFAD

User — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:32:49 +0000

Context is currently conducting an SROI training and assessment in ElObeid, Sudan commissioned by IFAD. This is part of a larger assignment, focused on the learning side of impact assessment; piloting Social Return on Investment for knowledge generation and project-based learning in Sudan and Yemen.

Meld je aan voor het interessante trainingstraject ‘Ondernemend leren werken’

User — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:28:17 +0000

Dankzij een samenwerking van het Oranjefonds, Movisie en Context kunnen 7 bewonersinitiatieven uit de regio Utrecht binnenkort kosteloos meedoen aan vijf workshops over het versterken van interne bedrijfsvoering en ondernemerschap. Tussen de workshops krijgen de initiatieven individueel ondersteuning bij het toepassen van de kennis en het uitwerken van hun specifieke verbeterpunten.

Een mooie kans om toepasbare kennis op te doen en uw netwerk uit te breiden.

Klik op de flyer voor meer informatie over het traject: Ondernemend leren werken

Aanmelden kan tot 8 februari door een korte beschrijving van je initiatief en een motivatie voor deelname te sturen aan Marieke Sterenborg: mst@developmenttraining.org

Interview with Fons van der Velden in TAO magazine

User — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:11:30 +0000

TAO magazine (of the student association of cultural anthropology and development studies in Nijmegen) conducted an interview with Fons van der Velden in December 2012. The interview can be read here.

Workshop at Afrika dag

User — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:15:19 +0000

On Saturday 17 November 2012 Context was, together with CDI, present at the Afrikadag (Africa Day) in Amsterdam. Jan Brouwers and David Postma from CDI and Hotze Lont from Context hosted a workshop “Making a Difference at Scale? – Why Complexity, Cognition and the Politics of Development Matters “, which was very well attended until the last seat. The workshop has been successful and good feedback was received. Participants were enthusiastic and appreciated it to work practically in small groups.

Publication: Facilitating Organisational Learning; Insights from Practice

User — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:24:25 +0000

At the PSO conference in The Hague on November 23, 2012 the publication ‘Facilitating Organisational Learning; Insights from Practice’ (written by Geert Phlix, Fons van der Velden, Marieke de Wal and Kees Zevenbergen) was presented. You can read it here.

artikel in Trouw ‘Sociaal ondernemerschap helpt armste snelst vooruit’ van Fons van der Velden en Gert van Dijk

User — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:27:31 +0000

Artikel van Fons van der Velden en Gert van Dijk ‘Sociaal ondernemerschap helpt armste snelst vooruit’ gepubliceerd in de Trouw van 16 oktober 2012 is hier te lezen.

2 new blogs of Fons van der Velden

User — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:56:37 +0000

Blog ‘Slow capital: the missing middle’
Click here to read

Blog ‘The myth of microfinance’
Click here to read