Objectives
• Build capacity of two regional networks in their efforts to provide network-strengthening services to country-level networks.• Deepen lateral learning between networks as a key strategy for network strengthening. LLNS will accomplish this goal through action research and peer-learning activities that develop and transfer knowledge on network best practices.
Components
• Network capacity assessments to provide customized institutional diagnostics and a baseline study that measures network institutional development over time.• Network institutional strengthening services.
• Collaborative learning activities such as network working groups, global network summits, technical resource development and dissemination, and Web-based forums.
Network Participants
• Sub-Saharan Africa: The African Microfinance Network (AFMIN)• Central America: Red Centroamericana de Microfinanzas (REDCAMIF)
USAID-PVC NGO Sector Strengthening Program
The LLNS Project is funded by USAID-PVC's NGO Sector Strengthening program. The program aims to help local indigenous non-governmental organizations (NGOs), networks, and intermediate service organizations (ISOs) become more efficient and effective in the delivery of development services.
NGO Sector Strengthening Program Participants:
• Africare
• Global Rights: Partners for Justice
• International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
• International Development Enterprises (IDE)
• Mercy Corps International
• Pan-American Development Foundation (PADF)
• Planning Assistance
• Private Agencies Collaborating Together, Inc. (PACT)
• Project Concern International (PCI)
• Save the Children/USA
• Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network
• World Learning
• World Relief Corporation