UN Spotlight CCBP
To kick-off the 2023-2024 Rotary year, the District 7030 Empowering Girls Team is now proud to announce a new and valuable opportunity via the Spotlight initiative to build and enhance institutional and organizational capacity among Rotary and Rotaract clubs and members across our region...
Originally geared towards stakeholders within Grenada and Guyana, the Regional Cohort of the 2023 Spotlight Civil Society Organization Capacity Building Programme (CCBP), has now opened up to Rotary and Rotaract clubs from around District 7030 thanks to the efforts of our Empowering Girls Team. Along with other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Rotary and Rotaract clubs have been identified as community-service based groups within UN Spotlight countries that would benefit from participation in the CCBP and, therefore, have been extended the offer to fully participate in this robust and result-oriented, four-month programme.
As part of the Spotlight initiative, the goal of the CCBP is to strengthen CSOs in the Caribbean so that they can begin and/or continue efforts to end GBV/VAWG in communities. Therefore, the CCBP not only presents a great opportunity for Rotary and Rotaract clubs in District 7030 to strengthen themselves in terms of governance, management and administration, leadership and succession planning, funding and sustainability, but also, allows clubs to get involved with efforts to end GBV/VAWG in their respective communities and consequently activities to Empower Girls Now. Additionally, the CCBP provides participating individuals with a chance to build and enhance their own knowledge and skill-sets in a variety of subjects that can be successfully applied beyond Rotary.
THE PROGRAMME
- The goal of the CCBP is to build, enhance and reinforce organizational capacities through a series of modules delivered via FREE virtual workshops, clinics and an interactive video course covering a wide range of subjects and best practices relevant to any and all CSOs in the Caribbean, including:
- Leadership & Advocacy
- Strategic Communications
- Board Recruitment, Onboarding, Development and Management
- Volunteer Recruitment, Onboarding, Development and Management
- Core/Foundational Resource Mobilisation
- Successful Fundraising & Alternative Funding
- Strategic Planning for Caribbean CSOs
- Project Identification, Development and Proposal Writing
- Project Cycle Management for Maximum Impact
- Metrics for Success: Monitoring & Evaluation Essentials
- Workshops will introduce the topic areas, explore and build upon participants’ knowledge and skills in the respective modules. Clinics are hands-on, interactive, and practical sessions for applying skills learnt to produce a viable deliverable for an organisation. A self-directed video course allows participants to take a deep dive into the subject matter, providing clear definitions, detailed examples, a step by step guide and practical tips for application of the best practices covered.
REQUIREMENTS
- Participating CSOs must demonstrate their engagement in and/or commitment to current or future efforts that seek to end GBV/VAWG through activities, projects, programmes or partnerships centered on education and awareness, prevention or intervention
- The CCBP runs for 15 weeks where representatives of participating CSOs are prepared to commit to attend programme workshop and clinic sessions
- Participants are required to actively engage in the discussions and session activities, turning and keeping cameras on for the duration of the session. The highly interactive nature of the sessions does not allow for passive listening as though attending a lecture series; these are hands-on, high participation sessions that require participants' full attention and willingness to share, ask questions and contribute to driving/enhancing the discussion and knowledge-sharing experience.
- Two (2) appropriate representatives from a participating CSO (i.e. Rotary/Rotaract club) are expected to attend every session where a participating CSO can have EITHER the same two (2) representatives attend all sessions of the CCBP covering all modules OR two (2) different representatives can attend respective sessions for each module - for example, if John and Mary from your club attend the Board Development workshop sessions, they are expected/required to also attend the Board Development clinic sessions; however, Tom and Harry from your club, can alternatively attend the Strategic Planning workshop and clinic - this way, there is some degree of flexibility in attendance among your club's possible representatives where no sole two persons are the only ones that have to attend all sessions if their schedules do not permit, and, where several other appropriate persons in your club can benefit from the programme.
- Certificates will be given to participants and participating CSOs only upon meeting the minimum attendance and participation requirements for successful completion of the programme
SCHEDULE
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MODULE: Workshop/Clinic
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SECTION | DATE + TIME |
|---|---|---|
| Video Course: 7 Simple Steps to Small Scale Advocacy (available in Beginning to Intermediate Level and Advanced Level—please complete the course at the level you feel best suits your experience) | Parts 1-9 (Beginner-Intermediate) or 10 (Advanced) | Self-directed; Opens: Wed, 12th Jul 2023 and Closes: 31st Oct 2023 |
| Workshop: The Leader in Me | Part 1 | Tue, 18th Jul 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 20th Jul 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Strategic Communications: "The Art of Wooing and Winning: Telling Your Story to Grow Your Network" | Part 1 | Tue, 25th Jul 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 27th Jul 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Intro to Board Recruitment, Onboarding, Development and Management | Part 1 | Thu, 3rd Aug 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Tue, 8th Aug 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Clinic: Board Recruitment, Onboarding, Development and Management | Part 1 | Thu, 10th Aug 2023 |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Tue, 15th Aug 2023 | |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Intro to Volunteer Recruitment, Onboarding, Development and Management | Part 1 | Thu, 17th Aug 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Tue, 22nd Aug 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Clinic: Volunteer Recruitment, Onboarding, Development and Management | Part 1 | Thu, 24th Aug 2023 |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Tue, 29th Aug 2023 | |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Clinic: Getting Funding-ready | Part 1 | Tue, 5th Sep 2023 |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 7th Sep 2023 | |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Core/Foundational Resource Mobilisation | Part 1 | Tue, 12th Sep 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 14th Sep 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Wooing and Winning for Fundraising Success | Part 1 | Mon, 18th Sep 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Wed, 27th Sep 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Alternative Means of Funding | Part 1 | Tue, 19th Sep 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 21st Sep 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Clinic: Alternative Means of Funding | Part 1 | Tue, 26th Sep 2023 |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 28th Sep 2023 | |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Strategic Planning for Caribbean CSOs | Part 1 | Tue, 3rd Oct 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 5th Oct 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Clinic: Strategic Planning for Caribbean CSOs | Part 1 | Tue, 10th Oct 2023 |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 12th Oct 2023 | |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Clinic: Project Identification, Development and Proposal Writing | Part 1 | Tue, 17th Oct 2023 |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 19th Oct 2023 | |
| 6:30-9:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Making Our Mark: Project Cycle Management for Maximum Impact | Part 1 | Tue, 24th Oct 2023 |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Part 2 | Thu, 26th Oct 2023 | |
| 6:30-8:00p AST | ||
| Workshop: Metrics for Success: M&E Essentials | Both Parts | Tue, 31st Oct 2023 |
| 6:30-9:00p AST |
INTERSTED
- Rotary and Rotaract clubs in District 7030 are asked to take this offer seriously and with the intent to fully commit to program and schedule
- Once your club is interested in the CCBP where it can demonstrate current and/or future commitments to efforts to end GBV/VAWG, and has selected appropriate representatives to attend the programme's workshop and clinic sessions, your club president will need to complete and submit an online application form on or before 08:00 p.m. AST on Monday 17th July 2023.
For more information, please contact Maria Mohammed-Maharaj or Sean Paddy