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Following a series of studies conducted by the Young Initiative Association and World Vision Romania on 111 Romanian NGOs (out of which 37 from the rural areas) it emerged both a consistent lack of sustainability of the Romanian nonprofit sector, strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a strong need of education and direct support for the members of Romanian nonprofits.
The project will provide a complex programme for supporting the organizations, with fully complementary activities, structured on 3 main pillars:
1. NGO Accelerator Programme - programme through which 10 NGOs from rural areas and 10 NGOs active in the fields of youth, civic education, environment and human rights will benefit, for 17 months, of a package of coaching and mentoring activities, learning activities and developing a learning network between the beneficiary NGOs, targeting longer-term changes in their organizations.
2. Package of 3 online courses with free access (MOOC) - we will build 3 packages of educational experiences on the following topics: Organisational Resilience, Good Governance, Nonprofit Communication. These courses will be open, free and self-paced and will form an essential part of the learning component of the Accelerator programme.
3. Self-Accelerator Tool - In order to increase the sustainability and the relevance of the project the Young Initiative Associationwill build a tool that will encompass key coaching and mentoring tools used in the first pillar of the project, adapting them for NGOs which want to go through the organisational development process in an unfacilitated/self-paced manner.
The project will be implemented in partnership with World Vision Romania.