Aug 7, 2024

During the month of July, the work team at the Arab Center for Sustaining Civil Action completed the implementation of activities Institutional Excellence Grant, where a post-institutional evaluation was conducted for 48 NGOs in 16 different governorates of the Republic, after completing the implementation of institutional development interventions in accordance with the agreed-upon time plan for the grant, which was implemented during the period from August 2023 to July 2024 ...

The Institutional Excellence Grant included several stages that all organizations went through, where Applications were opened during the month of August 2023. In its first session, 163 NGOs from 23 governorates applied for the grant. According to a number of criteria, 55 organizations were selected. After the selection stage, a pre-institutional evaluation was conducted for the NGOs to identify their institutional capabilities. Based on the results of the institutional evaluation, a plan was prepared for the institutional development of NGOs for each organization individually. To meet the institutional needs of each organization, and based on institutional development plans, a set of interventions were implemented with the aim of strengthening the institutional and organizational capabilities of these organizations and overcoming the institutional challenges they face, and finally conducting a post-institutional evaluation of these organizations...

The post-institutional evaluation stage comes as the final stage after completion From implementing the institutional development plan with civil society organizations with the Institutional Excellence Grant, with the aim of identifying the current institutional capabilities after implementing a number of interventions and measuring the impact of the change that occurred on these organizations, in preparation for the graduation of civil society organizations that have completed the implementation of the planned institutional development interventions, provided that these organizations join the network of graduates of civil society organizations in the Institutional Performance Development Laboratory of the Arab Center for Business Sustainability. Al-Ahly..

It is worth noting that all private services The grant was provided free of charge to civil society organizations.