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Evaluating the results of the Institutional Excellence Grant interventions for civil society organizations that joined the grant in its first cycle 2023-2024..


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Aug 7, 2024

During the month of July, the work team at the Arab Center for the Sustainability of Civil Action completed the implementation of the activities of the Institutional Excellence Grant, as a post-institutional evaluation was conducted for 48 civil society organizations 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 until July. 2024 ...

The Institutional Excellence Grant included several stages that all organizations went through, as the door for applications was opened during the month of August 2023. In its first session, 163 NGOs from 23 governorates applied for the grant, and 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, and based on the results of the institutional evaluation, a development plan was prepared. The institutional assessment of civil society organizations for each organization separately, according to 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 a final stage after the completion of the implementation of the institutional development plan with NGOs 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 graduating the NGOs that have completed implementing the planned institutional development interventions, with these organizations joining the network of NGO graduates in the Institutional Performance Development Laboratory of For the Arab Center for the Sustainability of Civil Work..

💡It is worth noting that all services related to the grant were provided free of charge to civil society organizations.