Stichting Connect International

Our core expertise covers the following fields:

• Strenghtening the internal organization of local NGO’s and local companies in developing countries through participative capacity building. This includes such issues as:
- organization self assessment,
- organization improvement planning,
- capacity building trajectories on specific organization issues,
- development or fine-tuning of Vision and Mission,
- development and improvement of HRM aspects,
- financial bookkeeping and financial management,
- logistics, projects,
- organization culture,
- internal organization procedures,
- PMER system for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting,
- external relations,
- project management.
• Low cost water and sanitation solutions (capacity building of trainers, companies and local NGO’s for their roles in introducing such solutions in rural areas; technical, managerial, ).
• Community development (capacity building of trainers and local NGO’s for their roles in facilitating community powered development of rural communities and Village Action Groups).
• Institutional development at the national level for the mainstreaming of low-cost water and sanitation solutions in developing countries.
• People participation in decision making processes (in the Netherlands).

Why CI Consult?

We provide the highest possible expertise for an affordable price.

NGO's, both local and international, often lack the skills and/or time to further improve themselves, develop new services (e.g. new types of projects) or assess their own performance. Very often also these NGO's do not have the financial resources to hire expensive consultants to assist them with such activities. Therefore Connect International has developed a consultancy service for exactly these NGO's. We work with highly experienced consultants, a mix of our expatriate staff and local staff employed with our direct partner organizations. They therefore do not require high consultancy fees, only coverage of their salaries during the days they provide the consultancy service, travel costs and a small per diem.

Building on quality systems and experience

We embark on the quality systems, the concepts and strategies that we have developed during the last ten years. But most of all our strength comprises the consultants we send: people who master the required skills of tutoring, facilitation, ánd the subjects to be covered, through years of experience with exactly those subjects. They are people who work in implementation and training and facilitation full time. So no theoretical coverage of subjects but people who explain things from years of in-depth experience and who work on these issues every day, often in the field, together with and for the beneficiaries we aim to assist.

We invite you to explore the content of our services on this website. If you are interested please contact us.