Activities & Services

Training

DIG provides the following sets of training services:

Training Services

  • •Standard Training Programs that meet general training needs for wide range of professionals and job seekers
  • •Custom Designed Programs that are tailored to suite staff of specific institution or group of professionals/practitioners
  • •Training Support Services including designing training packages, producing training manuals, establishing training units, promoting training programs implemented by other institutions, and developing institutional training frameworks

Training Thematic Areas

  • •Organizational Management and Development (OMD)
  • •Program/Project Cycle Management (PCM)
  • •Development Concepts and Approaches (DCA)
  • •Business Development and Management (BDM)
  • •Professional Skills (PSK)

Training Approach

  • •Participatory, step-by-step, practical, and learning-by-doing approach
  • •Build capacity to produce results of immediate value
  • •Intensively interactive with minimum formal lectures
  • •Maximum participatory activities and extensive use of small group discussions
  • •Methods include plenary discussions, buzz groups, individual reflection, case studies, role plays, exercises, games, demonstrations, and assignments

Consultations and Technical Assistance

DIG provides consultations and technical assistance services to development agencies, programs, and companies as well as community structures and groups.

Service Areas

  • •Projects Formulation and Design (PFD)
  • •Management Systems Development (MSD)
  • •Program/Project Evaluation (PEV)
  • •Institutional Capacity Assessment (ICA)
  • •Institutional Capacity Building (ICB)
  • •Bassline Surveys, Researches, and Studies (BRS)

Approach

  • •Both "work for" and "work with" approaches
  • •Experts serve as facilitators assisting institutions to assess their needs and priorities
  • •Define capacity-building gaps
  • •Design interventions that address these needs and gaps

Workshops

DIG organized 36 workshops as per following categories:

Workshop Categories

  • •Introductory/Launching Workshops (ILW): concerned with launching of new projects or services and promotion of new institutions to their stakeholders and potential customers
  • •Consultative Workshops (COW): aiming at getting feedback or inputs on specific product (report, study results, plan, etc.) from various stakeholders' groups and entities
  • •Follow-Up Workshops (FUW): for reviewing results and outputs that has been achieved in a development intervention including annual reviews, midterm evaluation, and backstopping missions

Publications and Manuals

DIG developed and produced 44 manuals as per following categories:

Manual Categories

  • •Operation Manuals (OPM): aims at improving work effectiveness and efficiency through designing/redesigning of work operations and processes. It manifested in mapping of existing processes, reengineering/establishing new processes, and developing Standard Operating Procedures manual (SOPs)
  • •Practitioners' Manuals (PRM): developed to help entities and staff members perform their duties in an organized and consistent manner. Includes frameworks, elements, and steps to be considered and followed in applying certain approach or performing specific job
  • •Trainers' Manuals (TRM): developed to assist those who are responsible for training in terms of organizing training activities, developing training packages, and delivering training sessions