Human resources
The Woord en Daad organization continues to invest in a professional staff pool working on a basis of mutual trust, flexibility and loyalty. Our work is organised project-based, joining experts from North and South together in entrepreneurial teams focussed on result. Apart from our own staff we draw expertise from our flex-pool.
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The new policy direction invites for new learning curves in terms of knowledge and skills. The Woord en Daad Academy as internal capacity building platform supports the staff pool in focussed learning on personal and strategic priorities. An important focus will be on how to integrate the strategic policy themes into programming, and how to adopt adaptive management practices in projects.
The strategic move to work in broader partnerships for systemic change asks for adjusted and new roles. Strategic partnership builders will scout for new potential partners. Project leaders and experts will collaborate with a more diverse range of stakeholders and engage in a strategic dialogue on higher institutional level. Finance in projects and the organization will broaden with a role on forecasting and business planning to support adaptive planning and navigation. Qualified local project coordinators, data analysts and monitoring & evaluation experts are increasingly needed. A new national or regional role of data analyst is explored to support local and theme-specific trend analysis to contribute to our in-depth understanding of the context and steer our interventions.
Data-driven ICT
Supportive IT systems that are flexible and open are important for data exchange between varying stakeholders. It is key to collect, analyse and share data as steering information during implementation, rather than afterwards for reporting only.
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We will strategically invest in IT solutions to make use of expanded technical possibilities, especially where currently no fitting IT options are available. Together with the ProjectConnect Foundation we will develop tailored solutions that can be broader exploited in the sector, aiming at return on investment. Principally we look for IT applications that can boost our impact in projects and improve engagement of our supporter base.
International Corporate Social Responsibility (ICSR)
Our wish to motivate and support enterprises to run their business in a responsible manner is very naturally linked to our mission and vision. Businesses Woord en Daad cooperates with are working in fragile and poor countries, where there is a high risk of exploitation and human rights violations.
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To address this, we will apply our ICSR policy, guiding how we will motivate and support businesses we work with to do business in a sustainable manner. We require that private consortium partners work in line with international ICSR regulations from the UN and OECD, as required by Dutch government. If that is not yet the case, we will ask those businesses to do so. Local businesses we work with are supported to work more sustainably. Living wage and decent work are the two priority themes for which we use in-house monitoring tools.
