The goal is to promote the sustainability of third sector organizations by adapting the concept of quality, focusing on capacity development and the recognition of good management practices. The final goal is the granting of a quality seal.
Integrity refers to several areas: interpersonal transgressive behavior (e.g., sexual exploitation and abuse), financial crimes (e.g., fraud), abuse of power, and professional crimes (e.g., failure to comply). standards or protocols related to the profession).
This quality standard has been developed specifically for civil society social support services (helplines), defined as “advice, guidance and support for self-help”. The standard consists of five themes: “Service and user groups”, “Professional approach and methodology”, “Competences”, “Values, ethics and legislation” and “Management”, each with an objective and a series of framework criteria. Emphasis is placed on reflection, transparency, systematic monitoring and participation.
For a dozen years, FORMEM - the Portuguese Federation for Vocational Training and Employment of People with Disabilities - has been promoting a broad debate on the indicators that can best reflect the impact of the activity and intervention of support organizations on people with disabilities. In the years leading up to the pandemic, benchmarking groups were very active, providing great support to organizations that
The purpose of these guidelines is to outline quality standards for project and program work shared by VENRO member organizations. They were adopted at the 2018 general assembly. VENRO members are committed to basing their work on these guiding principles and the basic understanding of development policy expressed in them. The guiding principles are developed in line with the Istanbul Principles that were adopted internationally in 2010.
This Guide offers a series of keys to help small and medium-sized organizations maximize the quality of their management processes, avoiding the influence of biased perspectives that cause invisibility, exclusion, inequity and lack of effectiveness.
Archimedes is a KMOP project funded by EEA Grants, which measures social impact by extrapolating multi-level data to obtain context-specific elasticities of different social fabrics in relation to different policies/programmes. These elasticities are the pillars of a comprehensive impact evaluation methodology.
The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), published in 2014, is a tool created by GROUPE URD, CHS ALLIANCE and SPHERE that establishes nine commitments to ensure that organizations support people and communities affected by crisis and vulnerability, respecting their rights and dignity and promoting their leading role in finding solutions to the crises they face.