WHO WE ARE
The Center for Institutional and Technical Support for Civil Society Organisations (CITS) is an independent not-for-profit advisory organization dedicated to strengthening programmatic and institutional capacities of nonprofit organizations. CITS seeks to leverage on focused and specialist nonprofit management expertise to facilitate a more efficient, sustainable and impactful Civil Society. At CITS, we believe that in more than stronger programme theories and access to financial resources, institutionally stronger implementing partners are needed to deliver development efforts that are evidence-based, tractable, transparent, and accountable.
We strive to tackle back and front end nonprofit organizational challenges with a strenuous focus on evidence-based decision making and look to incorporate existing evidence to support our partners while simultaneously and continuously improving the effectiveness of partners’ programs and projects.
To implement our support to partners, we use research, training and convening methods, selected and conducted by a team of experts according to the field and context of focus. With a partnership approach we are always in contact and in constant exchange with our partners to identify areas for improvement and innovation. We are convinced that development efforts are better delivered, learned from and scaled in partnership, and we strive to ensure that our work reflect these ideals. We therefore work with stakeholders in funding, regulation and implementation arenas across levels and across policy areas to ensure that our interventions are programmatically and institutionally responsive to the local context needs of the partners we support.
OUR VISION
To facilitate a more resilient and impact nonprofits sector through non profit advisory and consulting
OUR VALUES
Sustainable partnership, Credibility, Innovation, Agility
CITS TEAM
Our team is composed of core executive team and a pool of technical associates and Mentee Associates
The core executive team
The Executive team is comprised of 3 members of the Senior Management Team (SMT) and 4 thematic Technical Advisory Leads (TTAL). The Senior Management Team is overseen by 5 member Non Executive Board.
Senior Management Team
- Director Institutional and Technical Support services
- Deputy Director Institutional and Technical Support services
- Administrative Manager
Thematic Technical Leads
- Technical Lead – Programme Audits, Measurement and Evidence
- Technical Lead – Programme Design, Learning, Adaptation and Scale up
- Technical Lead – Organisational Development and Programme Leadership
- Technical Lead – Civil Society and Non Profit Academy
Administrative support
- Finance and administration Officer
- Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Officer
- Administrative Assistant
Who we support
We work three categories of partners:
First, we support programme and project implementers at organizational, project team and individual level to strengthen programme and projects.
Second, we work with funders and intermediary funders to support mainstream systems and institutions and monitoring the compliance with programme and administrative agreement conditions.
Third, we partner with sector regulator to help strengthen and grow the sector
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
We are an organization with strong roots in programme management, workforce development and in education and training. Providing services such as programme or project design support, measurement and evidence building, learning and scaling, and organizational development, helps us realize our goal of being a continuous learning organisation while building strong institutional knowledge around best nonprofit management practices. Enabling other nonprofit organizations increase their efficiency, sustainability and impact is just another way we can have positive impact in the larger nonprofit community.
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