Growing Stronger Together, a statement coined as the title of the initiative to reflect the aspiration of this journey, aimed to lift the
standard of the OPDs, improve and strengthen governance, build, and strengthened capacity, fortify our compliance and above all to reconfirm the relevance of the OPDS as NGOs operating in a very competitive and volatile environment.
Growing Stronger Together is simply improving compliance and meeting the due diligence on our donor partners. However, the process is coined for a more friendly understanding by the OPDs, that they understand what we are aiming to achieve, to build from a
strength base approach, for ownership of the process built on trust and complementarity. It is our transformation journey for the next three years.
The process is a program to be carried out across the OPD members who receives core funding and project funding from PDF and extended to all OPD members of the PDF Board who do not receive core or project funding from PDF and OPD as an associate member who receives project funding from PDF.
This process is pivotal for our members. The transformation journey for the OPD, to lift the standard of OPDs, improve compliance and have a functional efficient and effective OPDs, is a process to strengthen the OPDs for the next 3 years. While this is a due diligence process for donor funding, it is not called ‘due diligence’ for its donor-centric outlook, the process with the OPD is called “Growing Stronger Together” to encapsulate the essence of the goal of the process, a transformational journey to lift the standard of the OPD, strengthen our governance, grow and build capacity, improve our delivery, tell our story better and improve our convening power through the Leadership training and other trainings.
Below are some pictures from the field of the OPDs that have undergone training.
