SMO Resource List

Below you’ll find training courses, resource packages, webinar series and more, all designed to help small and medium-sized organizations achieve sustainable results more effectively.

Trainings

This self-paced eLearning course covers basic Results-Based Management (RBM) concepts, how it can be applied, and provides participants with hands-on practice using some key RBM tools.

The goal of the Building Equity training program is to build capacity and confidence to develop a diversified, ethical, and equity-centred fundraising and resource mobilization strategy.

By referring to travel risk, this course will enable organizations to equip themselves with the means and procedures to identify, analyze and deal with these and similar other organizational risks.

Learn how to plan your data collection through gender-sensitive, feminist and community-led approaches and by leveraging technology through asynchronous learning modules.

Before starting your project, review your indicators, outline your data collection methods, and create a sampling plan for your baseline data through asynchronous learning modules.

This course builds off RBM 101 and encourages learning through application. Work through exercises with a sample case study or your own project to develop a theory of change, logic model, PMF and more.

Review presentation slides from the PIP Training—highlighting some key questions to ask yourself as you are developing your organization’s own PIP for a GAC-funded project or other.

Learn to assess your organization’s fundraising streams and be better equipped to deal with unforeseen crises with an established action plan.  

Review presentation slides from the PIP Training—highlighting some key questions to ask yourself as you are developing your organization’s own PIP for a GAC-funded project or other.

Webinars

This webinar series focuses on the impact stories of SMOs and the impact of GAC’s SMO initiative as a whole on the international cooperation sector and around the world.

This informal conversation series was centered on peer-to-peer learning, providing plenty of opportunities for folks to get engaged through exploring processes, tools, and best practices for incorporating gender and intersectionality into a project’s RBM framework.

Presented in collaboration with Oxfam Canada, Plan Canada and MEDA this webinar looks at how to apply feminist principles to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) practice.

During this webinar, the Fund for Innovation and Transformation shares some gender tools, approaches and lessons learned from their program to better support SMOs seeking to test innovative solutions that advance gender equality.

Funders usually require organizations to submit a financial statement of the most recent fiscal year when applying for a grant. This webinar provides an overview of what such a statement looks like and expectations.

Reports

This report aims to highlight the valuable contributions that Canadian international SMOs have in the sector, how SMOs have been accessing capacity-building and knowledge sharing support, and demonstrate the value in supporting SMOs.

This report is meant to serve as a learning tool for all Canadian international cooperation actors. In analyzing both the challenges and benefits associated with Canada’s enabling environment, it identifies ways to strengthen and facilitate the crucial international cooperation work carried out by Canadian SMOs.

This report examines how Canadian SMOs have had to significantly adapt to the changing context of the COVID-19 pandemic. With diverse responses, the report explores how many SMOs harnessed this period of global disruption to take a step back and truly consider their role in global development.

This report aims to highlight how SMOs have adapted and shown resilience in the face of the pandemic. The primary objective of this report is to examine the extent to which SMOs have exhibited flexibility in their pandemic response, and whether and how this enhances their resilience in the face of the global crisis.

This report illustrates highlights of a needs assessment assessing the capacity building needs and knowledge gaps of Canadian SMOs working in international cooperation.

Youth-Led Public Engagement

On this page, find youth-made resources you can use as inspiration for future public engagement activities. These resources were created by the third cohort of the Youth Champions Program.  

Learn more about Spur Change

Review the recording and presentation of the program at its inception in 2019.

Review an overview of the intentions behind the Youth Champions Program, a program designed to equip youth and become more engaged with SMOs.