What We Do
Our Programmes
IIDC’s Technical Assistance (TAs) Support programmes are framed around a set of Core and Thematic areas.
Core Areas
Thematic Areas
Core Areas
These relate to crosscutting dimensions of organizational capacity for impactful organizational performance regardless of the developmental sector/theme: IIDC’s Core areas of technical support include;
Program Design
Supporting partners with tools and approaches that design programs that address the challenges of the target population.
Measurement and evidence generation
Supporting partners with tools and skills to track change and generate evidence of what works.
Learning and Knowledge management
Supporting partners with tools for documenting learning and facilitating sharing with peers under thematic cohort.
Adaptation and scaling up
Supporting partners adapt and scale proven development models (vertical and horizontal scale)
Safeguarding
Supporting partners improve safeguarding in programme design and operations.
Our current technical support programmes cover all these areas.
Thematic Areas
These relate to the technical dimensions of organizational programming focus. Currently IIDC is supporting partners working in the following thematic areas;
- Social protection
- Prevention of violence against women and children
- Education
- Health.
Our Delivery mechanisms
Training
Based on the needs of our partners, we organize targeted and specialized trainings for partner representatives to impart transferable skills and competences using empowering and participatory methodologies and well thought out curricula. Our trainings cover all our core areas of expertise.
Mentorship
Our highly skilled technical advisors offer hands-on, be-spoke mentorship and accompaniment to our partner staff to enhance and hone-in specific skills and competencies for impactful performance.
Convenings (physical and nonphysical)
To promote peer experiential learning, we organize and facilitate convenings that bring together partners in similar leaning cohorts to share and learn with and from each other’s experiences of success programming and failure.
Most of our TAs initiatives include a combination of the three delivery methodologies.
Our Current Technical support programmes
Capacity development in safeguarding
IIDC currently runs capacity development training in safeguarding with a goal of supporting implementing partners develop contexualised safeguarding policies, implement, develop safeguarding cultures and learn.
Below are the running initiatives.
• September 2020 to July 2023: Enhancing Safeguarding Capacities of OAK Foundation Partner Organisations in Eastern Africa funded by Oak Foundation. IIDC provides Technical Assistance to 13 OAK funded implementing organisations across Eastern Africa.
• Oct 2021- April 2023: Learning Partnership to improve Safeguarding in Uganda, funded by Civ Source Africa Usalama Fund (Funders Safeguarding Collaborative). IIDC facilitates safeguarding capacity development and learning with 11 implementing partners
• Safeguarding support to other partners under Wellsprings Philanthropic Fund prevention of violence against children.
learning and knowledge management
IIDC learning and knowledge management contributes to a goal of ensuring effectiveness of interventions through learning, documenting and sharing of evidence-based models and programming.
The following projects are implemented under learning and knowledge management:
• July 2016-June 2023: Learning Initiative on Preventing Violence Against Children in East Africa, Funded by Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and IIDC provides learning TAs to 8 implementing partners.
• VaCNets virtual hub- Funded by CRVPF.
• IIDC developed and manages an online virtual hub learning on evidence-based prevention of violence against children in East Africa. We support partners to document evidences and share to shape agenda for impactful practice, advocacy and policy.
• October 2021-July 2023: Learning convenings on Male care giving for partners in the East and Southern Africa region, funded by Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. IIDC convene learnings among 22 partner organisations implementing male caregiving.
Adaptation and scale
IIDC adaptation and scale up program aims at increasing the impact of evidence proven development models to social transformation at scale in different contexts.
• July 2022- June 2027: Scale up of Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers program funded by the LEGO foundation. IIDC leads a consortium of other 5 development partners (Somero Uganda, World Education Bantwana, Federation for African Women Educationalist-FAWE, All Nations Child Development Centre-ANCDC and University of California San Diego) scaling REAL Fathers in 6 context regions and incorporating in government social development action plans.
Our work contributes to the following SDGs
We Learn
In spite of decades of investment in different social sectors, development partners and nonprofits continue to grapple with the lack of significant and sustainable positive changes in communities around East Africa. IIDC is exploring innovations around technical assistance that can support organizations to design programmes that meet the actual needs of communities and continue to improve these interventions based on key learnings.
