LINGOS
Executive Director Office: 425.462.4973 Mobile: 425.466.1451 Skype: pericberg www.lingos.org
Objective
LINGOs is a consortium of over 45 international humanitarian relief, development, conservation and health organizations. LINGOs provides the latest learning technologies and courses from partners so these non profits can increase the skill levels of their employees, and therefore increasing the impact of their programs. Created in 2005 as a means for organizations to share learning resources, LINGOs is continuously expanding as as more organizations become aware of the value of membership. LINGOs has served as a central contact point for private sector organizations that are interested in assisting the sector but want to see their contributions of software, courseware, systems and services be leveraged across many organizations. LINGOs operates a Learning Management System (LMS) that contains hundreds of courses on Leadership and Management Development, Information Technology, Project Management, Stress Management for Humanitarian Workers, Personal Safety and other topics. LINGOs Member Agencies can access the content through custom branded portals or through a shared portal depending on their level of membership. Finally, through the generous support of partner organizations, LINGOs makes available a wide range of tools for developing, distributing and implementing learning strategies.
Partners
APM Group, Apptix, Auralog, Cegos, eCornell, eLearning Guild, Elluminate, FeedbackToGo, Harvard Business Publishing, HunterStone, Impact E-Learning, IntraLearning Software Corporation, The MASIE Center, Microsoft, MindLeaders, Ninth House, OutStart, Project Management Institute, QuickLessons, Rustici Software, SurveyGizmo, Veotag, Viewpath
Funding
$144.000 HESAR
Beneficiaries
Objective:
The creation of a Project Management Learning Platform for nonprofits working in the development sector in Haiti where their staff could gain access to world-class learning opportunities on a wide range of project management and people management topics. The Institute would be located in the joint offices of Red R (www.redr.org) and Bioforce (http://www.bioforce.asso.fr) who currently have two locations in Haiti with the intention of being the one-stop-shop for nonprofit training in the country. The local counterparts of the project will contribute with in kind resources to the project. The project management and learning materials and direction will come from LINGOs whose PM4NGOs initiative has resulted in specialized nonprofit contextualized project management materials and the recently launched PMD Pro certification. It is anticipated that once the infrastructure is in place, the learning opportunities can be offered to a broader audience of local nonprofits and the national staff of international nonprofits currently working in Haiti. The creation of local capacity building capabilities will give the effort long-term sustainability. The main activities of the project will Include: - Translation of materials form English to French/Creole, - Training of local French speaking trainers to deliver curriculum, - Conducting face to face trainings and online coaching for all FOMIN funded nonprofits with at least two persons from each organization. - Dissemination of lessons learned and other knowledge products (linked to FOMIN’s Haiti learning community) to scale the project. Results: At the end of the project all participant nonprofits will have a detailed Project Execution Plan (PEP) and a Risk Management (Assessment and Mitigation) to carry out FOMIN’s projects and HESAR initiatives
FOMIN funding committed:
144,000
Why is FOMIN supporting LINGOS:
The work of field based project managers is becoming increasingly complex and their performance expectations have never been higher, especially in the case of Haiti, where due to the earthquake tragedy it is expected a huge amount of money flowing to the nonprofits; government and other humanitarian aid organizations. Faster communications means that there is less time to manage responses - and that there is greater scrutiny of what happens at field level. Project Managers are expected to hold together the work of teams of specialists, while managing the expectations of stakeholders both within their organizations and outside (donors, aid recipients, ministries, etc.) These extra demands require the ability to work in mixed, often changing teams with high pressure to perform in difficult contexts.
It is no surprise that one of the vexing challenges facing nonprofits and humanitarian organizations is the seemingly endless search for “super” project managers to cope with all of the above and deliver a quality results - on time, on budget and on scope.
Even though this request is not based on a previous project, it is submitted to HESAR initiative due to the importance to have FOMINs funded nonprofits trained in Project Management so they can face the new challenges of running the provision of existing services at the same time they manage additional projects and new funds pouring in the county. This training will have an impact not only in the achievement of results of FOMIN projects but also the rest of the projects being managed by the executing agencies working with FOMIN.
Recently, during the June 2010 workshop in Haiti with executing agencies, FOMIN conducted a survey to assess the needs of FOMINs executing agencies for Project Management tools and the results of this survey confirmed a very strong interest (100% of the responses) in getting Project Management coaching (survey results attached) with a compounded average of 6.5 potential candidates per executing agency. This would represent a total of around 130 people (considering only 20 executing agencies).
What is being funded?
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