ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Through our grant making principles Comic Relief expects all organisations applying for funding to
demonstrate how they will build effective organisations and social movements.
You are expected to complete and upload an organisational development plan in respect of each local partner,
demonstrating how you plan to strengthen their capacity over the life of the project. There are a number of
organisational capacity assessment tools (OCAT) available to help you benchmark capacity across a number of
different areas and identify priorities for improvement. Whilst we don’t insist that you use one particular tool,
BOND, NIDOS and McKinsey have developed sector-specific ones which you may find useful.
You should use this template to outline the organisational development plan for your partner organisations,
and for your own organisation if small and / or diaspora-led (for Comic Relief definitions see guidance notes). If
you’re applying for funds to develop the capacity of more than one partner, you’ll need to complete a form for
each of them.
Where applicable please restrict your answer to the word limit stated. Where a choice of answer is provided
please choose one from the list.
Organisation Name
The name of the organisation that this plan is for
Role in this proposal
Applicant or partner
Proposal ID
Proposal title
MOTIVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
How have you sought to better understand capacity gaps and needs? (100 words)
What Organisational capacity assessment tools were used? What process did you go through to identify capacity gaps and needs?
What areas of capacity need have you identified and why have these been prioritised? (100 words)
What were the findings of your organisational capacity assessment? What gaps were identified and how have the gaps been
prioritised?
Who was involved in undertaking the organisational assessment and prioritising needs? (100 words)
Who within the organisation (both your organisation and your partners’) was involved? If external support was provided, please give
details.
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DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Please outline your development plan. (150 words)
Summarise your development plan and how it relates to the gaps and needs identified.
How will you implement your development plan? (150 words)
What activities will be undertaken? How will they be sequenced? How will you ensure that there is enough capacity within the
organisation to implement the plan?
Who will be involved in delivering the development work? (150 words)
Who will lead the process? What skills and experience do they have? Who else will be involved? How with the governing body be
involved in the planning and implementing of the plan?
EMBEDDING LEARNING
What will be the result of your development work? (100 words)
Provide up to five changes in your organisational performance that you expect to see as a result of this work.
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How will you ensure that learning from this process is institutionalised? (100 words)
What measures will you take to ensure that this work is embedded within the organisation?
How will this work change the way you operate and how will this enable you to be more effective? (100
words)
How will this work support achieving your vision and mission and achieving long term sustainability?
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