Institutional Development of Civil Society Organisations
 
Summary of major assignments
 
Operating Design
The operating design of Four X 4 Consulting Pvt. Ltd is geared towards providing a multiple set of services to private, government or international donor agencies, intermediary CSOs, grassroots and federations and groups of people to qualitatively improve the lives of poor, marginalized, and excluded. These services or products include management and consulting support services for people's organizations for ensuring good governance through institutional development or people’s capacity building, facilitation/provision of micro-finance, IT enabled products like database creation and management, development of user-friendly websites.....

Because of a host of reasons Civil Society Organisations are not always well equipped to with a whole range of ideas, approaches and capacity for carrying out development interventions successfully. At one end of the spectrum they feel the need for purely technical input - the provision of training to its staff or setting up new financial or computer system, etc.  Further along the spectrum is organizational capacity building for which they often need support in their own progress and development. This organizational development not only focuses on the organization's systems and physical assets, but on its people, its culture and its ability to plan for the future.

In this direction FourX4 has been a resource agency for the first phase of the Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) programme which was a collaborative programme of Department for International Development (DFID), Government of United Kingdom and Development Alternatives (DA), a leading national level development agency in India.

FourX4 provided its technical support and inputs in the following areas to PACS:

Capacity building of staff and partner Civil Society Organizations of PACS in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (U.P.)
Functioned as a Core team in the Programme implementation and consolidation of tasks
Regular capacity building of CSOs in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Benchmarking of programmatic services to measure change- creation of database
Programmatic direction and intensify reach
Facilitate networking and collaborative partnership
Assist in developing strategies for promoting convergence and enhance realization of entitlements for the poor
Financial and programme progress monitoring and reporting
Organize cluster level and state level workshops, seminars and technical sessions
Prepare National Synthesis (programme) Report
Facilitate various workshops and conferences
Write a Book on Impact of PACS Phase-I