Keystone Accountability Report
Partner Survey 2010
As part of our commitment to transparency and accountability to those we work with Practical Action was very pleased to have an opportunity to take part in a large scale survey of local NGO opinion of international NGO performance.
The survey was carried out by the organisation Keystone Accountability on behalf of 25 international NGOs from the UK and US. The survey was in the form of a questionnaire administered by e-mail asking for the partners’ view of our performance against a range of criteria including financial support, capacity building support, other non-financial support, administration, relationships, and understanding and learning. We submitted 101 local NGO partner names and 33 responded, anonymously, to Keystone (an about average response rate for all of the 25 international NGOs concerned).
The report prepared for us benched marked us against the 24 other northern INGOs, placing us in the top performing half of this group in terms of scores, with particular strengths in capacity building, the use of participatory approaches, technical issues and support on board and governance issues. We are rated relatively low on involving our partners in the development of our strategy and promoting our partners in the media.
We are taking the opportunity of developing our next organisational strategy (2012 to 2017) to improve on the former. Please click on the link below if you are interested in reading the report in more detail.
