C. HUB CENTER ACTIVITY OVERVIEW 

Regional Overview 

Training Activities  

The major training event in this quarter was a regional follow up training workshop in Developing 

Community Networks. Tom Kiernan, Program Manager for the Rural Community Network and 

Sonya Murray, Director for the Triskele Community Training and Development presented the 

Northern Ireland experience and approaches in the area of developing networks. The training activity 

aimed at enhancing participants' knowledge, skills and understanding of network development and 

introducing the concept of `social capital'. Participants were exposed to a number of effective 

community networks operating in Northern Ireland and established for economic and social 

development.  

Training participants included Community Outreach Program Coordinators, representatives of 

Support Centers and communities involved in developing community networks. In the course of the 

training participants were introduced to a wider range of strategies for initiating and developing 

community networks. The participants exchanged their experiences of developing community 

networks in the context of Central Asia and concluded by drafting Action Plans. Those Action Plans 

indicated how the participants would adapt and implement mechanisms and tools for maintaining 

effective networks in their countries.  

During this quarter the regional office began developing a new Training Plan for 2003 2004. All Hub 

and Support Centers were involved in preparing requests for supplementary funding through the 

AED START Program to support additional trainings. The Regional Office provided assistance in the 

design of Training Activity Request Forms in accordance with the regional and country specific 

program priorities. Altogether 36 TARFs were submitted from Counterpart to USAID and AED for 

consideration.  

Organizational Development 

During the quarter, Counterpart continued to focus on strengthening the capacity of the Hub centers. 

In June, a training workshop in Leadership and Management was conducted by the Russian agency 

Leader. Country Directors, Program Managers and Financial Managers from all five country offices 

and Regional Program Coordinators participated in this training which covered: 

Efficient management and its importance for the organizational effectiveness; 

Similarities and differences between the concepts of leadership and management; 

Key roles and functions of manager in an organization; 

The concept of corporate culture; 

Leadership and management skills; 

The concepts and differences between strategic and operational management; 

The concept of managerial technologies; 

Types of management decisions and the differences among decision making technologies; and  

Personnel recruitment and hiring systems.  

Using information from the Country Directors meeting, the Regional office developed a draft set of 

criteria and indicators to assess CSSC performance. The purpose of the assessment is to identify 

partners for the new CSSI program of Counterpart. The proposed time horizon for gathering 

information is for the period of January 2001 June 2003. This will enable us to fully utilize our 

existing MIS/database and will be also helpful for defining further dynamics of organizational 

performance.  The performance indicators and criteria will be used for future periodic assessments 

and subsequent capacity development plans. All these components will form a Performance based 

Organizational Capacity Development approach, the main theme of CSSI program. 

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