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Capacity Development

Training, coaching and institutional strengthening for programme and government teams.

Capacity development strengthens an organisation's ability to carry out functions it already owns - monitoring its own programmes, managing its own data, or applying a method consistently across teams.

CGS works with programme staff, government departments and partner organisations. Content is built around the systems and responsibilities already in place rather than delivered as a standard curriculum.

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NGO Capacity Assessment & Development

More than 100 NGOs assessed or supported across six programmes. Assessment only, or assessment and development.

NGO capacity assessment

What it includes

  • Capacity assessment and training needs analysis
  • Curriculum and materials development
  • Workshop facilitation and coaching
  • Tools, templates and guidance notes
  • Follow-up support during application

Our approach

Training is designed against the tasks participants actually perform, and uses the organisation's own documents and data where possible. Sessions are practical rather than lecture-based.

Where the objective is a lasting change in practice, follow-up is built into the schedule, since a single workshop rarely changes how work is done.

Clients served

Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), CairoGIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit)Embassy of France - Ministry of Foreign AffairsLife Makers Foundation EgyptPeople Power InclusionSave the Children International (SCI)Seas For Environment and Training

Selected assignments

Current

Monitoring and Evaluation of Decent Employment and Mobility Opportunities for Egyptians (DEMO)

August 2026 - September 2028

CGS provides the monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning service for DEMO, which works to increase employability and labour mobility for Egyptians in Egypt and Italy through an Italian Egyptian centre for decent employment and mobility. The service covers a MEAL framework built with the PMU and the implementing partners, an open source management information system, partner training and six monthly reporting to September 2028.

Training & Coaching Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia
Current

CSOs Capacity Strengthening Programme

September 2025 - October 2026

Institutional assessment and capacity strengthening for nine civil society organisations supported by the FEF-OSC Programme, using the NGO Performance Index to identify capacity gaps and compliance risks.

Institutional AssessmentTraining & Coaching Egypt
Current

Equal Opportunities for Social Development Project (EOSD)

May 2024 - April 2026

Steering the entire monitoring and evaluation portfolio for a nationwide programme channelling grants to almost 80 NGOs and CSOs, and advising the Civil Society Support Fund on its strategy and M&E system.

Training & Coaching Nationwide, Egypt

NGO Capacity Assessment and Institutional Strengthening

April 2026 - June 2026

Life Makers Foundation commissioned CGS to assess and strengthen the institutional capacity of five partner associations under the Sponsorship Project. The work covers a nine-domain diagnostic, tailored roadmaps, 40 training days and 90 hours of coaching.

Needs AssessmentInstitutional AssessmentTraining & Coaching Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia and 2 more

Financial Inclusion Consultancy for the YEEP Project

February 2025 - December 2025

Coaching around 50 entrepreneurs and implementing partners in Assiut to secure funds and refine their business models and financial plans.

Training & Coaching Assiut Governorate

Technical, Financial and Institutional Training Programmes for 10 CSOs

September 2024 - March 2025

Closing competency gaps in governance, finance, HR, supply chain, project development and MEAL for ten civil society organisations through inclusive curricula and personalised coaching.

Institutional AssessmentTraining & Coaching Three governorates, Egypt

Nawara Project Baseline and GBV Capacity Building

November 2023 - February 2024

A baseline study on violence against women paired with a training toolkit, TOT sessions and continuous coaching strengthening survivor-support mechanisms and community advocacy.

Baseline StudyTraining & Coaching Al-Qusair and Ras Ghareb, Red Sea

Other services

Monitoring & EvaluationResearch & AssessmentsData Collection & ManagementProgramme Design & SupportPlanning & Event Management

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