The MSI Center for Governmental Integrity is recognized for its innovative work in combating corruption. MSI's Center has developed several tools to promote anti-corruption reforms including Diagnostic Assessments, Public-Private Partnerships, a Local Government Training Package, Sector-by-Sector Strategies, Anti-Corruption Indicators for Performance Measurement, and Citizen Advocate Offices for legal protection of corruption victims.
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Through the USAID-funded AIMS program, MSI developed a series of tools for analysis of worldwide microenterprise programs. These tools measure the impact, as well as the process, of microenterprise services provided by USAID and its partners.
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MSI offers an intensive course in project and program evaluation that is aimed at building the basic skills and knowledge needed by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local government officials, and foreign assistance program managers whose responsibilities include the monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness and impact of the activities and projects they finance. Practical experience provided by the course also makes it ideal for individuals seeking to establish themselves as independent, professional program evaluators.
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MSI has established a worldwide reputation in entrepreneurship training with the development of three related training programs.
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Strategic Management Tools to Support HIV/AIDS Policy Change. MSI’s HIV/AIDS Toolkit is based on 10 years of experience managing USAID's Implementing Policy Change Project and other USAID-funded policy change efforts in the health, population and AIDS.
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MSI's Implementing Policy Change toolkit was developed through an 11-year USAID endeavor to improve policy implmentation and democratic governance around the world. MSI has provided hands-on technical assistance, training, process consulting and facilitation in more than 40 countries, conducted applied research on policy reform and implementation issues, and developed and tested tools for policy planning implementation across a range of topics and environments.
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Diamond policy reform in Sierra Leone originated as part of the United States Government’s support to the Lome Peace Accord in 1999. Building on the policy initiatives that emerged from USAID/OTI’s assistance, the Diamond Policy and Management (DIPAM) project, implemented by MSI, created a platform for deeper and more sustainable policy reform in the diamond sector. MSI also implemented the field-oriented Peace Diamond Alliance Support Project (PDA), which provided both a grass-roots source of vital policy input and a laboratory for policy implementation initiatives.
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An Integrated Toolkit for Non-Profit Organizations. Well recognized for our work in Institutional Development, MSI offers the Institutional Development Toolkit as a resource and diagnostic tool for organizations seeking to improve their management and institutional capacity.
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Over twenty years ago, MSI pioneered the use of logical framework training. Logframe training remains a critical tool for identifying the key elements of project design. Today, MSI continues to meet the demand for delivery of state of the art programs and workshops in the use of logical framework.
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The two-week PDM course design is based on the long-term view of how the course fits State/USAID/USG needs, during and beyond the Foreign Assistance Reforms. The training is for all USAID staff who are directly involved in project management, and those from other USG agencies who will be working on USG foreign assistance teams, and may wish to develop project design and management skills and learn more about how USAID plans and manages development projects.
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The MSI Scaling-Up Management (SUM) Framework was developed with financial support from the MacArthur Foundation as a guide for foundations, official donors and NGOs. Organized around 10 concrete Tasks, the framework includes practical advice, management tools, and a step-by-step guide for developing a scaling-up plan, obtaining the needed resources, and implementing the scaling-up process.
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MSI’s extensive experience in management and strategic planning is brought to bear in its application of Strategic Workforce planning.
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MSI’s gender-training program prepares Women in Development (WID) Fellows to provide gender expertise in the design, implementation and evaluation of activities in USAID-assisted countries, and to identify and develop innovative approaches, within USAID’s goal areas and the Fellows’ areas of technical expertise, to the constraints faced by women in developing countries.
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MSI’s YRTEP Program targets ex-combatants and other war-affected youth to provide non-formal education activities in reintegration, livelihood skills development, remedial education and basic literacy and numeracy skills as appropriate.
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