SUMMARY

Introduction

The Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches of West Africa (FECCIWA) is a regional organization of 13 country members including Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. The Association aims at improving the dynamics of its network both internally and externally. After implementing three food security projects under the campaign banner "produce what you eat, eat what you produce", FECCIWA has agreed with its main partners (MPC) to undertake an organizational assessment to establish a state of affairs in relation to the organization's vision and mission statement to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the FECCIWA. This is in order to deeply transpose FECCIWA as a development institution through a sound and results-based management system. With this in mind and to ensure that the vision of the organization is in the members and supporters and partners, FECCIWA wishes to undertake an urgent review of its activities to ensure that they achieve the objectives as their members and partners. It would also reposition the Association’s response to the needs of the members and the population that it wants to serve the organization of the 21st century.

 Context
According to the Constitution of FECCIWA, the General Assembly elects the Executive Committee every three years to manage the affairs of the Institution. In this regard, a new team was elected in February 2017 and took office in April 2017. In addition, a new strategic plan was adopted by the General Assembly. Despite these provisions, FECCIWA is in a situation where its activities are not visible to members in the field and is also struggling with effective management of its development programs. The issue of good management is important because it is at the heart of the institution dynamic and it works well. Effective management of the FECCIWA’s network; easy access to information about the fellowship's activities, compliance with the constitution and the manual of procedures, as well as respect for its purpose and objectives, as outlined in its strategic plan, are essential to successful organization. It is also important that the goals and objectives of the association are replicated in the programs that engage in the communities. In addition, an appropriate mechanism to monitor and manage results of its activities must be put in place. As difficult as it may be, it is useful and necessary to ensure the success of any activity and therefore to the life and survival of the institution itself

1. Objective

Main objective

Conduct an institutional and organizational audit

Specific objectives

• Analyse and understand the current organization of FECCIWA (roles, responsibilities and missions of each staff member and members of the executive committee);
• Analyse the representation of the organization through the participation and involvement of Christian councils and churches in the various campaigns;
• Appreciate the tools put in place by FECCIWA;
• Meet and talk with key stakeholders in the organization to identify difficulties encountered;
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the organization as well as the opportunities of the institution and the environment;
• Suggest ways of improvement to optimize the functioning of FECCIWA (better visibility, increased relations with partnerships, improvement of living and working conditions of staff, improvement of the quality of relations with Christian councils and churches and partner NGOs, better resource mobilization, improvement of the project implementation and management framework, establishment of monitoring and evaluation mechanism).

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