Consolidated model
Strategies of institutional development tested by the Mission in Focus program define lines of action with potential for gaining scale in other programs
The Mission in Focus program invests in civil society organizations that contribute to the overall development of children and adolescents and to the places where they operate. Civil society organizations (CSOs) that have already participated with good results in other initiatives by Itaú Social are invited to this program. The aim is to leverage the work of the organization that already operates with excellence, possesses relevance in the territory, and commitment to the children and adolescents. The Mission in Focus program grants autonomy and flexibility to apply the resources to trainings for the teams, as well as to communication, planning, innovation, monitoring of results and institutional sustainability. Besides contributing to a more inner look at management and operational questions, the program understands the importance of strengthening the outer dimension, that is, the social value that the civil society organization produces for the community. More developed institutionally, the organizations activate local networks, overflowing their activity in the territory in which they are inserted. The first group of organizations supported, with 15 participants, began in 2017, and the second, with 13, in 2019.
Amid the challenges of 2020, the organizations supported by Mission in Focus, located in 25 cities in different regions of the country, gave signs of institutional maturing – and of the consolidation of the program’s strategies. Acting autonomously in relation to Itaú Social, the CSOs spontaneously developed a network which, with virtual meetings, has allowed for exchanges of experiences and cooperation during the pandemic. The Mission in Focus model has proved to be efficient for delving into strategies experienced by the institutions, learning with them and systematizing the learning to take it to networks and programs where it can be multiplied on a much larger scale. This year the maturing brought a lot to share with the third group of organizations participating in Mission in Focus, which enter the program in 2021.
Dialogues of Institutional Development
FERTILE SOIL
The learning received from the Mission in Focus training overflows from the program itself and fertilizes other experiences. In 2020, Itaú Social carried out the pilot project for Dialogues of Institutional Development of Civil Society Organizations, with mediated training for 59 institutions, benefiting 90,384 children, adolescents and youths, in 52 municipalities. As an opportunity for each organization to deepen the discussion about its own mission and the challenges to fulfill it, the dialogues had a growing attendance rate by the institutions’ teams, with the participation of 372 people in the training activities. Some of them began participating with only a few representatives and ended the year registering the presence of dozens of their staff in the monthly meetings. Perceived by many as an important study group for strengthening organizations, especially in this year of pandemic, the dialogues were conducted by Itaú Social with consulting support and allowed it to lend greater scale to the experience acquired in the program that inspired them.
In numbers
institutions supported
municipalities
children, adolescents and young people benefited
participants in training actions
invested
