Summary
UK network for NGOs working in international development. Aggregates toolkits, briefings, guides and reports produced by its ~400 member organisations and the Bond team — covering governance, MEL, coalition building, advocacy, and organisational development. Most useful as a pointer hub (link to member-organisation guides) rather than a primary craft source.
Body
Bond is the membership body for UK charities and civil-society organisations working in international development. Its resources section aggregates practical publications from member organisations and from Bond’s own policy and programmes teams. The recurring themes are governance and accountability, monitoring-evaluation-learning (MEL), coalition building, advocacy strategy, and organisational development for INGOs. [source: bond-uk-ngo-network]
The aggregation pattern matters: a campaigner looking for an MEL framework will find multiple competing frameworks cited side-by-side, each linked back to the publishing member. For coalition work, Bond publishes guides on network governance, joint advocacy, and shared accountability that are written for the INGO context but transfer well to national-level coalitions. [source: bond-uk-ngo-network]
The site also hosts news and policy positions on UK development-policy debates (FCDO funding, climate finance, humanitarian access). Useful for situational awareness but those are time-bound and should be cited with a date. [source: bond-uk-ngo-network]
Use it for
- Finding frameworks and guides from across the UK INGO sector in one place.
- Sourcing member-organisation publications (Oxfam, Save the Children, ActionAid, Christian Aid, etc.) without visiting each site.
- Coalition-governance and joint-advocacy references for INGO networks.
Related
- affinity-groups
- campaigns-vs-movements
- citizen-lobbying
- civil-resistance
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- framing-and-narrative
- incidencia-politica
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- pillars-of-support
- power-mapping
- public-narrative
- spectrum-of-allies
- the-campaign-cycle
- the-tactic-star
- theory-of-change
- three-and-a-half-percent-rule
Open Questions
- Does Bond’s “open access” subset exist? (Many guides are gated to members — confirm before linking.)