Training
We have partnered with INTRAC to provide Bond members with a range of training and learning opportunities.
We are working together to provide high-quality training and thought leadership to INGOs in their practice, supporting them and strengthening longer-term change within the sector.
Through the partnership, Bond members receive a 10% discount on all INTRAC courses. Go to the course page, complete the short application form and the INTRAC team will apply the discount.
INTRAC also design tailor-made in-house training to suit the needs of organisations. Through their global partnerships, INTRAC is diversifying their training content, trainers pool and offer for the future.
Upcoming courses
*NEW* Coaching Skills – fostering sustainable partnerships – online – September to October 2025
This course, rooted in INTRAC’s commitment to equity and sustainability, equips its participants with essential coaching skills to navigate this transformation. Go beyond traditional support and unlock the potential for truly impactful, locally-driven development. Discover how coaching can build stronger relationships, empower partners, and drive lasting change – both within your organisation and in the communities you serve.
Book nowDecolonising Safeguarding – online – September to November 2025
his course takes you on a journey of reviewing your organisation’s (or a client’s) safeguarding policy and developing an action plan to further decolonise the safeguarding policy and procedures so that they are appropriate to your context, meaningful and truly working for your partners and communities.
Book nowAdvocacy Strategy And Influencing Skills – online – September to November 2025
This online course introduces participants to the core skills needed to influence powerful stakeholders and policy processes in a range of contexts. It also gives participants a thorough understanding of how to develop and monitor effective advocacy strategies.
Book nowMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning – online – September to November 2025
Do you need to build effective monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) into project and programme work for both accountability and learning? This course will strengthen your skills in supporting the monitoring and evaluation objectives of your organisation, from programme design through to evaluation and impact assessment.
Book nowPartner Capacity Strengthening – online – October to November 2025
Are you involved in capacity strengthening or organisational development work with local partners, and finding things aren’t going as you imagined they would? Maybe you’re grappling with how to provide remote capacity strengthening support?
If these are the sorts of challenges that you’re facing, then INTRAC’s Partner Capacity Strengthening online course is designed to help.
Book nowMonitoring Evaluation and Learning Systems Advanced – online – October to November 2025
INTRAC’s online course on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Systems aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to be able to develop an effective MEL system for your programme or organisation. The course explores the core components of effective M&E systems and how these differ for complex programmes and organisations.
Book nowTheory of Change – promoting locally-led change – online – November to December 2025
This training will provide the opportunity to learn about and gain confidence in the processes for developing a ToC. It is a practical course using a step-by-step approach and proven techniques for generating and exploring change options, developing robust and evidenced pathways for change, testing assumptions and integrating the ToC into MEL plans.
Book nowOther learning opportunities
We have ample other opportunities for members to learn, evolve, and improve how their organisations work and how the sector works together.
We provide everything from webinars to working groups, roundtables to resources, learning cohorts and recommended suppliers. There are so many ways to learn with us – get involved.
Events
We host regular events, both online and in-person, bringing together influential thinkers, NGOs, donors and policy-makers for lively debates and networking.
Our events are a chance to interrogate the latest challenges in the sector and get new ideas to drive positive change.
Find out moreWorking groups
Did you know that Bond has over 40 working groups with more than 3,000 members, each focusing on key thematic areas in the development and humanitarian sector?
Join these communities of practice and learning to discuss challenges, engage in joint advocacy, share and learn from other organisations and network with fellow development professionals.
Join a working groupLearning cohorts
Bond hosts learning cohorts to support our members over longer periods of time on their learning journeys on specific topics. Recent cohorts include:
Resources
Bond has a resource hub full of the most useful tools, reports, books, how-to-guides, videos, briefings, presentations and websites for people working in international development. Check out some recent resources below and visit the resource hub for many more.
- Safeguarding tool
- Anti-racism and decolonising toolkit
- Becoming locally led as an anti-racist practice: a guide
Bond Directory
All our previous trainers can be found on Bond’s Supplier Directory, which pulls together some of the best consultants, trainers, legal experts, travel agents and higher education providers in international development and humanitarian assistance.
Bond has made all of its current course content available to our associate trainers, who may be available to provide you with the training appropriate to your organisation’s needs – so make the Bond Directory your go-to place to find expert trainers in the sector!
Find a supplierNews and views
Learn from Bond experts, members and thought-leaders from civil society by keeping up to date with our news and views page.
Each week, we share the latest insights and trends across a range of topics, from UK aid to politics, funding to communications and anti-racism in the sector.
Read nowIf you have any questions about training and learning, please contact Mike Wright, Bond’s Director of Communications and Membership, on [email protected]
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