SAS+ Learning Hub

The Stopping As Success Learning Hub highlights external resources from organizations across the development and humanitarian sectors that share good practice and helpful lessons to inform ongoing transition processes or strategy development. The Hub includes transition strategies, detailed roadmaps, stories of post-transition transformation, and other initiatives and databases that relate to transitions.

Organizational transition strategies

• • Responsible Transitions to Local Ownership: Reflections from the 3D Program for Girls and Women by Sia Nowrojee
  • In the face of COVID-19, a new direction for Oxfam by Chema Vera
  • Navigating Change: HelpAge Tanzania’s Journey to Localisation by HelpAge
  • How One INGO is Responding for Calls to #ShiftThePower by Bert Maerten
  • Celebrating 10 Years of Family For Every Child by Family For Every Child

Transition roadmaps

• • The Future of WeRobotics: We’re just getting started by WeRobotics
  • Guide for Developing Sustainability and Transition Plans by USAID ASSIST Project
  • Exiting / transitioning from international partnerships: a toolkit for small NGOs by INTRAC
  • Endings as the overlooked stage of transformation by Louise Armstrong
  • From Operations to Outcomes: A Policy Blueprint for Locally-Led Development by Humentum
  • Road Mapping: Towards Self-Reliance by ChildFund New Zealand
  • A Roadmap Toward Locally Led Development by Intrahealth
  • Endings: the neglected chapter of organisational life cycles by Iona Lawrence
  • Community-led development of a concurrent exit strategy by Sindhanai

Inspiring initiatives

• • Re-Imagining the INGO (RINGO)
  • The Movement for Community-Led Development’s (MCLD) Participatory Community-Led Development Assessment Tool
  • Chronicles of A Transformative Movement: Strengthening Our Interconnectedness by Gunjan Veda, MA, MPA (MCLD)
  • No Exit, Without an Entry Strategy: Transitioning UNMISS SSR Activities by Dr Jaïr van der Lijn, SIPRI
  • Development interdependence: Locally driven, globally informed
  • From Consensus to Change: Reclaiming Southern Agency in International Research by Andrea Ordoñez
  • Did you notice? The Global South has just shifted the power by Lauchlan T. Munro & Syed Sajjadur Rahman
  • The politics of working better together by Humanitarian Policy Group and the Neem Foundation

Post-transition transformation

• • Shaping a post-colonial INGO article by Anu Kumar
  • Nuru Kenya: Five Years After Expatriate Team Exit by Pauline Wambeti
  • The enriching, enabling, liberating experience of embracing change: How Transform Trade has navigated the journey towards becoming a locally led organization
  • Why as an international NGO, we worked ourselves out of a job by Amanda Griffith
  • Country-led Operations at Pathfinder: Localization is Working for Us by Nino Willsea

Related databases

• • Resources on how to communicate social change by Jennifer Lentfer
  • Decolonizing Aid: A resource and reading list by The New Humanitarian