This domain includes both human resource and financial systems strengthening.

Systems are the backbones of institutions that provide ways by which individuals perform and achieve beyond their individual capacities.  Systems set up methods and processes that define the way activities are performed. Systems are the delivery mechanisms – that keep institutions alive. Systems are also non-hierarchical in that they apply to all and discourage discriminate ways of functioning. Systemic orientation occurs when individuals begin to see the interconnected parts of an organisation. Systems strengthening focuses on financial management and human resource management and its role in institution building.

A. Human Resource Systems Strengthening

Human resource development aims at development of individuals through skills and competencies. Human resource management goes beyond into linking individual and team growth to larger organisational objectives and needs stemming from those. HR then gets into systemic ways of thinking and organizing that brings the best in individual actors and teams.

B. Financial Systems Strengthening

Strengthening financial systems is about enhancing institutional sustainability and its credibility with the external world. Interventions in this area address issues such as security, transparency, accountability, sustainability, cost effectiveness and delegation and conflict of interests. All this is aimed at improving standards of governance in the development sector.