ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) & THE FUTURE OF WORK FOR NGOS & DEVELOPMENT SECTOR (Cohort 2)

• Current Landscape: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly redefining how knowledge of work is performed across sectors.
• Opportunity: For non-governmental organizations (NGOs), this transformation presents a timely opportunity to increase staff productivity, reduce administrative burden, improve learning and decision-making, and accelerate program impact—while maintaining strong ethical, governance, and accountability standards.
• The Challenge: Despite growing interest, many NGOs struggle to move beyond awareness toward practical, day-to-day application of AI tools within program delivery, monitoring, fundraising, communications, and operations.
• Root Causes: These gaps are often driven by limited hands-on exposure, skills constraints, and uncertainty around responsible adoption.
• Solution: The “AI & the Future of Work in the NGO Sector” program is designed as a practical, practitioner-focused learning intensive that equips NGO professionals with the knowledge, tools, and applied skills required to integrate AI meaningfully into their work.

Program Overview

• Structure: This initiative is a one-week intensive capacity-building programme, delivered five days (Monday-Friday), with two-hour live sessions per day.
• Methodology: The programme combines expert facilitation, live demonstrations, applied use cases, and interactive discussions, with a strong emphasis on immediate workplace relevance.
• Facilitation: Sessions will be co-facilitated by experienced AI practitioners and development sector experts, creating a collaborative learning environment grounded in real NGO contexts.
• Theme: From Tools to Transformation: Reimagining NGO Work in the Age of AI.

Session Themes 

•  Generative AI & the Future of Work in NGOs: How generative AI is reshaping NGO roles, workflows, and productivity across programs, leadership, and operations.
• Prompt Engineering for NGO Productivity & Reporting: Practical techniques for using prompts to support reporting, proposal writing, donor communications, presentations, and internal documentation.
• Agentic AI & AI Agents for Program & Operations Teams: How generative AI is reshaping NGO roles, workflows, and productivity across programs, leadership, and operations.
•  AI Automation for Fundraising, Communications & Grant Writing: How generative AI is reshaping NGO roles, workflows, and productivity across programs, leadership, and operations.
• AI for Monitoring, MEL, Research & Data Teams: How generative AI is reshaping NGO roles, workflows, and productivity across programs, leadership, and operations.
• AI Ethics, Governance & Responsible AI in the NGO Sector: How generative AI is reshaping NGO roles, workflows, and productivity across programs, leadership, and operations.

Target Audience & Participation

• NGO leadership and management teams
• Programme and technical staff
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL/MEL) professionals
• Fundraising, communications, and business development teams
• Operations, research, and data professionals
• Academic and development practitioners supporting NGOs

Participation Fee