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SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a specific project, organisation or even a whole sector. This analysis leads to a richer understanding of what the project or organisation can offer, the key weaknesses that need to be worked upon in order to succeed, and where to bring in external partners for assistance.
Completing a SWOT analysis involves identifying and mapping the internal and external factors that are assisting or hindering you in achieving your goal. The SWOT analysis provides a good framework for reviewing current strategies and directions, or even to test an idea while exploring solutions. It is particularly helpful to do a SWOT Analysis before the start of a project.
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Natalya
User Rating: 5
This version of SWOT analysis guide looks useful and tuned to the social innovation context. I take a note on, e.g. questions on technology, the lowest-cost resources. Haven’t yet had a chance to use the tool, but plan to. Thanks
Rinko
UNICEF
User Rating: 4
This is the tool we normally use for strategic planning in our office, but recently I used it with different audience- university students. They wrote down SWOT on colored mini-cards (different color assigned for each of the 4 components) and then worked in groups. Each group then presented their findings, and other groups commented if they had different views or additional points. Threats and Weakness parts were further analyzed by students and this was useful for them to identify most critical problems that they are facing or will be facing.
The other way that we used SWOT is modifying this a bit to further guide our strategic planning. instead of analyzing SWOT, we analyzed “where should we play, and how?” in order to win xxxxx. – We used this for planning of resource mobilization strategies and it was quite helpful in translating SWOT into something concrete as a strategy.
Diana Rae Lewis
Chicuchas Wasi nonprofit
User Rating: 5
Our 27 yr. old nonprofit is currently working with 9 of our members, that includes both board and junior board members, to take a hard look at our nonprofit overall using SWAT among other studies to prepare a fresh strategic business plan for 2015. Our junior board is composed mostly of university students and the regular board of 7 professionals (five of whom have been on our board 27 years) and we could not have brought together a better mix to take a good look at our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Their fresh new eyes have brought important insight to this planning stage and the way we speak of our nonprofit. We are now moving toward a succession plan for the future with this new input from our young fresh members. This process is truly valuable.
Lauren
User Rating: 5
This is perfect for board meetings in order to focus EOY conversations to improve programming for the upcoming year. Thank you
Daniel Marungu
TIBA AFRICA FOUNDATION
User Rating: 4
I NEED TO REDO IT TO GAIN DEEPER. IT’S INTERESTING , FEAR APPEAR AS BOTH STRENGTH AND THREAT ?WHAT DOES THIS ONE MEAN.I MUST RE-LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
THANKS YOU
Shaili Zappa
WINGS Guatemala
User Rating: 5
I did my SWOT Analysis to analyse my nonprofit’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. I found that one of the major external threats to my organization is the conservative nature of Guatemala; it is hard to talk about sex and reproductive health when both are such taboo topics. I also found that in terms of weaknesses, we lack presence in Guatemala City, which is basically where all the major money is. We could definitely find ways to make WINGS more well-known in “the City”, that way we can look forward to larger donations at a local level. In terms of our strengths, our organization is very much one-of-a-kind in Guatemala. We do rural outreach through our mobile clinics; we go to the farthest, most remote, difficult to get to areas. We provide both short-acting and long-acting reversible contraception, as well as vasectomies and tubal ligations. We charge the lowest and affordable prices (a few dollars), and if the person cannot afford this, WINGS covers the services, free of cost for the patient. We are extremely organized; we constantly do monitoring so we can make sure to track our progress and what needs room for improvement. We have various programs that focus on indigenous women and on youth, and the reproductive health talks we have are given in the Mayan language of each community, so we can guarantee better comprehension. One of our biggest opportunities is to engage with nonprofits who are focusing on different topics. By merging our strengths, we can provide a wider array of services to Guatemalan communities in need.
Adaobi Onyejike-Ananaba
Girl Child Art Foundation
User Rating: 5
This approach to SWOT analysis simplifies the tool, making it easier to apply in our various projects. It will help us critical analyze our work and impact level. I will recommend this to our partners and colleagues. Thank you so much.
Admire Kamonere
Thabang Children's Project
User Rating: 5
Nice and to the point video. Looking forward to using the guide
Hellen R. Apio
Mothers and Children Support International
User Rating: 4
Listening to SWOT help me to understand my weakness, strength, opportunities, and target in order to succeed. I particularly appreciate how SWOT challenged me to understand what is holding me back, help me to embrace the internal and external threat and work at what my organization need to succeed. We have struggled therefore, SWOT is a wonderful tool of training and encouragement to pursue the purpose of the organization. Thank you.
Denice Ryan
Ambergris Caye Elementary School
User Rating: 4
I am using SWOT to help develop a self assessment for our team of teachers. By having each teacher do a personal SWOT analysis based on their own observations of both personal and organizational strengths and weaknesses we will better understand the opportunities and the barriers we face as an organization. Additionally, this will help each team member evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses and develop an action plan with strategies as to how they personally can improve. Collectively we will then all develop an action plan for the school with input from all members of the team’s input.
Stephanie
User Rating: 4
Found this refresher in it useful. The SWOT analysis is clear and quick way to prioritize your goals while keeping in mind what you have available
vani purohit
RAPID
User Rating: 1
This tool really help us fair thinking and analysing our work. Not just once but periodically we need to do swot for improving in understanding from all perspective.
Thank you for introducing me.
Shweta Chari
Toybank
User Rating: 5
It was an excellent exercise and an eye opener.
Riene Tagupa
Children's Joy Foundation, Inc.
User Rating: 4
Yes SWOT is an important tool that has been used by planners in planning especially for long term plan. It is very important that we are aware of our environment to consider our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that will affect the implementation of a plan and the attainment of our goals in general.
Angelia Lane
Ya'axche Conservation Trust
User Rating: 5
I use the SWOT analysis tool in many aspects of my work, but one unique way is using it with local indigenous farmers in Belize. Instead of having the grid, we’ve designed a tree, where different aspects of the tree represent the 4 different components of the SWOT analysis. This makes a more complex tool easier for farmers to relate to and understand.
Aditi Kishore
Aarohi
User Rating: 4
Got me thinking. Strengths and weakness difficult to analyse.
Anastasiya
13229
User Rating: 5
It is always a good but may be sad experience to do the SWOT analysis and to see where your organization is. thank you for providing this opportunity again and again!
Madeline Townsend
Conservation Volunteers Australia
User Rating: 5
Very useful explanation and tools, thank you
MASTORA Bakhiet
Darfur Women Network,INC.
User Rating: 5
The weakness and threat are clear to be determined,but to resolve them is challenging. However, the most important is that how can I keep the strength and grape the opportunity?
anuja
colblog
User Rating: 3
Excellent article. SWOT analysis is necessary to the every organization. Through this we can identify the strengths,weakness, opportunities and threats to a organization as well as a humans when we did this analysis.
http://www.colblog.com/team-building-activities-for-employees-at-work/
Elaine McLevie
Episcopal Refugee Network of San Diego
User Rating: 4
We have used the SWOT for the past 4 years at our Board retreats to find out where our changes of direction need to be. We also used it to look at a program that women in our refugee groups came together to ask us to begin for them. A group of 20 women met with me to explain that the ESL classes that were provided for them by the County had two major drawbacks. 1. The emphasis was all on spoken English and they had no practice in reading and writing. 2. The majority of the students were Spanish speakers, and there was no assistance provided for speakers of other languages. In fact 5 of them reported that when they asked a question in English, it was usually answered in Spanish, which did not help. They asked for specific classes like the ones we provide for refugee children, for them. We explored with them, when such a class could be arranged to accommodate as many of them as possible and they agreed that Saturday mornings would be ideal.
An actual Saturday was chosen for the class to begin, but many called in to say their work schedules had been changed and they could not come. After much consultation with the original group, and with the outreach workers who were trying hard to meet a critical need so that the ladies could become more employable, we made an exploratory beginning with one student at a time. We had hoped to train three of the original group, to use one of the effective computer courses for children,using lap tops at our office. Then we hoped they would go out and spread the word about what they were learning, and how much fun it was. But each had a very specific reason for learning English. What they really wanted was to practice and learn with someone whose first language was English and at the same time either work together with the instructor, to get ready to pass the citizenship test, or to get ready to work in a particular setting. That meant a more one on one approach. The volunteer who had wanted to try the computer approach, now switched to announcing that she would meet with ladies wanting to improve their English skills, at a time that an outreach worker could provide transport for one or more ladies, and that the volunteer could get to the office for an hour and a half. The ladies who had a very clear idea about why they wanted to learn English quickly adapted to this system, and it worked well, because changes in work schedules could be accommodated, and the students could ask specific questions that were meaningful to them, and progress faster than if they had to wait for others to practice what they already knew. Now we are ready to recruit several new tutors with experience in job placement and/or preparation for citizenship tests, so that we can expand the number of students, and provide some of the sessions in the homes of ladies who cannot get to our office without transport.
The original volunteer prepared 6 ladies for successful citizenship tests, and has taught them and three others to read and write, each at her own level. The rise in self confidence of these students shows in the sparkle in their eyes, and their enthusiasm to continue learning. Now we can spread the word about what a difference learning to read and write makes. And we have a joyful job to do, finding the tutors to make it happen for as many as we can. We now know that helping the ladies in the refugee community define more deliberately just what they really want, is the most important part of the process. And we are reassured that asking refugee women who have never had a formal education, to be in a class, is not the best way to help them to develop their English skills.
Donna Campbell
Aravind Eye Foundation
User Rating: 3
Useful, easy-to-understand, although some of the quiz language was confusing. Would be better in a group setting.
Guillermo Donaire
Sumando Manos Foundaton
User Rating: 5
helpful to assess current situation, risk and barriers, as well opportunities. Having listed all point allows us to outline a more robust project plan.
David
Green-Kenya
User Rating: 4
This is the first time i am going through the developing impact and you, and it has just opened my eyes wider. It has poked some discussion points with my team especially as the year in coming to an end. This impact is the best way to analyze your program and the impact honestly. This is they way to go for us as an Organization in the next year. Thank you
Binod Ghimire
Volunteers Community Nepal
User Rating: 5
Very useful so that we can enhance better understanding of the overall environment of the project.
Sibu George
Hope
User Rating: 3
It’s really a time for the organisation to work or overlook into the fears and treats. It was quite useful and really feel like working on this.
DR.Asif Mahmood jah
Customs Health care Society
User Rating: 5
SWOT analysis guide is very useful,informative,fruitful and applicable to any NGO intending to benefit from the opportunities by identifying the weaknesses, shedding away the threats and finally utilizing the strengths to move forward.
Tony Sewell
User Rating: 3
i really found this useful. We are going through major changes in my charity as we seek to scale – up our business. This has helped me
to remember our core strengths as an organisation, Great tool.
Joy Eze
Ability-in-Disability Initiative
User Rating: 5
It was indeed useful!
Vena
Foundation for Life
User Rating: 4
It is useful tool that helps to guide us in analysing our situation in an objective way
Marcos Antonio Candido Carvalho
Centro Projeto Axé
User Rating: 5
I find this a very useful tool. Every year we start our work at Projeto Axé evaluating and planning. For five days, 8 hours/day we all sit together to decide how we are going to proceed with our projects. Intuitively, we have been using this questions proposed by SWOT. However, by watching this video our intuitive process we become more organized next year. The concrete examples were really great.
Chandrashekhar Ramchandran
User Rating: 4
Very good tool to analyze impact of charity
Nqobile
The Forum for African Women Educationalists Zimbabwe (FAWEZI)
User Rating: 5
This SWOT analysis tool has been eye opening. It has been simplified creating a platform for easy understanding and use. While viewing i was able to analyse our organisations SWOT .
Jennifer
Central Asia Institute
User Rating: 5
This is a nice tool to self-reflect and give new perspective to a team and roles.
gwel
User Rating: 4
Important for strategic planning and to get thinking about our weaknesses and how to address them!
Bernard Makachia
FOUNDATION KARIBU TANZANIA
User Rating: 3
this SWOT analysis has been very helpful in focusing our activities. as a result we have scaled down and prioritized what we are good at (strength) which is to rescue domestically tortured children, medical care and reintegration. initially we were scattered all over the place by doing activities that other organizations and the local government could easily undertake.Our uniqueness is is running the first and only rescue centre in our region.
IRENE MBOA
[email protected]
User Rating: 5
This is such a good insight. We use it every other time unknowingly; when put down on paper and thought through, its the best method to determine why I am getting stuck is some areas and more specifically for purposes of GG fundraising! Thank you.
Tatiana
User Rating: 5
Learning the SWOT analysis was very useful as I did not knew about it before. It can help me change my way of thinking on any new initiative that our NGO starts.
Maria Isabel
CRAN
User Rating: 4
Very useful explanation and tools, thank you so much!!
Jane Segleau
ASIREA
User Rating: 1
The swot analysis is a reminder of what is really important. Where the real pitfalls are. When I write about our strengths I wrote many good words that can help me later describe our work- sometimes its hard to describe our positive aspects in a humble way! The treats remind me of the things I really have to watch out for and actions I should take to prevent negative situations.
I did not know how to print out the square though so I just did it in my notebook which is fine-Jane
Karen Wienberg
Little Footprints Big Steps International Development Org
User Rating: 4
The Board Directors will be having an in-person meeting next month to review and revise our Strategic Plan for our work in Haiti. We will definitely be using SWOT as a key part of that process. Thank you.
Mary Mutuku
Poverty Eradication Network
User Rating: 5
This exercise has extremely brought deeper understanding of my organizational internal and external environments. It has brought a new dimension of looking at the various aspects affecting our organization both positively and negatively
I have also gone further to analyze the target community’s situational analysis and shared with their representatives enhance ownership and proper understanding from both ends
I now understand which areas as an organization need to improve on and the others that require an immediate solutions to prevent to enhance our performance, competence and relevance
The inputs from the community representatives brought a deeper understanding of its situational analysis and brought more light on what need to be undertaken to total transform it from its undesirable state
It is now evident that organizations as well as individuals need to undertake their situational analysis often to keep on track. Though the tool requires wide consultations, it brings out the exact picture of an organization
Sann Jali
Foundation for Youth Empowerment
User Rating: 2
Lets help our girls realize their full potential in life. Lets give them more opportunities and chances they deserve.
Sann Jali
Foundation for Youth Empowerment
User Rating: 4
This tool is very good especially when it comes to effective implementation of projects. Without SWOT analysis we can not know our challenges, opportunities and the strength we have so as to forge ahead.
Sann Jali
Foundation for Youth Empowerment
User Rating: 5
This tool is vital for it helps to change the way we do things and the way we want it to be.
Sann Jali
Foundation for Youth Empowerment
User Rating: 5
Very easy to understand, analyze, implement, follow and even go about it.
Sann Jali
Foundation for Youth Empowerment
User Rating: 5
Without this SWOT analyisis it is difficult for one to know what actually are ones streingth, the weaknesses, incredible opportunities which are out there and know how to deal with the threats.
Nubia Mesquita
Associação para Restauração do Homem
User Rating: 3
The SWOT analysis is very important and necessary to give as ageneral view either from an internal perspective and also from an external one.
Nubia Mesquita
User Rating: 3
This tool is very important because we can map all the positive and negative points from an internal perspective and aso external. It help us visualise from different perspectives our situation, and develop better targets.
Tom Stein
BonZeb, Inc
User Rating: 2
This is a good tool for doing a annual evaluation or reevaluation on your organizational goals, services and programs. It is also a good tool for orientation to new board members and staff.
Eric Komla Amedjakou
Giving Life Nature Volunteer
User Rating: 5
I did my SWOT Analysis to analyse my nonprofit’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. I found that one of the major external threats to my organization is the conservative nature of Ghana.
Our vision is to provide Ghana, especially environmental degraded communities with self-sustainable environment to live a healthy and comfortable life. Giving Life Nature Volunteer works in partnership with affiliated organisation’s.
The organization has educated a lot of schools, and communities in rural areas about environmental protection. People have benefited from the samples of seminars held in various places. On 19 November, 2016 the organization launched a project at West End University College
Duded “1 MILLION TREE PLANTING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT CAMPAIGN” ; which was published in a news paper called Daily Graphic in Ghana on 17 November,2016. (The publication and some pictures of the successful launching program can be find in organization website http://www.gilinavoghana.org. The launching was about tree planting and proper waste management.
Since Giving Life Nature Volunteer’s mission is to encourage, support and provide activities which promote environmental sustainability in environmental degraded communities in Ghana, we have planted some seeds at Tuba in the Ga South Municipality.
The organization has been implementing environmental activity projects such as distilling choked gutters, clearing of bushes and also engaging in National Sanitation projects since its establishment. It has experience in community mobilization, information sharing and education.
The organization has a lot difficult in implementation of the projects due to our weather condition and children are involve.Since it is about environment and it is non lucrative activities it does not attract local donors and the organization faces a lot of challenges by financing this local projects in our community.
Our previous project is same as this project and we are certain that the project at hand will bring about great benefits to individuals in rural communities and Ghana.
Anthony
Alice Nursing Home
User Rating: 5
After applying the SWOT analysis tool on our organization, a new paradigm shift/level emerged that improved our market position and new confidence to face the future.
Bridgita
Grandsons of Abraham
User Rating: 5
Very helpful indeed. Will apply the tool to my organization and individual projects and recommend it to my colleagues and partners.
sakena yacoobi
afghan institute of learning
User Rating: 4
This was a very helpful reminder of what to consider when analyzing an issue or problem or new project.
Akhila Vuntla
Director
User Rating: 4
**** Very resourceful! We see many advantages in the system!
Matilda Benson Mensah
The All Trust Foundation
User Rating: 3
The slot is a very useful tool to study and one has to go through it carefully to understand what is all about ,it makes you understand where you fit and does not fit .
Shalini
Udayan Care
User Rating: 3
I learnt a lot from Swot Analysis.. Just because of SWOT i am able to manage and focus on my specific task so that i and my organisation can achieve e deadline.
Lok Meas
TPO
User Rating: 3
I have learned about SWOT analysis, it is very good guide to help in setting clear goal and planing.
Tatiana Tijerino
Un Mundo
User Rating: 4
It is good tools. The questions provided for reflections are well developed.
Sunayana Chatrapathy
Makkala Jagriti
User Rating: 5
SWOT is really useful in reflecting and understanding our Organization and paving the way forward. We have always found it helpful during our annual planning where we look to leverage on our strengths and work on our weaknesses. This process is useful not only during planning , but also whenever we want to critically analyse any of our projects
Solomon Asuquo
African Girls Empowerment Network
User Rating: 3
By watching this video on SWOT analysis, I have realized how importance it is to analyse the strength, weakness, opportunity and Threat of my organization
Dr.J.Tagore Derose
Chevalier J.L.P Roche Victoria KSG Memorial Trust Society
User Rating: 4
After Seeing this video of SWOT analysis .I Able to learn so many things. the SWOT guide looks useful and tuned to the social innovation context. I take a note on it and will work out this in forth upcoming things
Dr.J.Tagore Derose
Chevalier J.L.P Roche Victoria KSG Memorial Trust Society
User Rating: 4
After Seeing this video of SWOT analysis .I Able to learn so many things. i will work out this in forth upcoming things
Alhassan Baba
Grameen Ghana
User Rating: 5
SWOT analysis tool has really helped our organization in identifying and doing a critical self introspection, there by identifying our strengths and weaknesses , the weaknesses identified serves as breeding grounds that unearthed opportunities and strengths for future planning. The information is indeed useful for planning, implementation and for monitoring &evaluation of projects/programs. Thanks!
Dr Bhushan Punani
Blind People's Association
User Rating: 5
The tool is very useful to understand Strength and Weakness of the organization. It also teaches how to see opportunities and threats for the organization. This will help us to design comprehensive plan of our organization which will focus on utilizing strengths, and reducing weakness, and tapping opprtunities, and converting threats into strength.
Sarah
Nourish
User Rating: 4
this was a really user-friendly and simple guide and made the idea of doing a SWOT analysis alot less daunting.
Tasneem
Ahmedabad Women's Action Group
User Rating: 4
It was an enlightening experience. The video is a useful guide for beginners as well as for those organisations or projects that find themselves stagnant.
Yoana Stoyanova
Ideas Factory Association
User Rating: 4
Going through the whole SWOT analysis with our Baba Residence project, we actually managed to realize a few contradictions in the public identity of the project, which we weren\t realizing before that. It helped us to better realize how to come up with more integrate and clear overall message. But there’s more to be discovered when it comes to evaluating the scope of threats.
Thank you.
Ana Marcelino
World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc.
User Rating: 5
Great tools.
Asena Filkova
Network for Ecofarming in Africa (#1523)
User Rating: 3
Thank you very much for providing us with such a useful training.
`Militsa
Ideas Factory
User Rating: 4
Very useful and helpful video guide. It helped our organisation to improve our communication strategy and a way to develop new strategy!
I totally recommend it .
Asif jah
customs health care society
User Rating: 3
SWOT is a wonderful tool to benefit from our strengths and opportunities and learn from from weaknesses and threats.
Md. Maksudur Rahman
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS)
User Rating: 5
We think this is very simple SWOT Analysis tools but it is very effective. We are a very small organization in Bangladesh and working at the grass-roots level. We developed our fund raising plan used this SWOT analysis tools. Suppose in before we didn’t think about our organizational strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats so now we are very clear about the capacity of our organization. So, finally we would like to say that SWOT Analysis is very important before going to raise the fund.
Luz Piza
Organización de Educación Ambiental, AC
User Rating: 5
Thank you for this version of SWOT analysis guide looks very useful, I haven’t yet had a chance to use the tool, but certainly I will use it.
Luz Piza
Organizacion de Educacion Ambiental AC
User Rating: 5
SWOT is an important tool to update in the organization for better planning, long term. It allows us to know our environment to consider our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that will affect the implementation of projects as well as the achievement of our goals.
Roshan Bhandari
Azizz Foundation
User Rating: 3
It was useful to make plan and strategy in the project.
Thank you
Talemos Data
Patkinson PAtients Support Organization-Ethiopia
User Rating: 5
Very helpful tool to scan both internal & external environments. It hits to think in advance of about the obstacles we may face.
We will integrate the lessons fro SWOT to our fortnightly meetings.
DAVID
TUMAINI FUND
User Rating: 5
It is a better analysis for better planning especially making organizations more vibrant in carrying out their mission effectively for the welfare of the society. I’ll have to come back again for more insights, thank you.
Laila Risgallah
Not Guilty Inc
User Rating: 5
This is a very beneficial tool: simply explained and to the point. Opens the eyes on how we are really doing even if it is painful to really look in the mirror and face our weaknesses. Yet at the same time it is encouraging to see that we do have strengths and opportunities.
Eitan Oren
JISP
User Rating: 5
The SWOT analysis was helpful, thank you!
ec
Project Have Hope
User Rating: 5
very helpful video, it’s nice and to the point.
Tessa Davis
Just Like My Child Foundation
User Rating: 5
JLMC carried out this SWOT analysis during a board meeting. It was an incredibly useful tool in helping us to define what we are doing well, what we need to work on, how we can best leverage our legacy to date and to think about what is out of our control, so we could begin to discuss what we might do as an organization should threats arise.
Cathy Clifton
Ama Foundation
User Rating: 2
I found the SWOT Analysis helpful but the DIY Course thing was a bit confusing – were we supposed to create our own course somehow? I think the SWOT analysis prepared me to move forward with some of your other information which I have downloaded regarding setting up a fundraising plan – the SWOT Analysis forced me to think things through clearly in preparation for that.
Shannon
Thanda
User Rating: 4
Useful video as I often struggle to be concise and in-depth when it comes to SWOT analysis.
Nqobile Nkiwane
FAWEZI
User Rating: 4
Explanation has been helpful in understanding SWOT.It also enables introspection as to what and were an organisation or project stands.
Further more it give insight on further planning.
Joanna Bega
Child Rescue Nepal
User Rating: 5
Although I have used the SWOT analysis tool before, it was good to come back to it fresh. A lot has changed in the organisation over the past year and so filling in the grid again brought new areas into focus. New opportunities have opened up to us – which is exciting – and it’s always good to name your threats so you can develop appropriate strategies.
Rut Roman
A mano Manaba c/o Corporacion Grupo Randi Randi
User Rating: 3
I think this is a very practical tool that I will share in our next organization meeting.. I can also use it during our community meetings with my neighbors I suppose the more people I get involved in the process the more ideas and creative associations we will get.
Great and simple!
Meryem Salman
Buldan Egitim ve Dayanısma Vakfi
User Rating: 5
Swot analysis help us to test our new ideas why it might work and why it might fail
Meryem Salman
Buldan Egitim ve Dayanısma Vakfi
User Rating: 5
By taking all the things that effect our new ideas into account, swot analysis will help us to organize the things we can control or the things we can’t
Debra aka Brique Zeiner
Leben und Lernen in Kenia e.V.
User Rating: 4
I’m sitting here with an LLK colleague at the moment after watching the tutorial. We are going to discuss the possibilities of the annual porcelain festival after experiencing quite a good fundraiser this past weekend – but wanting to take into the pros and cons into consideration. SWOT is a perfect possibility to put it all onto one sheet. Thank you.
Meena
[email protected]
User Rating: 4
My organization does SWOT analysis along with its partner organisations. However, this session helped to refresh the thoughts
M Wright
Little Red Bird Animal Sanctuary
User Rating: 4
The SWOT analysis allowed for deep analyzing of strengths and weaknesses of the organization. Sometimes there are things that we do not want to admit.
Nguzo Ogbodo
Hope and Dreams Initiative
User Rating: 5
Watching the SWOT video has helped understand my organizations weakness and strengths, we are pretty young and new to the non profit industry but i have realized what was missing. In Nigeria where we implement our programs, it is very difficult to penetrate into the system because there are not commonly talked about like menstruation and sex . And i see that as a threat to my organization, our weakness is finding ways to reach and connect with the community. Our strength is the fact that we are providing what no other organization is doing, we are creating WASH Reading Rooms in schools with hand washing books, posters and hand washing station in front of the classroom, we also install a sanitary pad station inside the library so no girl misses school during her period and also providing menstrual hygiene education.
Our biggest is to reach out to other organization and collaborate with them.
I am also going to use the SWOT with my volunteers and recommend to board members.
Jessica Hutting
KDM Foundation
User Rating: 4
Short, smart, and clear.
Nasira Habib
Khoj-Society for People's Education
User Rating: 4
The SWOT analysis, I did, revealed that we have failed to convert our strengths into opportunities. This learning is definitely going to make us change our strategies.
MacFarlane
VHF
User Rating: 4
The SWOT analysis tool was very helpful in helping our organization make very critical decisions. We were able to list all our strengths and weaknesses for the first time which we never really thought about. It enabled us to dig deeper into our processes and how we approach projects. We focused even more on our strengths and weaknesses now than ever before! We’re working on various solutions to our weaknesses and trying to take advantage of our strengthens.
Binka
Iracambi
User Rating: 4
Good to brush up my skills and to compare with the previous one I did nine months ago
George Obua
Kole Intellectual Forum
User Rating: 2
Through this course of SWOT Analysis; it has made it possible for us to discover the area we can improve on, and build our foundation strongly.
Abdul-Karim Ziblim
WUZDA - Ghana
User Rating: 1
Good and well preparation when fund raising tools is understood.
Wirsiy Emmanuel Binyuy
Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW)
User Rating: 3
What a great session on SWOT. We just learn more again to learn how to differentiate between what we can do from what we can not do. This sometimes need us to know our strengths and weakness and look at opportunities that can make us strong and the threats that we need to tackle. Thanks to Global Giving for this opportunity
Julius Otieno
KICK Artisan Development Group
User Rating: 5
The SWOT analysis is the best tool to plan for organisation. It helps in achieving the organisation’s goals.
kajaga Ronny
HANDLE-Uganda
User Rating: 4
The SWOT strategic Analysis have greatly Supported HANDLE’s management decision making in understanding and maximizing the organizational strength and opportunities to achieve a greater impact. We are now able to analyze our weaknesses and derive appropriate approach to deal with any imaging issues
Michael
Serve Uganda
User Rating: 5
An excellent organizational development and evaluation tool. I have used it many times over the years and this was an excellent refresher course.
Deivis
JUAN BOSCO CORPORATION
User Rating: 1
Our experiences have been fascinated. Every moment that we go through this platform we find something new that encourages us to keep working.
Edward Natili
Namusia Rural Welfare Programme
User Rating: 2
Am looking forward to sharing the idea of SWOT analysis with my colleagues across all levels. I really appreciate your help and I will request you to assist with any of the soft copies from your system and share with the rest.
AGYAPAH
support for community mobilization project/program
User Rating: 5
Deepened my understanding OF SWOT,Iie BEING AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR ORGANIZATION GROWTH DEALING WITH ORGANIZATION CHALLENGES THEREFORE ACHIEVING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, IT REWARDING STUDYING TO DAY THOUGH IN NATIONAL HOLIDAY THIS DAY 1/9/2017.;THANKS FOR THE INSTRUCTOR/COACH
Andrew Martin Niwagaba
Ngoma Aid Foundation
User Rating: 5
A very informative tool highlighting the importance of self-evaluation and how to get things done.
JABON THOMAS LOMNAN
AFRICA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
User Rating: 5
The SWOT Analysis has help our COLLEGE,(AIUC) recently to indentify our KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS and has possibely improved in our Research Policy formilation strategies.It helps in FOCUSED MANAGEMENT on effectiveness and culture of values learning in building SMART GOALS.I Personal recommend SWOT as effective tool,for effective organisational success.
Edward Feeley
Clara Luna
User Rating: 5
Very usefull
shanigar
The Association of People with Disability (APD)
User Rating: 5
This SWOT analysis was done for most of our employees from support functions . It was very interesting to know about the weakness and threats part. The opportunities part was very good to grab new oppurtunities for our organisation. It was very helpful for making our planning for future . We have come out with detailed plans for each unit after seeing their strengths and weakness
shanigar
The Association of People with Disability (APD)
User Rating: 5
This SWOT analysis was done for most of our employees from support functions . It was very interesting to know about the weakness and threats part. The opportunities part was very good to grab new opportunities for our organisation. It was very helpful for making our planning for future . We have come out with detailed plans for each unit after seeing their strengths and weakness
Joseph Mary
The Prince of Peace Fellowship
User Rating: 5
This is a day to day tool in planning and evaluating competence of our performances in our organization. However, I used it to re-evaluate myself in performance of the whole organization and found that I need to improve much on my weaknesses, develop a mitigation plan on my threats and work effectively harder on my strength and open eyes towards opportunities. We used the same tool with all workers and volunteers and the results were amazing; we are able to marry all our strength and opportunities to reduce weaknesses and threats in our strategic planning.
Edouard KALAKUKO KYETILE
BUREAU D'AIDE AU DEVELOPPEMENT COMMUNAUTAIRE ''BADEC-RDC''
User Rating: 1
This manual is a true tool for planning well on the threats, strengths, opportunities and weaknesses that a project may encounter in its implementation cycle. It is here that we would like to thank the publishers and the GG Team for making this medium available free of charge.The SWOTs help us to detect the strengths of our projects (resources implemented), weaknesses (resources we do not have), threats (social environment, political, donor disengagement from the project), opportunities (new horizons that the project opens in the future). In our case, we had considered the technical and administrative training of the project staff, advocacy with the political administrative and health authorities of the country.
Riana
Fiela Funds Cheetah Breeding Project
User Rating: 5
We have to build on our strength and expand to be strong enough when it comes to our weaknesses. We have to partner with more like minded people, but to be careful that it won’t turn out to be a threat if they take your ideas and run. We must focus on our opportunities we have, and concentrate on wat we do good, to improve and be even better. The biggest weakness is financial independence. To save the endangered cheetah we must have land, the best food and medical care.
Riana
Fiela Funds Cheetah Breeding Project
User Rating: 5
The SWOT analysis is very helpful and a tool that any NPO can learn a lot from. You can get to the core of your business weaknesses and build on the strenghts to be more successful.
Yosef
Disability Development Initiative
User Rating: 5
SWOT IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL TO ANALYSE FACTORS AFFECTING ORGANIZATIONS. SURPRISINGLY, I FOUND WHAT OUR ORGANIZATIONS STRENGTH BY DOING SWOT.
Narayan Prasad Maharjan
FOCUS Nepal
User Rating: 4
SWOT analysis has been helpful tool in identifying need, challenges and identify overall status of the organization.
Narayan Prasad Maharjan
FOCUS Nepal
User Rating: 4
SWOT analysis helped in identifying our overall status of the organization.It has become guide to identify road map for our organization.
Narayan Prasad Maharjan
FOCUS Nepal
User Rating: 1
SWOT analysis is a useful tool for planning.Thanks for your proper guidance. Now we know the current status of our organization. We also know the challenges ahead of us.
Amos
Sustainable Development For All-Kenya
User Rating: 4
This SWOT analysis tool is simple to understand and we hope to use it in our capacity building trainings for local groups we partner with.
serki sherpa
Azizz Foundation
User Rating: 5
SWOT analysis has given me clear vision of viewing my project its impact etc
serki sherpa
Azizz Foundation
User Rating: 5
Trying SWOT analysis i am surprised to see what my chances were and what could the results have been. i am not gonna implement any action without performing SWOT now on.
Liliam Martinez
Trust for the Americas
User Rating: 5
Thank you so much for the information , is so useful for a critical analysis the internal and external factors for all our programs.
Best regards.
Vincent Paul
Community health, housing and social education (CHHASE)
User Rating: 4
I feel this tool is perfect to analyse our NGO old age center.
Debadutta Dash
Sukarya
User Rating: 5
SWOT analysis is always helpful to adopt an effective strategy to succeed. It is the best way to overcome threats and weaknesses by positioning the strengths appropriately to cash in on opportunities. It can be used at any time for any areas of work.
Evans
Mathari Children's Fund panairobi
User Rating: 3
Dash, Allow me to agree with you on your sentiments. The best foot forward is the foot that positions itself appropriately to take the advantage of an opportunity. How else are companies making big sales and staying afloat in the face of stiff competitions? They DO NOT LET OPPORTUNITIES PASS THEM and so they grab every chance to make a kill in business.
Thank you for your post.
Evans
Mathari Children's Fund panairobi
User Rating: 5
I love using the SWOT analysis because it is uniquely designed to work both for my organization and myself as an individual. I realize that sometimes. it is my weaknesses as a person that affects the performance of the department I head or even the organization I lead.
Recently I went through a process called SYSTEMATIZATION and the process simply allows one to learn from recalled experiences and use the learning therefrom to inform present and future practice. SWOT analysis too enables one to we well aware of their strong points as well as ponder about their shortcomings.
Rut Roman
A mano Manaba c/o Corporacion Grupo Randi Randi
User Rating: 4
I had heard of this tool, but your tutorial with clear examples has made me want to sit down and conduct a SWOT analysis of our operation. I think it can be useful.
Rut Roman
A mano Manaba c/o Corporacion Grupo Randi Randi
User Rating: 3
This is a very useful tool to asses our perception of how we are doing, I will share it with other collaborators and compare their input.
Hazel Ann Lenida
National Confederation of Cooperatives
User Rating: 5
In our mission to uplift the lives of Filipino children through social and financial education in partnership with various government organizations and local cooperatives, it is important for us to continuously improve the concepts that we share with the teachers, children, and other stakeholders. This tool is helpful for us to identify our next plan of action.
Adine Roode
Wildlife Conservation Trust ta Hoedspruit Endnagered Specis Centre
User Rating: 4
SWOT analysis is essential tool and one we sometimes oversee. Thanks for the reminder and tool provided
Nicholas M. Syano
Drylands Natural Resources Centre (DNRC)
User Rating: 5
Very informing and useful tool. I will apply it in my organization
Elaine McLevie
Episcopal Refugee Network of San Diego
User Rating: 4
I discovered SWOT and the Learning Circles, as a member of Global Giving’s Leadership Academy, two years ago. Another member of our Board had also used these tools and together we used them at board retreats and regular meetings, and learned a lot from them. I am now trying to find out how to access the electronic form for SWOT so I can fill it in for a report I need to send to Global Giving. It is a double SWOT this time – even more important learning. (I have reread the information and watched the video, which is very informative). Elaine
Vandana Anil Dass
Helping Hand Welfare Society
User Rating: 5
Great exercise. The Video makes it very simple. Good animation and clear articulation.
Christina Taylor
Dzherelo Children's Rehabilitation Centre
User Rating: 5
Our SWOT analysis was done in conjunction with a team of business volunteers. We learned that we do some things really well and our leaders in Ukraine, yet we don’t use all of our resources when we need to do so. We some times get stuck in a lack of creativity.
Vidhya
Agragamee
User Rating: 4
In Agragamee we are working to take forward primary education of children. The SWOT analysis helped to clear away a lot of confusion on how to move to the next step of reaching out to Government Schools with innovative models. It helped us primarily match our strengths with the opportunities we have. It also helped in preparing for anything that might go wrong by identifying the threats and weaknesses. This has helped successfully design training modules for Government School teachers that would facilitate successful training programs for qualitative education int he Government schools.
Bisi Bright
LiveWell Initiative LWI
User Rating: 5
Interesting….Pragmatic and applicable.
Thank you.
Laura
User Rating: 4
This tool is ideal to use when discussing project extensions. You often underestimate threats, but due to this visualization you keep more attention on the possible issues that may arise.
Evans
User Rating: 4
Yes Laura, I agree with you that the mistake we sometimes do as managers is to underestimate the reality of the threats and when the threats hit us, our programme is delayed or derailed!
Evans
Mathari Children's Fund panairobi
User Rating: 5
For me, as a Manager of the organization, the most interesting part of the SWOT Analysis tutorial is the “T”. While it is easy to marvel about Strengths, be gloomy about Weaknesses and marvel at Opportunities that exist for me at MCFpanairobi, the Threats scare me for the mere fact of their reality of existence. Threats appear to me the serious drawbacks that my organization faces, and the sad fact is that in my case, some threats are beyond my control and so I am left wondering how i can mitigate them. An example here is the fact that my organization operates in the middle of Nairobi’s WORST slum dwelling with daily threats of insecurity for staff and the beneficiaries.
Overall, it is a good learning to do the SWOT analysis. Thank you Global Giving Team!
Ayelen
User Rating: 4
I strongly believe that every organisation should have, at least, one SWOT analysis done. It represents the base on which we are, which allows us to plan future actions in accordance with our present.
Muhammad Achar
Fast Rural Development Program (FRDP)
User Rating: 4
Useful Indeed
Jessica Núñez de Mirabal
Transición a la vida
User Rating: 5
This tool makes the work we have in our project clearer, the model presented on this page makes it more didactic and easy to understand not only for us but also for those interested in participating in our project
Radhika Arvindam
Ashwini Charitable Trust
User Rating: 5
SWOT is a very useful and valuable tool for any organisation to use and for detailed analysis of the specific project
Rose
Ihopee .org
User Rating: 4
The SWOT analysis method is very intense and more productive. We intend to utilize this more our weakness were more and hence the fundraising did not do well. We will use our strength to bring in more people to add on to the funds drive effectively.
Rose
Ihopee .org
User Rating: 5
More patience needs to applied as we use the SWOT analysis.
Mary Mutuku
Poverty Eradication Network
User Rating: 5
Its an amazing tool, helps you to explore comprehensively your organization and forging the way forward to achieve its objectives. very inspired to use SWOT analysis
Busayo Obisakin
Women Inspiration Development Center
User Rating: 5
This SWOT Analysis is going to be very useful for us to analyze our project for 2018. It will be so good for our Coordinating Council to sit down and analyze what could be our strength, our weakness, the opportunity that can be open to us and Threats as we embark on this new year project. Answering these question is going to help us to prepare better than we normally do on our projects which would also bring more achievement.
Sha Nigar
THe Association of People with Disability
User Rating: 4
We used this for planning of Fundraising activities in Marketing strategies and it was quite helpful in translating SWOT into improving our ways of doing things.
We also use SWOT in the strategic planning of various program,s of APD like Education , training, placement, physio therapy and Advocacy.
We have done SWOT analysis for our Partner organization and helped them to improve their quality of programs
Ramamohan Rao Kakani
Basic Research Education And Development Society
User Rating: 5
Our team of volunteers have developed a model to set up Children’s libraries in govt. schools in 2009 as we had to give up the then operating “Scholarships” program. Initially, we established libraries in schools recommended by our coordinators. A field study of libraries established in the first two years has revealed that the selection process was incorrect. We then decided to adopt an objective and unbiased model of selecting beneficiary schools. We have gradually evolved processes and systems to operate the libraries. Our accountability to donors and our volunteerism has helped some more Members with similar vision joining us and rendering a helping hand. For example, all our printing work was done free of cost. Premises for receiving books and making sets for libraries was given free to us. We have volunteers doing making sets of books. We have moved forward by motivating students to do brief notes on books read and giving prizes to them. And also we have replenished new books to existing libraries on a rotation basis till now. We are going to replenish all existing libraries with new books from next academic year. We are now regularly interacting with headmasters and library teachers. In this way, we are continuously fine tuning our program for effective utilization of libraries established by us.
Felix Sunday Khamis
Grassroots Relief and Development Agency
User Rating: 2
We use SWOT analysis in all our work.
In planning new projects we are using SWOT analysis to inform us of our strength, weakness, opportunities and threats in undertaking a new project.
Strength : Means resources availability to undertake the project through fact finding of the facts and statistics.
Weakness: Means lack of resources and means to get the resources. Little knowledge of the area the project will be implemented are our weaknesses.
Opportunity: Partners that can help us with logistics and resources from donors are opportunities to explore.
Threats: New restrictive legislative issues by the Government and insecurity in project areas are threats.
However; lessons of SWOT analysis is very important tool for planning in both humanitarian and businesses entities.
Lack of critical SWOT analysis will lead to over/under estimation of the situation.
Ramamohan Rao Kakani
Basic Research Education And Development Society
User Rating: 5
We have already started taking action on the lines detailed in the Webinar. For example, we speak to headmasters/library teachers of all library schools on telephone asking them specific questions about the functioning of library program like are they allowing students to operate the libraries, are students allowed to borrow books to take home, read and return and what are the problems in not lending books. Based on a response like not allowing students to operate the library as they do not have enough confidence in the ability of students ability to manage the library, we tell them that it is important that students are lent books to take home whether the books are issued by the students or teacher. Thus, instead of sticking to our guidelines of students operating the libraries, we told them that it is important to lend books, be it the student or teacher doing it. Similarly, in schools where books are not issued for fear of loss of books, we told them that we will replenish books on an annual basis and they should not bother about loss of borrowed books. We did this exercise in November and Dcember 2017.
We will interact with all library school HMs/Library teachers again in July 2018 to find out whether they have received the 40 new books sent to them and find out whether they have issued a book to each student before summer vacation (April-June) asking them to exchange books among themselves to read more books during vacation and whether students have submitted brief notes on books read by them. Based on the feedback, we will request them to recommend names of students with best write-ups to give prizes. We will once again talk to them in November/December 2018 to find out whether they have received the prizes for students and request them to give away the prizes on the Annual Day of the school.
This is not a sample survey but a complete count and this will continue to be done three times a year. We have come to this stage by listening to the study conducted on BREAD libraries by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad and taking action on its findings.
We have set up 1024 libraries in govt. schools in the last 9 years. Earlier, we were requesting headmasters and library teachers to adopt our guidelines. Some were following and others were not. Recent TISS Report has made us act and we have actually followed almost all suggestions made in the webinar like asking simple questions that got us specific answers. And these answers helped us to modify our systems to overcome the difficulties faced by schools. We can upload the responses to our interactions with headmasters and library teachers of schools, if required. That will show that more than 60% schools are lending books to students , 20% are lending selectively for specific purposes and the other 20% are not lending books to students. However, they have promised to lend books from now.
Felix Djan Foh
PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY NETWORK. (PIRAN)
User Rating: 3
VERY USEFUL LESSONS FOR PROJECTION EVALUATION AND IMPLEMENTATION.
Resty K Mutaawe
Change African Child Int.
User Rating: 2
My attitude towards analyzing the SWOT guide was very negative that i would only see the threats and challenges of the organization other than the opportunities and strength however this is now the second time am introduced to this guide and i found that it really works in resource mobilization and project identification as well as in strategic plans.
Thank you to have made me understood it more.
Yves Niyiragira
Fahamu Africa
User Rating: 5
It is not easy to get the right SWOT for your organisation, but once you get it right your work becomes easier. Thank you very much for sharing this video.
BIBHUTI RANJAN MISHRA
Amara Sabai
User Rating: 5
This is an effective tool for those working as developmental agencies in the field specially ensuring community participation. Ours is nonprofit making voluntary Organisation has been working in southern most highly part of the state of West Bengal, India i.e. Sundarbans since its inception in the year 1970. Number of times we uses this shot of practice in other form. SWOT is a concise from of self realization for the organizers before starting any kind of social activities for development and which is related directly with life and living of the beneficiaries. More of the SWOT practice will lessen the risk and unforeseen occurrences which may affect the implementation of the project.
NIKOLAOS STERGIOU
Diogenis Drug Policy Dialogue
User Rating: 5
It is a really helpful tool, especialy on a difficult to reach audience, when we talk about drug policy, harm reduction and public health issues.
Thank you for sharing!
Bibhuti Ranjan Mishra
Amara Sabai
User Rating: 5
This tool is useful for those working with a target group.it is useful in the context of social innovation.
Resty K Mutaawe
Change African Child Int.
User Rating: 4
I did not know lots of information is enclosed in SWOT which i have always taken for granted and yet if properly implemented, it can take our organization at another level of development thanks to Global Giving for this training on line.
fouzia
Education, Awareness and Community Health
User Rating: 4
I like this that weaknesses that need to be worked upon in order to succeed. Good!
Rakesh Dutta Mishra
pawansut servangin vikas kendra
User Rating: 2
very useful tools
Nqobile Nkiwane
Forum for African Women Educationalists-Zimbabwe
User Rating: 4
The video simplified the SWOT analysis ,thank you. It is quite helpful and eyeopening especially on the issue of identifying one’s organisations weaknesses.
Nqobile Nkiwane
Forum for African Women Educationalists-Zimbabwe
User Rating: 4
The video simplified the SWOT analysis ,thank you. It is quite helpful and eyeopening especially on the issue of identifying an organisation’s weaknesses.
Nqobile Nkiwane
User Rating: 3
User friendly tool indeed ,thank you. It has been helpful in making sense of challenges and weakness and also an eyeopener on the issue of capitalizing on strengths.
Nqobile Nkiwane
Forum for African Women Educationalists-Zimbabwe
User Rating: 4
Well explained approach which is easy to apply.
Florence Ndukuyu
Women Without Borders - Kenya
User Rating: 4
I have come to learn that most organisations say where I operate like short curt Yet Using SWOT analysis tool can develop effectiveness in running of the organisation.I personally had developed fear when I reach this pages I could harry to move that now am going to spend a lot of bundles and I may end up not serving other sections.From today I will start following up slowly by slowly.
Abdullahi Mohamed
Nomadic Pastoral and Relief Foundation (NoPReF)
User Rating: 5
SWOT analysis is helpful and necessary to the every organization. Through this we can identify the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats to an organization as when we did this analysis.
I will recommend this to our partners and colleagues. Thank you so much.
Obua George
Kole Intellectual Forum
User Rating: 3
It is helping us to improve our weaknesses as well safeguarding our threats; at the same making us to tap all possible opportunities by using our strength
Mukti Chakrabarti
Rahara Abhikshan
User Rating: 5
I have done SWOT Analysis earlier. But I shall do it again as it is very useful tool to judge our performances in different perspectives. Simultaneously by this tool we can also judge ourselves,our community, our organisation and also our running projects.
Konye Emmaculate
Adele Reproductive Health Foundation-Clinical Training Center for Family Planning
User Rating: 1
The SWOT Analysis is an important tool use in planning your work. It is also use to evaluate how one is getting on with whatever plans one have put in place to succeed. But it must not completely be reline on because of changing times and policies.
Thulisile Maziya
Snatsisa Lubombo
User Rating: 4
The SWOT analysis us somehow a familiar tool but as I have see ans learnt about it, I have established tha it holistically evaluates the organisatiol projects such that. I gave able to identify some gaps
Ray
User Rating: 5
This is a very helpful tool for any planning of projects or problem solving. The video was brief, clear and easy to comprehend,
Thank you for providing this!
Simon Martha Mkina
Tanzania Journalists Alliance
User Rating: 3
Thank you so much for the educative stuff on SWOT
Abelle Victor
Joy of hope children's home
User Rating: 5
It’s very good
Mukti Chakrabarti
Rahara Abhikshan
User Rating: 5
It is a very good tool to identify the present scenario of the organisation . After going through this application we will be able to upgrade our organisational activities.
This tool is also applicable for an individual also.
Carol Martinez
Familias Especiales
User Rating: 4
i hope you enoy it, its greta to aplicate for better work.
Appala Reddy
INDIA YOUTH FOR SOCIETY
User Rating: 3
It makes me to think about it. Yes, we will exercise this in our organization beginning with myself. We shall surely the outcome of the SWOT. I am sure it will help us to look freshly into the organization and the Society
Olobo Lawrence
DoLAX Education Trust
User Rating: 5
Very helpful. We always use it during planning. Thanks.
Jimbo Grace Ofonime
Strategy and Innovation for Development Initiative
User Rating: 5
This is quite informative and provided a refresher experience for me.
Jimbo Grace Ofonime
Strategy and Innovation for Development Initiative
User Rating: 5
The tool was quite useful to my work.
Julio Arze
Asociación Tukuy Pacha
User Rating: 5
It is really help full even for individual projects. In my case I aplied this tool in order to improve my leadership in Tukuy Pacha and I found in my self to many interesting thinks to develop in the proces. Being critical and honest will help to use the SWOT in a better way. Thanks.
Dr. Sam Taylor, DM
John Retreat Foundation Inc. USA
User Rating: 5
My Team used the SWOT at the start of the campaign to clarify our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. After much discussion of SWOT we began the campaign. During the second week of the campaign when things were not going smooth and we were not meeting our goals and expectations we reviewed the SWOT and determined that we needed to focus on and manage the daily output from our team. Urgent memos were issued by the Team Leader and we immediately noticed a 100% increase in our output and production with increased donations from donors. We learned from this experience that we had to be pro-active in our approach and use all available strategies in our fund raising approach including texting, emailing, phone calls and face to face appeals for donations.
Angel Perez Soler
Nuestra Escuela Inc
User Rating: 5
This SWOT analysis guide to me to understand more my organization y priories my goal.
Nicola McGregor
ViaNinos
User Rating: 5
We haven’t done a SWOT analysis before for our organisation so I’m interested to see how we put it to good use and how it helps us focus our activities.and prioritize.
Akhilesh Tewari
Sarathi Development Foundation
User Rating: 5
SWOT is an effective tool to over come challenges, build right capacities, improve performance and strengthen systems for resutls even during tough times.
Mercy Wamaitha Mwangi
Community Cooker Foundation
User Rating: 4
This guide is very useful. Short and easy to understand.Thank you so much.
Kanupriya Kothiwal
Urban Health Resource Centre
User Rating: 5
Thank you for sharing this effectiveness tool. This will be helpful for our organisation UHRC (Urban Health Resource Centre) in building our efforts on our existing strengths and address need gaps with clear set of actions.
Amos
Oak Rural Health Organization
User Rating: 4
This video gives a perfect summary of the subject matter.
Amos
Oak Rural Health Organization
User Rating: 4
Got me back to the drawing board.
Okwang Moses
Peoples Association for Rural Development Serere (PARDS)
User Rating: 4
This SWOT analysis leads to a richer understanding of what the project or organisation can offer, the key weaknesses that need to be worked upon in order to succeed, and where to bring in external partners for assistance. Its an integral aspect in organizations for corrective measures
Augustine Omaji
Potent life skills foundation
User Rating: 4
This was really helpful to me and my organisation, it will help really assess our performance and put all that is necessary for us to do better.
Ovetin Ferris
Grassroot hope in South Africa
User Rating: 5
This helps me to understand and how important it is to know your organization health.
Augustine Omaji
Potent life skills foundation
User Rating: 4
it’s a great session.
Rita Fowler
Mustard Seed Project (Kenya)
User Rating: 5
This is a great resource. I have just used it myself to clear my mind about an issue we currently have and it was really useful. More importantly I plan to train the staff in Kenya how to use it as a way forward in school.
Robin Camara
generation John Christopher Stevens
User Rating: 5
I have always taken for granted several information and skills. But the SWOT Analysis that I just went through simply called into question all that. Today, better than ever, I believe I have the necessary tools to better develop our Organization and also to give another impetus in the context of my partnerships and the implementation of programs.It was an excellent exercise and an eye opener.
I thank you GlobalGiving Team
Louise Batty
Keep The Dream196
User Rating: 4
We use SWOT tool for the organization as well as individual performance. For example each individual in our team shares their strengths, weakness’s, opportuntities and strengths then we all add to peoples views of themselves. Then with their weakness’s the individual contracts to work on those weakness’s throughout the year. The others keep them accountable. Its a powerful tool organizationally and individually.
Krit Sharma
Nepal Village Foundation
User Rating: 3
Its a great tool to understand a complex situation and make an effective decisions by analysing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Social Awareness and Live Support
Social Awareness and Live Support
User Rating: 4
Thank you for the knowledge we got so far and that we expect to be strong experts after gaining this knowledge.Proper knowledge would lead us to a true success.
Thank you again for your efforts,SWOT
Tuzza Alonda Victor
FORDECO
User Rating: 3
The SWOT analysis is a key to improve the performance of an organization. It discovers where is the force, where is the weakness, opportunity and threat.
It allows to correct where are errors and take necessary measures to protect the organization against eventual threats.
Karn Mahadik
Applied Environmental Research Foundation
User Rating: 4
This tool came out to be pretty handy in helping us to understand the scope of our project and the areas we need to improve upon. The video and the document were particularly helpful. SWOT analysis should be done in the initial stages of every project as it helps you to act keeping the ground realities in mind.
Rebecca Zeigler Mano
Education Matters
User Rating: 5
SWOT is an excellent tool to help make sense of a challenging environment and then chart the way forward to make impact with an idea, project or strategy.
kopila kunwar
http://nmcnepal.org
User Rating: 3
this is great to know swot analysis
monique beauchamp
beauchamp charity foundation
User Rating: 3
I will try to do my best wit SWOT
kopila kunwar
http://nmcnepal.org
User Rating: 3
learning this tool I got difference experience. We usually used this tool for board meeting and we discussions about strength , weakness, opportunity , threat. it is wonderful to learns .thank you
kopila kunwar
http://nmcnepal.org
User Rating: 4
SWOT Analysis Tool is an effective tool for self development and analysis. Though it cant be used practically in all the circumstances, yet it is an useful tool.
Hamidu dabo Jr
Jaji mumema na kanmu
User Rating: 5
This is great and so helpful….. It really help our organisation analyse our potential success and failure rate.. So good. I like it
Halima Annagi
Association Errahma des Handicapées Azilal Morocco
User Rating: 5
The use of the SWOT method has served us well as a guide to define our strengths and weaknesses, our opportunities and the threats that could put our whole career at risk. But thanks to this methodology we have overcome the challenges and we have won the first prize for the excellence of the Moroccan woman in 2015 and the With And For Girls prize in 2017 and the honor of Her Habilities in 2018.
Sandile Ndawonde
Green Network
User Rating: 5
This tool help to shape my understanding on the issues that I wanted to develop.
Junior Toe
Community Youth Network Program CYNP
User Rating: 1
This tools is very useful and will help our organization in achieving goals of our projects
Chimwemwe Limani
Imagine Afrika
User Rating: 2
It is a very good assessment tool which tells internal weakness and strengths as well as external opportunities and threats. It is a good planning tool and helps develop a risk mitigation plan
Chimwemwe Limani
Imagine Afrika
User Rating: 5
This is a great project or organization planning tool. Imagine Afrika will use it to plan for projects and during strategy updating workshops
Leila Hawken
Surgeons of Hope Foundation
User Rating: 5
Our foundation sends teams of surgical specialists to developing countries in Latin America, anticipating a future where infants and children will have access to first-world care for their congenital or acquired heart problems. In the developed world, such heart problems are dealt with swiftly; not so in the disadvantaged world. Our vision foresees the development of a network of children’s hospitals throughout Latin America, assisting each other as necessary through training and consultation.
The President of our organization, a renowned pediatric cardiologist, uses SWOT analyses frequently and to good advantage. He often employs SWOT to analyze the potential success of our program before we send a team to a particular country. Or, he uses SWOT to measure the value of a suggested change to our methodology.
Because he believes in the value of SWOT, our organization believes in the value, and are often using the exercise to good advantage.
SWOT is an extraordinarily useful tool.
ADETORO ODUSAMI
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR FAMILY ADVANCEMENT (ICFA)
User Rating: 3
With SWOT analysis on our organization’s project we have come to realize there are so much more yet to be done for us to have a sucessful,project
Yoana Stoyanova
Ideas Factory Association
User Rating: 4
Thank you! It’s explicit and useful too to have for regular check-in where the organisation/ a project is heading related to the main goals.
We used it for the development of our Baba Residence project – everyone did it individually and together as a team. It’s a good way to compare our common understanding of the project.
Jami Smith
Mayanza, Inc.
User Rating: 5
This was very straightforward and helpful in providing a framework for looking at our organization. This process has challenged my organization to understand what our limitations are, helped us to better understand both internal and external threats and develop a plan to work at what my organization needs to succeed.
Alian Ollivierre
I Am A Girl Barbados
User Rating: 5
This tool I have used in the past, but watching the video and re-visiting our SWOT Analysis allows us to best re-access our present and where we need to be going forward, as our goals grow with our work.
Robin Camara
generation John Christopher Stevens
User Rating: 2
SWOT analysis is a great tool to use periodically .A SWOT Analysis can be made for an entire organisation, but also for individual departments, programmes or even projects. Complete each of the quadrants in the worksheet according to what you see as your or your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses as well as the external opportunities and threats that may help or hinder you.
Carlos Torrado
Hogares Teresa Toda
User Rating: 5
Very interesting. Refreshed known information.
Ramdani Murdiana
Ibn Haldun University
User Rating: 5
I like your tools.
Thank you, I hope I can create a book related to this tool.
with your permission.
K M. PALIWA
G.L.KAK
User Rating: 5
SWOT is useful tool it gives analysis which can be followed for long term improvement in the organisation.
Nqobile Nkiwane
Forum for African Women Educationalists-Zimbabwe
User Rating: 4
Well simplified and easier to apply on different projects
Peter Upton
Young Scientists for Africa
User Rating: 4
We are a new, small charity in the UK and will use SWOT to plot our development and strategy.
Ravinder Kaul
Setu
User Rating: 5
We have been using SWOT at Setu on a regular basis. In fact these are presented by all vertical head during the monthly review meetings. The SWOT analysis help us critical analyze our work and impact level. Particularly appreciate how SWOT challenged our understanding and helped us to embrace the internal and external threat and work at what our organization need to succeed.
I will recommend this to our partners and colleagues.
Thank you .
Aleksandr
User Rating: 5
I would like to contribute by sharing a list of swot templates (mostly for PowerPoint): https://akop.co/best-free-powerpoint-swot-templates
These are free templates and can be freely used/edited by anyone. Enjoy
Elijah Mutungi
Mundu Agricultural Environmental and Educational Organization (MAEEO)
User Rating: 5
The tool is very good and has been simplified for ease of understanding of the internal and external factors that can affect the organization or a project positively or negatively. It is user friendly in nature. It will help us in doing our organization and the various projects we will submit to Global Giving swot analysis.
Ssendikwanawa Raymond
User Rating: 4
The SWOT analysis keeps us humble and working as a team. each one of us has a weakness, seen by everyone but ready to work against it . We are motivated to work hard and appreciate others strengths.
Francis Oyat Otoo
Family Harvest Foundation
User Rating: 4
Its clear to me but not to all in our organisation. If i look at governace and leadership, finance and administration, programmes, establishment(site), staffing, program management there are open gaps while the target beneficiaries are in excess of our capacity.
Debadutta Dash
Sukarya
User Rating: 3
The SWOT analysis is really helpful for self-mapping. It gives a quick analogy of existing problems and needed resolutions at the same time. Its a quick health check up for the organization before taking any measure step.
Francis Oyat Otoo
Family Harvest Foundation
User Rating: 4
This tool is good and very useful. We employed it though has not been exhaustive of all the aspects of our SWOT. We hope in the next stage to have an exhaustive list with a lot of strengths than weaknesses.
Mushana Ivan
Tree Uganda Academy
User Rating: 4
I found such a great information that helped me further my understanding of the SWOT. .
Fred Zambroski
Lets be ready
User Rating: 4
I thin we are at a turning point and need to be thourough in our analysis.I want feedback from inside and outside the organization on potential plans
Mustafo
PO Nihol
User Rating: 4
We conducted a SWOT analysis to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats of my non-profit organization.
I also found that in terms of shortcomings, we lack the experience of mobile fundraising and other ways so that we can count on large donations at the local level.
We also lack specialists with knowledge of the English language for correspondence with partners and donors and studying materials.
From the point of view of our strengths, our organization is the only human rights organization in the Rasht region. We work with vulnerable women and children through our legal clinics.
One of our biggest opportunities is the presence of experienced lawyers and psychologists who deal with various legal assistance.
SWOT analysis will help us in developing our organization’s strategic plan.
DARIUS
HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS FOR THE LEARNING OF THE GIRLCHILD IN AFRICA
User Rating: 4
FOUND THIS VERY VERY USEFUL WHILE PRIORITIZING PROJECTS ESPECIALLY WHILE WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY
Francis Oyat Otoo
Family Harvest Foundation
User Rating: 5
Was interesting as we had a similar knowledge however it has improved our understanding of SWOT the thought to modify ours specifically for this accelerator projecy of March 2019.
Rachel Cherry
Community Empowerment Council
User Rating: 4
This is a great tool and I have used it many times over the years. Thanks for the refresher.
JANE ANYANGO
POLYCOM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
User Rating: 5
Super, I just learnt how to move to solve my campaign slow pace problem.. My swot analysis is on.
Joseph Ndegwa
Future Focus Development
User Rating: 4
A tool useful to an individual, organization or project to understand the current internal and external environment in order to improve in the future
Violet Otieno
Communities Health Africa Trust (CHAT)
User Rating: 4
By using the SWOT analysis tool, the organization is able to focus on key issues of organizational strategies.
Aminu Yahaya Ibrahim
Future Hope Links Initiative
User Rating: 3
This SWOT Analysis Have made us really Open our mind and Brain to know how Best to Move around for any Fundraising Campaign and also it keeps Us More Focus on what to do How to do where to be and to take more Actions its nice tool and Video too is Encouraging
Daud Hossain
Bangladesh Shamjik Agragati Sangstha
User Rating: 5
Here we found to take the strategic decision,SWOT analysis is very much important.Its our eventual effort to convert our Weakness as Strengths and Threats to Opportunity.
Eki Ogbeide
ESWA
User Rating: 5
This SWOT analysis tool is very useful as it helps us have a clear understanding of our project’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, which will contribute to sustaining our projects.
Md.Daud Hossain
Bangladesh Shamajik Agragati Sangstha
User Rating: 5
SWOT analysis is a strategic planning process used to help an organization identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to project development.
It is intended to specify the objectives of the project and identify the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving those objectives.
When we have in plan to make a idea into a reality , we have must require good understanding of the specific project.
Strengths and weakness are commonly inside-linked, whereas opportunities and threats usually emphasis on the external factors.
We have to identify factors that helps the organization as developed.
SAID AHMED MOHAMED
BUDO
User Rating: 2
Good undrestanble and also has very benefitable ideas.
Francis Eghehan
Strategy and innovation for development initiative
User Rating: 3
knowledge acquired from learning SWOT analysis has enabled me to look critically at the goals of my organization, and to evaluate the extent to which they are being achieved at the unit level.
The work tools kit also provide a practical guide on how to carry out a successful SWOT analysis
Said Ahmed Mohamed
Bulay Development Organization(BUDO)
User Rating: 3
valuable tool and we use normally as an organization
Suliaman Turay
Social Development International (SODEIT)
User Rating: 4
SODEIT team is looking at the strategic intentions and realities on the ground with the Board of Directors, Staff, Volunteers, interns, and beneficiaries to map a new strategic direction with GG tools. A resourceful tool in checking organization SWOT, planning and developing for a new strategic direction.
Jackie Dennis
Hope for the Nations
User Rating: 5
Really helpful and consise video. Looking forward to using the guide, think if will be great to use with our board members at board meetings
CHAT
CHAT Africa
User Rating: 5
Very useful tool and commentary. And practical for us at CHAT as we are currently working on our Strategic Plan.
Jorgo
Dembi Dollo hospital foundation.
User Rating: 5
The type of SWOT analysis here is the most useful. I got to see myself and evaluate my way of working toward my organization.
Suliaman Turay
Social Development International (SODEIT)
User Rating: 4
Very helpful in charting a new strategic direction with a participatory approach, all stakeholders on board.
Suliaman Turay
Social Development International (SODEIT)
User Rating: 4
An experience worth undertaking.
Esther Munji
User Rating: 5
The SWOT tool makes our organisation realise how much potential we have and some underutilized. This helps also to know what we need to work on for better services to the community. It is an eye opener for improvement!!
Barry Page
Tigers4Ever
User Rating: 4
A simple, but very effective tool to approach most challenges, goals and objectives. The approach helps to bring clarity of thinking to any given situation.
Felix Djan Foh
PIRAN-GH
User Rating: 5
very useful and self evaluating
Felix Djan Foh
PIRAN-GH
User Rating: 5
very usefuk
catherine Martha Agwang
Uganda Youth Development and Training Programme
User Rating: 3
The SWOT analysis is one of the great tools for planning because it helps us look at what we stand for and what we have as current reality and then derive the right action steps to take when implementing any activity. really great
Mary Mutuku
Poverty Eradication Network (PEN)
User Rating: 4
This tool has enabled me to reflect on our community project with Globalgiving and critically identified issues and way forward towards attaining our objective
AMADU B KAMARA
Kaddra Inc
User Rating: 5
The SWOT analysis has created a beautiful platform for any developmental programs in a community. I now need to be more proactive about my organization in building up a potential plan for economic development in the community. Yes I commended him for his brilliant work that he put together. It is perfect and helpful for both directors and my board members. Thanks.
KEMGUEM Brice
DEMTOU Humanitarian
User Rating: 4
The SWOT analysis was very useful to our organization. We have been using a similar approach to evaluate our organization and projects implementations but the GG SWOT analysis helped us to better identify the organization and our project weakenesses and strength. Just of recent, we have schemed an annual framework based on this program. We are grateful to GG
Anita Kiddu Muhanguzi
Sowing Seeds of Tumaini
User Rating: 5
This was a great opportunity for the organization to do an internal examination to see where we can improve on the way the programs are run.
Ed Feeley
Clara Luna Foundation
User Rating: 5
Very illuminating.
TELESPHORE EKKA
SAMAJ PRAGATI KENDRA
User Rating: 1
This is a beautiful experience of the organization and team members to understand the strength or positive factors which assist the organizational growth. It is a holistic and comprehensive self-assessment approach. Regular exercise will help us to face new challenges and will lead to the succesful implementation of the projects.
TELESPHORE EKKA
User Rating: 1
The SWOT analysis was very enriching for the organization
RAMASAMY RAJU
VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
User Rating: 4
We use this tool once in two years to keep our strength in all aspects. Normally staff will participate. We learn this tool through TROCARIRE IRELAND during their strategic planning process.
TELESPHORE EKKA
SAMAJ PRAGATI KENDRA
User Rating: 5
SWOT analysis helped staff and management to assess the strength of ourselves and teaches us to face the challenges
Mellanie Silva
EASE FOUNDATION
User Rating: 5
I was able to refresh my learning from the video, the example given enabled me to understand the message clearly. The presentation also helps us to revisit the SWOT and see how we could identify some of the areas that needs to be improved.
Albena Koleva
Muzeiko
User Rating: 1
We have used the SWOT since we run the company. We are using SWOT for self assessment of our team. and for senior-management meetings.
Albena Koleva
Muzeiko
User Rating: 1
We watch this video about SWOT every year and we still find it useful.
Ludy Lee
Taiwan Digital Talking Books Association
User Rating: 3
SWOT Analysis give some ideas to know our weaknesses and threats, however, it can help us to recognize the strengths and opportunities.
Kuriyakose Sajan
HEARDS
User Rating: 5
It was a great help for our organisation. Thanks for the information and definitely we will implement it.
JUNAX
JUNAX
User Rating: 4
Approaching to answer the concepts contained in the SWOT has been like an essay to have clear elements about something that we see very close and necessary in the life of our project a Diagnosis
Beryl Adhiambo
Springs of Hope Foundation
User Rating: 4
The topic was worth reading, it taught me a lot that i was missing in my line of work. Thanks
gothwal
http://www.justlikenew.co.in/
User Rating: 5
thanks.
Robert Gordon
User Rating: 5
I found this to be a valuable summary of how to articulate vital aspects of a project or an idea.
LWANDA KEYA
Lwanergy Infiniti Media
User Rating: 5
Excellent, simple and elaborate notes and presentation that clearly explain SWOT with practical examples
Oleksandr Tymofyeyev
Universal Peace Federation
User Rating: 5
It`s a usefool tool for any organization, and purson as well. Thank you for this deep experience and usefull knowledge.
Okirima A. McDavids
David Saint Care Group
User Rating: 5
I find SWOT very profiting and useful. Approach to SWOT analysis simplifies the tool, making it more easier to apply in various projects. It will help us critically analyze our work and impact level. I will recommend this to our partners and colleagues in the future.
Lord bless you.
Okirima
David Saint Care Group
R
Amadu Mohammed
Achievers Ghana Education
User Rating: 5
This is truly an amazing tool. I have learnt SWOT Analysis at school but my experience with this gave me more practical insight and more especially when I have to apply and implement it to achieve a result.
Heather
FundLife
User Rating: 4
This was a very useful introduction to applying SWOT to better understand where we could find opportunities and where we need to invest more time.
magdalene amujal
Kulika Uganda
User Rating: 2
i have used it before, however, i like the idea of subjecting it to individual departments. i will try it out