Case Study: LCapS Training Modules

Gérard Kessé Yessé and Issa Zerbo

Challenge: One of the most critical challenges faced by local partners (which contributes to high staff turnover, inflated salaries in project management positions, and expensive fines and delays in program approvals and scale-up) is the need for project managers to comply with the donors’ rules and regulations for procurement, inventory, financial monitoring, and reporting as well as those of the local government. This problem gets amplified as local partners get stronger and diversify their funding base, and often results in costly fines (for non-compliance) and funding delays.

Proposed Solution: To address this issue, ACSD pilot-tested the concept of co-developing five training modules that synthesized the expectations, rules, and regulation of the Burkina Faso government, OHADA (Organisations de l’harmonisation des affaires en Afrique), and USAID into five training modules (see Table 1 below).

Opportunity: Although the five LCapS training modules need to be adjusted to the USG’s new rules and regulations, they provide a useful model that could be adapted to other bilateral and multilateral donors and large private-sector actors and foundations.

Lesson Learned: Future programs need to facilitate the co-development of training modules that synthesize donor rules and regulations for leadership, good governance, financial management and reporting, procurement, and inventory to avoid duplication and strengthen local partners’ capacity.

(See Table 1 below to see the titles, authors, and content of the LCapS training modules.)

Table 1

Table 1. LCapS Training of Trainers (ToT) Modules that Included both Government of Burkina (GoB) and US Government (USG) Rules and Regulations for Good Governance, Human Resource Management, Procurement and Inventory Management, and Monitoring & Evaluation.

No.	Date*	Authors	Title	GoB Rules and Regulations**	USG Rules and Regulations***
1	12/1/24	Moustapha Kindo	Leadership and Good Governance Guide for Local Organizations with Funding from the USG	Y	Y
1	12/1/24	Issa Zerbo		Y	Y
2	10/5/24	Moustapha Kindo	Human Resources Management Guide for Local Organizations with Funding from the USG	Y	Y
2	10/5/24	Issa Zerbo		Y	Y
3	10/1/24	Wendpagnagdé Frédéric Patrick Tonde	Financial Management and Reporting Guide for Local Organizations with Funding from the USG	Y	Y
		Hamadé Ouedraogo
		Issa Zerbo
4	10/5/24	Seydou Diallo	Procurement and Inventory Management Guide for Local Organizations with Funding from the USG	Y	Y
		Evariste Millago
		Issa Zerbo
5	11/30/24	Rakiswendé Léon Ouedraogo	Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Guide for Local Organizations with Funding from the USG	N	Y
5	11/30/24	Della E. McMillan		N	Y

* Date the consultant team started preparing the module.

** Y = Yes; N = No. Includes the required rules and regulations from the GoB.

*** Y = Yes; N = No. Includes the required rules and regulations from the USG, which are, in most cases, compatible with the rules and regulations of all the USG agencies that support U.S. foreign assistance.

Source: ACSD. 2025. LCapS Phase III Technical Memo 3.0. Ouagadougou: LCapS for USAID/SRO.