The CCT will be open for application from April 2022.

For a start, it will focus on the following six capability-building areas, while promoting the use of an organisational health diagnostic to help SSAs prioritise areas of capability building:

• Innovation & Digitalisation

• People Practice

• Volunteer Management

• Board Leadership

• Financial Sustainability

• Evaluation & Research

Schemes will be rolled out progressively in phases.

We will start with schemes that provide SSAs with the following:

1. Organisational Health. Consultancy support to carry out an in-depth diagnostic to assess their organisational health across 7 domain areas to derive an Organisational Health Index (OHI) score, a measure of its organisational health. This helps SSAs to systematically and comprehensively assess their strengths and areas of development, and identify follow-up plans to strengthen their organisations. This will also better guide SSAs on the funding and support to apply for under the CCT.

2. Digitalisation. Tech-and-GO! will be enhanced under the CCT’s Innovation &Digitalisation pillar to be one comprehensive scheme that makes adopting ready technology and IT equipment more accessible to SSAs by listing suitable IT solutions, offering funding support and advisory on how SSAs can go digital, among others. Specialised capability-building and consultancy support will also be available for SSAs who want to adopt technology strategically to transform the way they deliver services.

3. The CCT Open Grant scheme will provide funds to support SSAs’ ground-up capability/capacity building projects that do not fall within the scope of the other more targeted schemes that seek to support specific areas of capabilities.