NIE’S PREPARATORY ACCREDITATION CHECKLIST FOR NIEs
LESSONS FROM NEMA – NIE KENYA
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APPROPRIATELY
TASK
DESCRIPTION
Work on Institutional buy-in
Win the institution’s TOP management
(board of directors and head of institution)
for a more solid /SUSTAINED managerial
support
Establish an operational
point
Anchor the process in a specified section
or department
Establish an institutional
framework
This can be a committee, a department or
section within the institution.
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Champion
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Establish a link with senior
or top decision making
organ of the organization
Documentation
Dedicate personnel whose duty will be to
follow up and profile the need for the
institution to be accredited as an NIE under
the Adaptation Fund
Have a representative at the senior
management committee meetings.
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Ensure that all meetings, financial,
procurement, operational and human
resource activities of the institution are
well documented and easily retrievable.
Pursue to have good working relations with
the country’s Designated Authority
Accreditation application is not just filling a
form!
Good working relations
with DA
Obtain Financial
commitments
Developing Actual Responses
National Legal framework
Detail the National Laws that govern the
subject matter
Institutional policies
Give details on how your institution has
internals policies to implement the Laws on
the subject matter
Procedures to
Give details on how your institution
Operationalise the policies
implements the policies
Human capacity
Give details on operational point/personel
/Operational capacity to
effect the procedures
Documentation