Oz-Dev: Philippines-Australia HR Facility

The Philippines-Australia Human Resource and Organisational Development Facility (PAHRODF) follows and builds on the Philippines-Australia Human Resource Development Facility (PAHRDF) (2004 - 30 June 2010). PAHRDF assisted selected government agencies and private sector institutions to review their Human Resource Development (HRD) needs and prepare plans for improvements in HRD and service delivery. The Facility supported the plans with funding for customised interventions in identified learning areas and provision of short-term and long-term training (i.e. scholarships) to targeted individuals where key skills were needed. Training was directly linked to the institution’s needs and recipients developed ‘re-entry action plans’ to facilitate effective use of their new learning. It was expected that the objectives for institutional HRD improvement were achieved when the training and scholarship outputs were widely used in the workplace and properly resourced by management. In 2007, an AusAID-commissioned Strategic Review indicated that PAHRDF was performing strongly against its stated objectives and was developing and enhancing capacity of targeted organisations. The Review recommended that Australia continue providing assistance after the Facility ends and that the PAHRDF be repositioned to support broader capacity development.The Facility has been re-structured through a shift in orientation from a primary focus on individual capacities under PAHRDF to a more explicit emphasis on organisational capacity, to encourage thinking about a continuum of options or entry points for capacity development from individual competencies to broader organisational capacities that are key for enhanced performance. This shift is the rationale for re-naming the Facility to Philippines Australia Human Resource and Organisational Development Facility (PAHRODF).