Swedish Mission Council
Swedish Mission Council is an association of Swedish denominations and Christian organisations that works for a just and reconciled world.
Material
Here you find material produced by the SMC, to download or order.
SMC's series of booklets 2007
 
nr 2/07 - The OD Booklet, Useful models and practices in organisational development
This booklet shares some of the models and practices that Swedish Mission Council (SMC) have found useful in our organisational development (OD) work.
» Download The OD Booklet (pdf)
 
SMC's series of booklets 2004
 
nr 2/04 - Creating Space for Grace by Rick James
This publication argues that organisational change must be both professionally excellent and spiritually passionate. By publishing this booklet SMC seeks to contribute to a discussion on spiritual aspects of change in general and organisational change in particular.
>> Download Creating Space for Grace (pdf)
 
SMC's series of booklets 2003
 
nr 6/2003 - Directions for SMCs work with evaluations
With this document, SMC would like to establish a direction for evaluation and at the same time encourage a continuous dialogue that facilitates new approaches and attitudes to evaluation in the future.
>> Download Directions for SMCs work with evaluations (pdf)
 
nr 5/2003 - Liberation and reconciliation as paradigms of mission (50 SEK) by Robert Schreiter.
This booklet contains lectures about liberation and reconciliation by professor Robert Schreiter. He was the guestspeaker at the Swedish Mission Council´s bi-annual meeting 2002.
>> Download Liberation an reconciliation (pdf)
 
SMC's series of booklets 2002
 
nr 6/2002 - Directions for SMCs work with organisational development & capacity building
This document outlines a direction for SMC´s work in capacity building and organisational development with its member organisations and in turn their partner organisations in their individual contexts.
>> Download Directions for SMCs work with OD & capacity building (pdf)
 
nr 5/2002 - Learning for change, by Bruce Britton
This book is a way of further developing an understanding of organisational learning in church-related organisations involved in international development.
>> Download Learning for change (pdf)
 
nr 2/2002 - What is mission? - lecture at the Swedish Mission Council´s bi-annual meeting 2001, by Andrew Kirk
Andrew Kirk is one of England's leading missiologists and spoke on main concepts and issues such as the holistic view of mission, partnership relations, reconciliation and vulnerability.
>> Download What is mission? (pdf)
 
Other material
 
Strengthening Organisations North and South, SMC, 2000, by Liz Goold & Bruce Britton
>> Download Strengthening Organisations North and South (pdf)
 
Cooperation towards health
>> pages 1-6 (pdf)
>> pages 7-28 (pdf)
>> pages 29-60 (pdf)
>> pages 61-95 (pdf)
>> pages 96-128 (pdf)
 
Constructing in developing countries - a guide for the planning and implementation of building projects (1996)
The original book was based on the experience of 235 Swedish builders who had worked in developing countries. This English edition has been extensively revised by the Swedish Association for Development of Low-cost Housing (SADEL) and the Swedish Mission Council.
>> Introduction and contents (pdf)
>> Chapter 1 (pdf)
>> Chapter 2 (pdf)
>> Chapter 3 (pdf)
>> Chapter 4 (pdf)
>> Chapter 5 (pdf)
>> Chapter 6 (pdf)
>> Chapter 7 (pdf)
>> Chapter 8 (pdf)
>> Chapter 9 (pdf)
>> Chapter 10 (pdf)
>> Further reading (pdf)
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