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Tools for M&E of Capacity Strenghtening

Nigel Simister, Lucy Morris, Rick James

INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.

"Changes arising from capacity strengthening work can sometimes be measured directly. A range of tools and methodologies can also be used to help assess capacity change. Most of these were not designed specifically with capacity strengthening in mind, but can easily be adapted for the purpose. CSOs ... more

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Organisational Assessment Tools

Nigel Simister, Anne Garbutt

INTRAC (2021), 5 pp.

"Organisational assessment (OA) tools are designed to assess organisational capacity, and plan capacity development initiatives. Sometimes they are used for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) purposes as well. There are two main ways of using OA tools for M&E. One is to develop an action plan based on ... more

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M&E of Capacity Strengthening

Nigel Simister, Lucy Morris, Rick James

INTRAC (2021), 6 pp.

"Capacity strengthening is a process in which people and/or organisations are provided with external support to enhance and maintain their capacity over time. It can be a complex process, involving multiple actors, methods and influences. Monitoring and evaluation should always be designed to suppor ... more

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Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Organisations: Sharing training and facilitation experiences

John DeConinck, Khilesh Chaturvedi, Ben Haagsma, Hans Griffioen, Mariecke van der Glas

New Delhi et al.: Sage;Interkerkelijke Organisatie voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (icco);Cordaid (2008), xv, 200 pp.

"Planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) remains a challenge for many development organisations in spite of countless PME workshops, experts and manuals. Yet, we believe that effective PME is essential for organisational survival (and therefore for sustainable development) and that this can be nur ... tured through careful and sensitive PME training and facilitation. We do not propose here a PME manual: our aim in these pages is rather to share some of our real-life experiences as PME facilitators and to offer suggestions to support PME processes, with a focus on civil society organisations. As a group of facilitators who have worked on PME issues in different contexts, we realised that we confronted three common challenges: 1. First, a perception of PME as imposed, ‘technical’ and expensive [...] 2. Second, in terms of PME contents, there is a frequent focus on a particular project, or programme, rather than on the wider organisation, its reason for existence and the broader context in which it operates [...] 3. Third, we see PME support processes that emphasise training workshops which, however well delivered, seldom lead to successful PME application, let alone sustained use. This refl ects the limits of a one-shot method, as opposed to a more process-oriented approach, where PME is about day-to-day activities and attitudes, rather than ‘PME events’. So why this book? While we work in various countries, for different organisations and in different roles, we propose to share experiences that refl ect these common challenges and help to: 1. Embrace a ‘total organisation’ approach to PME, not only rooted in programmes, or projects, but with a wider perspective: that of the ‘total organisation’, with its financial dimension, its environment, its collaborators and competitors, in a context informed by local and national cultures [...] 2. Enhance custom-made PME. We have found that PME support is rarely effective if it is not customised to a particular organisation and its stakeholders [...] 3. Bring PME into daily learning practice so that it becomes part of mental processes within a partner organisation, changing mindsets and attitudes, while refl ecting contexts and capacities." (Pages 3-5) more

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Rising to the Challenges: Assessing the Impacts of Organisational Capacity Building

John Hailey, Rick James, Rebecca Wrigley

Oxford: INTRAC (2005), 29 pp.

"This Praxis Paper offers a brief overview of current thinking and practice in relation to the impact assessment of organisational capacity building interventions. The paper highlights some of the conceptual, methodological and practical challenges (issues of clarity, power and culture, among others ... more

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A Funder's Guide to Organizational Assessment: Tools, Processes, and Their Use in Building Capacity

Lori Bartczak (ed.)

Saint Paul: Fieldstone Alliance;Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) (2005), 197 pp.

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Evaluating Capacity Development: Experiences from Research and Development Organizations Around the World

Douglas Horton et al.

The Hague; Wageningen; Ottawa: International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR);Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2003), xviii, 170 pp.

"The perspective that informs this important book is that every evaluation of a capacity development effort should itself contribute to the capacity development effort and ultimately to the organization’s performance. This is a revolutionary idea in evaluation. With the idea have come the question ... more

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Organizational Assessment: A Framework for Improving Performance

Charles Lusthaus, Marie-Hélène Adrien, Gary Anderson, Fred Carden, George Plinio Montalván

Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2002), 202 pp.

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Enhancing Organizational Performance: A Toolbox for Self-Assessment

Charles Lusthaus, Marie-Hélène Adrien, Gary Anderson, Fred Carden

Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (1999), xiv, 128 pp.

"The tools and tips of this handbook go beyond measuring the impact of programmes, products and services by integrating techniques of formative assessment, in which the assessment team helps the organization become more effective in meeting its goals. The model is flexible and adaptable to any type ... more