Evaluating Capacity Development: Experiences from Research and Development Organizations Around the World
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.
Contains glossary, bibliogr. pp. 166-170
ISBN 92-9118-069-6 (ISNAR; 1-55250-111-6 (IDRC); 92-9081-274-5 (CTA)
"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 questions: Can it be done? And, if it is done, what will be the consequences? This book elucidates and deepens the idea, shows it can be done, and examines the consequences, both intended and unintended, of engaging in capacity development evaluation." (Foreword)
1 The Evaluating Capacity Development Project: an Experiment in Evaluating Capacity Development, 1
2 The Basics of Capacity, Organizational Capacity Development, and Evaluation, 19
3 Why Managers should be Concerned with Organizational Capacity Development and its Evaluation, 37
4 Towards a Holistic Approach to Organizational Capacity Development, 49
5 Towards Partnership in Organizational Capacity Development, 65
6 Approaches for Evaluating Organizational Capacity Development, 83
7 Using and Benefiting from an Evaluation, 107
Annex: Summaries of the Evaluation Reports:
Exploring capacity development in a rural development NGO in Bangladesh, 121
Towards strategic management in a Cuban agricultural research institute, 126
Understanding capacity development in a plant genetic resource center in Ghana, 131
Assessing organizational change in an agricultural faculty in Nicaragua, 136
Strengthening participatory research capacities in a Philippines root crops research center, 141
Expanding capacities in a rural development institute in Viet Nam, 147
2 The Basics of Capacity, Organizational Capacity Development, and Evaluation, 19
3 Why Managers should be Concerned with Organizational Capacity Development and its Evaluation, 37
4 Towards a Holistic Approach to Organizational Capacity Development, 49
5 Towards Partnership in Organizational Capacity Development, 65
6 Approaches for Evaluating Organizational Capacity Development, 83
7 Using and Benefiting from an Evaluation, 107
Annex: Summaries of the Evaluation Reports:
Exploring capacity development in a rural development NGO in Bangladesh, 121
Towards strategic management in a Cuban agricultural research institute, 126
Understanding capacity development in a plant genetic resource center in Ghana, 131
Assessing organizational change in an agricultural faculty in Nicaragua, 136
Strengthening participatory research capacities in a Philippines root crops research center, 141
Expanding capacities in a rural development institute in Viet Nam, 147
