Evaluating support to capacity development

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Evaluating support to capacity development

• Piet de Lange
• Evaluator
• Policy ad Operations Department (IOB)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• The Netherlands
• piet-de.lange_at_minbuza.nl

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Rationale for the evaluation

• Lack of policy and intervention theory
• No clear concept of capacity
• No indicators
• Need to get a better understanding
• Improve policy and effectiveness of support

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Capacity development and support
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Focus on organisations

• Capacity Ability to manage affairs successfully
  (OECD)
• Capacity development organisational development
• Organisations, smaller units of larger
  organisations, organisational networks

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Organisations as open systems
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Capacity development is

• Organisation and location specific
• Non-linear
• Endogenous
• Complex

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Evaluating capacity
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Evaluating capacity development
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Core capability 1 Commit and act

• Has a plan, takes decisions and acts
• Mobilises resources
• Inspiring, action oriented leadership
• Has quality system, including monitoring
• Etc.

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Core capability 2 Deliver on objectives

• Resources proportionate to deliver output
• Access to knowledge
• Outputs are relevant for achieving outcome
• Etc.

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Core capability 3 Relate

• Organisation has political and social legitimacy
• Organisation has operational credibility
• Organisation is aware of importance of coalitions
• Organisation maintains alliances
• Etc.

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Core capability 4 Adapt and self-renew

• Management understands shifting contexts
• Management has confidence to change
• Management encourages learning
• Etc.

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Core capability 5 Maintain consistency

• Mandate, vision and strategy are known and used
  to guide decision making
• Organisation has operating principles
• Consistency between ambition, vision, strategy
  and operations
• Etc.

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Implications

• Organisation, location specific validation and
  completion of indicators
• Need for context and organisation analysis
• Southern perspective

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Conclusion

• Context specific indicators
• based on generic set of
• principles