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EVALUATING CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT Experiences from Research and Development Organizations around the World Douglas Horton et al. ISNAR/IDRC/CTA 2003 ISBN 1-55250-111-6 188 pp. Disponible en français The international aid community is placing a growing emphasis on developing local capacity as the key to alleviating poverty and hunger in the developing world. Although ensuring the effectiveness of a capacity-building effort requires appropriate use of evaluation, few organizations have implemented a system for monitoring or evaluating the changes taking place during organizational development. In January 2000, ISNAR began the ambitious Evaluating Capacity Development Project, which aimed to improve capacity development efforts in research and development organizations through the use of evaluation. This book explains how the project used an action-learning approach, bringing together people from various countries and different types of organizations. As they conducted six evaluation studies over the course of 3 years, project participants learned a great deal about capacity development and the process of evaluation. The authors use examples and lessons drawn from the evaluation studies as a basis for making more general conclusions regarding how capacity-development efforts and evaluation can help organizations to achieve their missions. The ideas and examples given in this book move the field of evaluation forward significantly. The contributors have taken on board the concept that every evaluation of a capacity-development effort should contribute to the effort itself and, ultimately, to the organization’s performance. Too many evaluations are wasted in producing bulky reports that are seldom read, or that arrive too late to influence decisions. This book shows that a greater impact and a broader vision are both needed in theory and possible in practice. THE AUTHORS Douglas Horton, International System for National Agricultural Research, the Netherlands
Foreword Michael Quinn Patton - Author, Utilization-Focused Evaluation 2003 Acknowledgements 2003 About the Book 2003 Acronyms 2003 Chapter 1. The Evaluating Capacity Development Project: an Experiment in Evaluating Capacity Development 2003 Chapter 2. The Basics of Capacity, Organizational Capacity Development, and Evaluation 2003 Chapter 3. Why Managers should be Concerned with Organizational Capacity Development and its Evaluation 2003 Chapter 4. Towards a Holistic Approach to Organizational Capacity Development 2003 Chapter 5. Towards Partnership in Organizational Capacity Development 2003 Chapter 6. Approaches for Evaluating Organizational Capacity Development 2003 Chapter 7. Using and Benefiting from an Evaluation 2003 Annex: Summaries of the Evaluation Reports 2003 About the Authors 2003 Glossary 2003 References 2003 |
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