Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations
The international aid community is placing a growing emphasis on developing the capacity of local organizations as the key to alleviating poverty and hunger in the developing world. Ensuring the effectiveness of a capacity building effort requires the appropriate use of evaluation. Yet few organizat...
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International Service for National Agricultural Research
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| author | Horton, Douglas Alexaki, Anastasia Bennett-Lartey, Samuel Brice, Kim N. Campilan, Dindo Carden, Fred Souza Silva, José de Le Thanh Duong Khadar, Ibrahim Maestrey Boza, Albina Kayes Muniruzzaman, Imrul Perez, Jocelyn Somarriba Chang, Matilde Vernooy, Ronnie Watts, Jamie |
| author_browse | Alexaki, Anastasia Bennett-Lartey, Samuel Brice, Kim N. Campilan, Dindo Carden, Fred Horton, Douglas Kayes Muniruzzaman, Imrul Khadar, Ibrahim Le Thanh Duong Maestrey Boza, Albina Perez, Jocelyn Somarriba Chang, Matilde Souza Silva, José de Vernooy, Ronnie Watts, Jamie |
| author_facet | Horton, Douglas Alexaki, Anastasia Bennett-Lartey, Samuel Brice, Kim N. Campilan, Dindo Carden, Fred Souza Silva, José de Le Thanh Duong Khadar, Ibrahim Maestrey Boza, Albina Kayes Muniruzzaman, Imrul Perez, Jocelyn Somarriba Chang, Matilde Vernooy, Ronnie Watts, Jamie |
| author_sort | Horton, Douglas |
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| description | The international aid community is placing a growing emphasis on developing the capacity of local organizations as the key to alleviating poverty and hunger in the developing world. Ensuring the effectiveness of a capacity building effort requires the appropriate use of evaluation. Yet few organizations have systematically monitored or evaluated organizational development processes. In January 2000, ISNAR began its ambitious ""Evaluating Capacity Development"" project, which aims to improve capacity development efforts in research and development organizations through evaluation. This Briefing Paper explains how the project used an action-learning approach, bringing together people from various countries and different types of organizations. These people conducted six evaluation studies over the course of three years, learning a great deal about capacity development and evaluation in the process. One of the key findings was the importance of involving staff and stakeholders in the evaluation process. A participatory approach fosters commitment to building the future of an organization and can speed up decision making. As people ""learn by doing"", they strengthen their own capacity for evaluation and are motivated to pass their knowledge on to others. When conducted in a participatory and structured way, evaluation can make a substantial contribution to improving overall organizational performance. |
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| language | Inglés |
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| spelling | CGSpace1362562024-01-16T12:42:42Z Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations Horton, Douglas Alexaki, Anastasia Bennett-Lartey, Samuel Brice, Kim N. Campilan, Dindo Carden, Fred Souza Silva, José de Le Thanh Duong Khadar, Ibrahim Maestrey Boza, Albina Kayes Muniruzzaman, Imrul Perez, Jocelyn Somarriba Chang, Matilde Vernooy, Ronnie Watts, Jamie management The international aid community is placing a growing emphasis on developing the capacity of local organizations as the key to alleviating poverty and hunger in the developing world. Ensuring the effectiveness of a capacity building effort requires the appropriate use of evaluation. Yet few organizations have systematically monitored or evaluated organizational development processes. In January 2000, ISNAR began its ambitious ""Evaluating Capacity Development"" project, which aims to improve capacity development efforts in research and development organizations through evaluation. This Briefing Paper explains how the project used an action-learning approach, bringing together people from various countries and different types of organizations. These people conducted six evaluation studies over the course of three years, learning a great deal about capacity development and evaluation in the process. One of the key findings was the importance of involving staff and stakeholders in the evaluation process. A participatory approach fosters commitment to building the future of an organization and can speed up decision making. As people ""learn by doing"", they strengthen their own capacity for evaluation and are motivated to pass their knowledge on to others. When conducted in a participatory and structured way, evaluation can make a substantial contribution to improving overall organizational performance. 2003-09 2024-01-04T07:47:47Z 2024-01-04T07:47:47Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136256 en Open Access application/pdf International Service for National Agricultural Research D. Horton, A. Alexaki, S. Bennett-Lartey, K.N. Brice, D. Campilan, F. Carden, J. de Souza Silva, L.T. Duong, I. Khadar, A. Maestrey Boza, I. Kayes Muniruzzaman, J. Perez, M. Somarriba Chang, R. Vernooy, and J. Watts. 2003. International Service for National Agricultural Research; Canada: International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Netherlands: ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). |
| spellingShingle | management Horton, Douglas Alexaki, Anastasia Bennett-Lartey, Samuel Brice, Kim N. Campilan, Dindo Carden, Fred Souza Silva, José de Le Thanh Duong Khadar, Ibrahim Maestrey Boza, Albina Kayes Muniruzzaman, Imrul Perez, Jocelyn Somarriba Chang, Matilde Vernooy, Ronnie Watts, Jamie Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations |
| title | Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations |
| title_full | Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations |
| title_fullStr | Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations |
| title_short | Developing and Evaluating Capacity in Research and Development Organizations |
| title_sort | developing and evaluating capacity in research and development organizations |
| topic | management |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136256 |
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