Capacity Development

In 2005-2007, the G-rap Institutional Capacity Building programme worked with RAOs on two levels:

• organisational development (OD), which looks inside organisations;
• institutional development (ID) which sought to promote collaborative relations between RAOs.

The engendering process in G-RAP is an example of the latter.

Over the period September 2005 – December 2007, G-RAP’s ICB programme worked with 16 RAOs on OD issues while in total 19 RAOs were engaged in ID activities to a greater or lesser extent. All 19 RAOs completed an organisation development self-assessment which enabled each RAO to determine whether it would benefit from a full OD Assessment by an external facilitator.

While the programme was overviewed by an OD/ID practitioner, G-RAP outsourced OD implementation to various OD practitioners, e.g. to development organisations who had OD expertise (IBIS and SNV), as well as to individual experts. The RAOs themselves determined who they wished to work with.

While it is too early to determine the impact of the ICB programme, activities, outputs and outcomes were high. A comprehensive Evaluation of the 2005-2007 G-RAP ICB Programme is available in a concise bullet point version and in full version. Below you will find access to the G-rap Self-Assessment tools, relevant documentation and to various other useful OD tools.

1. Organisational assessment tables
3. DFID 2003 Inst. & Org. Change source book
4. Edgar Schein - Process Consultation Revisited
5. IDRC Short Guide for Institutional Assessment
6. POET-UNDP Participatory Organisational Evaluation Tool
7. Preziosi - Organ. Diagnosis Questionnaire ODQ
8. USAid 2000 capacity assessment
9. Warner Burke 2004 - Organisation Development
10. AudienceScapes 2010 - Communicating with policy makers about development issues. A guide for the International Development Community. Written by Hannah Bowen.