Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

Making Evaluations of

Capacity Development Programs More Influential

Fiona Kotvojs: fiona.kotvojs@bigpond.com and

Rosalind Hurworth: r.hurworth@unimelb.edu.au

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

Capacity Development Evaluation Experience

• Mine

• The literature

• This research

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

“One of the biggest problems we have is that we are not producing

the sort of information that is useful”

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

Methodology

• Testing the CDE Framework

• Utilisation focussed approach

• Intended user groups

• 51 interviews

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

Capacity & Capacity Development

The process of developing competencies and capabilities in individuals, groups, organisations, sectors or countries which will lead to sustained or self generating performance improvement

Capacity

Capacity

The ability of people, organisations & society as a whole to manage their affairs successfully.

Capacity development

Ability

Process

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

Key Questions to Answer

M&EAdviserMgrPartnerDonorUser Group M&EAdviserMgrPartnerDonorUser Group

XXXXXWhat were the changes?

XXXXXWhat were the changes?

XXHow did the change occur?

XXHow did the change occur?

XXWhat lessons were learnt?

XXWhat lessons were learnt?

XHas the objective been achieved?

XHas the objective been achieved?

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Development Assistance Committee (DAC) criteria

• Relevance.

• Effectiveness.

• Efficiency.

• Impact.

• Sustainability.

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

Implications

• Development Assistance Committee (DAC) criteria

• Use of evaluation

• Evaluation for whom

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

I want to know what changed,

why did it change,

what else was going on in the environment.

If you have this information,

you can form a judgement.

Kurrajong Hill, Dignams Creek, Narooma 2546 NSW

Environmental influences

Capacity & Capacity Development

Capacity

Capacity

Capacity development strategy

Ability

Process = Capacity

Development