Three Capacity Analysis Framework

3 Capacity Assessment Framework

3.1 Choice of Analytical Framework

Development practitioners use a wide variety of methods to explore different tasks and situations to support development programming. In this regard, there exist a number of analytical frameworks which include the Department for International Development (DFID 2003 ) of Promoting Institutional and Organizational Development; the European Commission (EU 2005 ) Institutional Assessment and Capacity Development framework; Institutional Capacity and Methodologies developed by the World Bank for macro-level assessment as well as Towards Effective Capacity Development (UNESCO 2013 ). In other words, although there are different options for capacity assessment frameworks, the United

From the same source, capacity assessments can take many forms. Capacity assessments can be used to analyze the “enabling environment” or to assess a specific sector, interconnected organizations, or an individual organization (UNDP 2008). It can also set the baseline for continuous monitoring and evaluation of progress against relevant indicators and help create a solid foundation for long-term planning, implementation, and sustainable

According to the UNDP framework, capacity development process involves: 1) Engage stakeholders on capacity development; 2) Assess capacity assets and needs; 3) Formulate a capacity development response; 4) Implement a capacity development response; and 5) Evaluate capacity development. Accordingly, our focus was on the second and the third steps, the rest are beyond the scope of this assessment. The proposed UNDP's capacity assessment framework has three broad dimensions:

a) Points of entry: UNDP recognizes that capacity resides on different levels; the enabling environment, the organizational, and the individual. Each of these levels can be the point of entry for a capacity assessment. It is specifically tailored to the enabling environment and the organizational level.

b) Core issues: These are the four capacity issues that UNDP's empirical evidence suggests to be the most commonly encountered across sectors and levels of capacity: 1) institutional arrangements; 2) leadership; 3) knowledge; and 4) accountability. Not every assessment needs to cover all four, but a capacity assessment team should at least consider all of them as it defines the scope of an assessment. They can be amended based on the needs of the client and the