Monthly Archives: July 2023

Organizational Capacity Assessment Process: Part 2

By Yitbarek Woldetensay, Chelsie Kuhn, and Alison Harrell Introduction In Part 1 of this blog series, we described an Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA), why we conduct an OCA, and how to prepare for the OCA process. In this Part 2 blog post, we will describe how to conduct organizational capacity gap identification (including OCA workshop

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Why Embeddedness Is Crucial For Use-Focused Developmental Evaluation Support

By Esrael Woldeeyesus Introduction “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.” – Albert Einstein In other words, solutions are only as good as the understanding of the problem. The level of detail we know about the problem, such as

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