Learning purposefully in capacity development: Why, what and when to measure?

Ortiz Taylor 2009 Learning purposefully in CD IIEP Pub.pdf 2.37 MB

Explores predominant ways of thinking about M&E, and discusses whether these are able to grasp the unique nature of M&E of CD. M&E should be able to measure how CD contributes to wider development processes and to sustainable capacity, in addition to measuring the quality of the CD process itself. Breaking down the concept of CD may be useful in order to observe CD ends. It may also be useful to gear CD more toward nurturing long term, even unintended outcomes. The notion of standing capacity is useful in order to measure capacity beyond pre-programmed immediate performance.

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Author(s): Alfredo Ortiz and Peter Taylor