Organizational capacity building: Addressing a research and practice gap

Sobeck, Joanne; Agius, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2007.04.003

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“…Increasing awareness and knowledge among service providers is an important first step in capacity building (Backer, 2001;Sobeck & Agius, 2007;Waites & Bearon, 2007). This is especially true for the Detroit area and for small organizations that typically have few resources.…”

Section: Lesson One: Importance Of Partnershipmentioning

confidence: 97%

Enhancing Aging Services through Evidence-Based Health Promotion: A Training for Service Providers

Martin

Waites

Hopp

et al. 2013

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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During the next several decades, increasing numbers of older Americans will suffer chronic illnesses and many will face challenges due to growing racial and economic health disparities. Agencies serving older adults need to respond by creating and promoting evidence-based health promotion (EBHP) practices to address the growing diversity among older adults in urban areas. One such agency, the Detroit Area Agency on Aging recently partnered with the Wayne State University School of Social Work to conduct an EBHP educational program for service providers. The educational program used information from the National Council on Aging Center for Healthy Aging, the reach, effectiveness/efficacy, adoption, implementation, and maintenance (RE-AIM) model, and the National Wellness Institute. Survey respondents found that the interaction with other participants was beneficial and helped them to conceptualize EBHP as a new way of thinking about service delivery. Participants learned practical lessons about implementing a training program on evidence-based practice and additional steps are offered to increase the uptake of EBHP practices by older adult service providers.

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Section: Lesson One: Importance Of Partnershipmentioning

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Enhancing Aging Services through Evidence-Based Health Promotion: A Training for Service Providers

Martin

Waites

Hopp

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Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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“…The model recognizes that sustainability for health prevention projects requires two key components: (1) the infrastructure capacity to ensure an adaptive prevention system and (2) an innovation that will continue to effectively meet the needs of the intended beneficiaries and stakeholders (Johnson et al, 2004). The model sees the processes of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and reassessment/modification as an ongoing cycle through which readiness for sustainability-adequate infrastructure and an innovation that has been confirmed to deliver the desired results-is achieved (Johnson et al, 2004;Cassidy and Leviton, 2006;Sobeck and Agius, 2007).…”

Section: Sustainability Of Capacity Buildingmentioning

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Sustainability of NGO capacity building in southern Africa: successes and opportunities

Humphries

Gómez

Hartwig

2011

Health Planning & Management

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Despite an increase in organizational capacity building efforts by external organizations in low and middle income countries, the documentation of these efforts and their effects on health programs and systems remains limited. This paper reviews key frameworks for considering sustainability of capacity building and applies these frameworks to an evaluation of the sustainability of an AIDS non-governmental organization (NGO) capacity building initiative. From 2004-2007 Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation's Secure the Future(TM) initiative in southern Africa funded a five country program, the NGO Training Institute (NGOTI), to build capacity of NGOs working to address HIV/AIDS. Lessons learned from this project include issues of ownership, the importance of integrating planning for sustainability within capacity-building projects, and the value of identifying primary capacity-building objectives in order to select sustainability strategies that are focused on maintaining program benefits. Sustainability for capacity building projects can be developed by discussing key issues early in the planning process with all primary stakeholders.

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“…Research around ECB has, over the last decade and more, attempted to address the challenges and gaps of ECB measurement (cf. LaFond et al 2002;Lucas 2013;Sobeck & Agius 2007;Wandersman 2014); however, the problem in practice is that what is measured is not helpful and does not contribute to advancing the discourse on ECB. Taylor-Ritzler et al (2013) acknowledge that there is a growing interest among practitioners and scholars in measuring the impact of ECB in organisations.…”

Section: Measuring Evaluation Capacity Building and The Use Of Findingsmentioning

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Measuring the effect of Evaluation Capacity Building Initiatives in Africa: A review

Morkel

Ramasobana

2017

African Evaluation Journal

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Background: The growing demand for evidence to support policy decisions, guide resource allocation and demonstrate results has elevated the need for expertise in monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Despite the mushrooming of short courses in M&E, their impact on improving the capacity to meet the demand has not been adequately and comprehensively measured or evaluated. The purpose of this article was to highlight the need for improving the measurement of evaluation capacity building (ECB) to better understand what works in building M&E capacity in Africa.Objectives: This article provides important insights into the need for empirical and rigorous measurement of ECB interventions and their role in strengthening evaluation practice.Method: The study was primarily a desktop review of existing literature, corroborated by a survey of a few senior representatives of organisations responsible for capacity building across the African continent.Results: The review found that there remains little empirical evidence that indicates whether ECB processes, activities and outcomes are ultimately effective. There is also very little empirical evidence that helps to interpret how change happens, and how this may shape ECB efforts. Training is acknowledged as only one element of ECB, and there is a need for a multi-pronged approach to ECB.Conclusion: Much more empirical and rigorous research is needed to build a clear understanding of what conditions are needed in ECB in Africa to strengthen evaluation practice. This article is useful for guiding further research into measuring the effect of ECB, as well as implementing more effective models of ECB towards strengthening evaluation practice in Africa.

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Organizational capacity building: Addressing a research and practice gap

Cited by 82 publications

References 12 publications

Enhancing Aging Services through Evidence-Based Health Promotion: A Training for Service Providers

Enhancing Aging Services through Evidence-Based Health Promotion: A Training for Service Providers

Sustainability of NGO capacity building in southern Africa: successes and opportunities

Measuring the effect of Evaluation Capacity Building Initiatives in Africa: A review

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