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Toolkits

This section assembles tools to assist in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development programs and projects. These tools are intended to help countries and country teams streamline tasks, utilize resources fully, maximize productivity and achieve national goals.  

 

Rapid Results Approach (PDF     PDF 1.43 mb)
The Rapid Results Approach (RRA) is a results-focused implementation and learning process aimed at jump-starting major change efforts and enhancing implementation capacity. This approach can complement and reinforce the traditional training-oriented, knowledge-transfer approach to capacity enhancement.

Monitoring & Evaluation
The international consensus on monitoring and evaluation is that better production and utilization of statistics and diagnostics remains critical to achieving the Millenium Development Goals. This site provides resources related to monitoring and evaluation of capacity development interventions.    

Public Expenditure Management Toolkit
The Public Expenditure Management Toolkit provides an approach for assessing public expenditure institutional (rules of the game) arrangements. It focuses on the three levels of expenditure outcome: aggregate fiscal discipline, strategic and intersectoral allocations, and operational efficiency and service delivery.

External Links

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Handbook on Capacity Assessment Methodologies (UNDP)
Among the components of the capacity building process, the capacity assessment is the least well developed or understood. Most technical assistance programs and projects focus on meeting capacity needs, without undertaking the analysis that would normally be required to ensure that the solution is the most appropriate one in the circumstances. This report is the result of the UNDP Management Development and Governance Division's (MDGD) capacity assessment methodology review.

Capacity Development Resource Book (UNDP)
Provides a wealth of resources on capacity development including CD tools and methodology, lessons and guiding principles and a technical review paper. 

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Capacity Development Toolkit
CIDA's Capacity Development Tool Kit was developed in response to needs expressed by CIDA officers for strategies and tools to help them make operational sense of Capacity Development.





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