Guide to Evaluating Capacity Development Results

This set of guidance notes is designed to support practitioners and evaluators in conducting retrospective evaluations of a capacity development intervention or portfolio to assess and document results. Users will enhance their understanding of the capacity development process, of what works and what does not work in promoting change and to inform future programs. The standard M&E approach for assessing capacity development results has not been sufficient. These guidance notes are designed to complement and supplement good M&E practice to more effectively identify capacity development results. Typically, results-based M&E emphasizes the assessment of outcomes and impacts while also tracking inputs, activities and outputs to monitor implementation. A results chain or logic model is used to articulate the sequence from inputs to results.