Organizational
Capacity
Assessments
Conducting organizational capacity assessments to improve leadership, coordination, communication, and management through actionable, evidence-based recommendations.
Our Work
Open Development conducts assessments of public programs to strengthen their capacity to achieve their social mandates, working within existing resource and operating constraints and drawing on internal change agents. The approach draws from improvement science to develop actionable plans that strengthen organizational capacity, including:
Aligning the organization’s framing — the day-to-day norms and expectations for how the organization operates, as exemplified by its leadership — with its vision and mission
Improving the organization’s culture with regard to communication, knowledge sharing, teamwork, and engagement/motivation
Ensuring the organization’s systems function as intended--that the right resources are in the right place at the right time
Reinforcing the importance of investing in the capacity and performance of the organization’s human capital
Country Spotlight
Under the USAID HRH2030 Program, Open Development conducted organizational capacity assessments of National Malaria Control Programs in five francophone, west African countries: Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, and Togo. The assessments evaluated the management and coordination capacity with respect to the objectives and expected results set forth in each country’s National Strategic Malaria Plans. The subsequently developed action plans and recommendations have provided the National Malaria Control Programs with a roadmap to improvement and made them stronger candidates for consideration as Principal Recipients when applying for Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria grants.
Open Development Consultant Ms. Angelica Kiwummulo explains the workload analysis process at a workshop in Windhoek, Namibia (July 2023).
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