Approaches to Organisational Assessments - a summary

There are many assessment tools to analyse existing capacities ranging from individual performance and organisational capacity to the analysis of the capacities related to complex multi-actor collaboration and the quality of Civil Society. The value of any particular assessment tools can be determined by an adequate fit between its purpose and scope, the inclusiveness of the assessment process, the quality of interpretation and judgment of scores, and what value is ascribed to the follow-up.  The attached notes are a draft summary of a selection of six different approaches.