Ref. Doc. Nr. 1: Institutional Assessment and Capacity Development: Why, what and how?

This note offers a conceptual framework for dealing with

1. institutional and capacity assessment; and

2. capacity development issues, mainly in the public sector areas.

It is particularly useful in the in the preparation of support to sector programmes and budget support exercises. More generally the objective of the note is to enable readers to engage in dialogue with stakeholders and specialists about issues regarding institutional assessment and capacity development, as well as support to capacity development, in design and implementation of sector or budget support operations. This publication has been partially replaced by the Toolkit on Capacity Development published in 2009 and updated in 2010.