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Measuring and Assessing Capacity: A Landscape Review
May 25, 2022 / ReportThis landscape review was developed for MOMENTUM, a major USAID-supported health sector program, but is of interest to all capacity development practitioners. The review describes different levels and types of capacity that can be measured; clarifies the distinction between capacity and performance; identifies key capacity measurement tool types; and, assesses the suitability of different tool
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Participatory Systems Approaches to Advocacy in Nigeria: A Three-Volume Series
January 8, 2020 / ToolkitFrom 2014 to 2018 the Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement (SACE) project in Nigeria sought to build a stronger, more resilient, and more nimble Nigerian civil society by strengthening the capacities of civil society actors to form common agendas, coordinate strategies, align outcome measurements, and share knowledge. SACE organized 18 clusters of
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Mapping Non-State Actors in Organizational Network Analysis for the Tanzanian Agricultural Sector: The AgriNSA Map Tanzania
February 20, 2016 / UndefinedThe AgriNSA Map Tanzania initiative emphasized systems-based learning and organizational network analysis within the country’s agricultural sector. The project aimed to map and analyze relationships among various organizations involved in agriculture, identifying key actors, areas of collaboration, and the dynamics of their interactions. Root Change played a pivotal role in this initiative by conducting the
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Serbian Civil Society: Embracing a Systems Perspective
April 13, 2014 / ReportRoot Change, in partnership with ISC Serbia and funded by USAID, led the Civil Society Forward (CSF) program to enhance the effectiveness of Serbian civil society by introducing and testing new approaches to coalition building and network strengthening. Root Change launched STARNET Serbia, an online platform that maps and visualizes professional relationships among civil society
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New Directions in Local Capacity Development: Embracing a Systems Perspective
November 19, 2013 / ReportThis report details the methods used and findings from a systems analysis Root Change conducted as part of the USAID Learning Agenda on Local Organization Capacity Development. Organizational network analysis (ONA) was used to better understand how the local capacity development ecosystem in Nepal and Tanzania impacted capacity development outcomes.
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Fulfilling the Promise: How National Societies Achieve Sustainable Organizational Development, A Multi-Country Study
August 19, 2011 / ReportRoot Change worked with the International Federation of Red Cross, Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the American Red Cross to study National Society Organizational Development. The study, aimed at identifying which capacity-building investments yield the highest returns, understand how capacity is built at the local level, and determine why capacity strengths and weaknesses exist, involved
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Root Change Launches the Innovation Scouts Program
October 16, 2010 / SnapshotThe Innovation Scouts program, developed by Root Change, leverages a global network of practitioners and web-based tools to identify and support promising investment opportunities in the social enterprise sector in countries such as Vietnam and Tanzania. These “Scouts” are business development service (BDS) providers and indigenous social investment funds trained
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Linking NGOs with Capacity Services
September 15, 2009 / ReportRoot Change has used its LINCS (Linking NGOs with Capacity Services) methodology in a number of countries, such as Zambia and Bolivia. LINCS is a unique and proven approach to mapping the needs and capacities of key actors and connecting local demand for capacity-building services with local supply. Root Change finds that building upon the
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