Training & e-learning
Institutional and Political Economy Context Scanning / Stakeholder Analysis Drivers of Change [in: FAO Learning Module 2. FAO Approaches to Capacity Development in Programming: Processes and Tools]
This module concerns integrating capacity development into programming and covers the assessment process, engagement with stakeholders and tracking capacity development. Tools are provided.
This module is the second in the series designed to improve Capacity Development (CD) approaches in projects and programmes of FAO. It includes examples and tools to support endogenous CD processes in the areas of FAO’s mandate. Practitioners also may draw on the other Learning Modules (see box 1) which cover tools from disciplines such as organization analysis and development, learning event planning, facilitation and instructional science.
Learning Module 2 is organized around five major themes: engaging with national/local actors; analysing the context and assessing capacity needs; measuring CD; and building sustainability. It also offers a toolkit including examples, methods and instruments.
Available tools and their corresponding page numbers in this module:
- Stakeholders’ mapping 46
- Interest – influence matrix 48
- Appreciative inquiry 50
- Guidelines for conversations to generate possibility and action 78
- Capacity assessments (A,B,C,D) 79
- Institutional and political economy context scanning 114
- Stakeholders’ analysis 118
- Drivers of change 120
- Capacity-focused problem tree 122
- Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Plan 124
- Outcome mapping 129
- Most significant change 134
- Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Survey (KAP) 141
- Checklist for sustainability 143
- Template for Capacity Assessment Planning 114
- Examples of Capacity results in Food Security and Nutrition at Country Level 118
- Drivers of change 120
- Acting On Food Insecurity And Malnutrition 145