Capacity Building: Tools

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Capacity Building Tools Approaches for ME
Field Officers

• Roger Myrick, PhD
• UCSF/CDC

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Purpose

• To present sample capacity assessment tools
  discuss strategies for evaluation the ME Field
  Officer Program as a capacity building
  intervention

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ME Capacity Building Tools Assessment
Evaluation

• Background
• Need for capacity assessment tools
• Need for tools to be field tested
• Need for simplicity of tools
• CDC USAID collaborated on the development of
  pilot training assessment evaluation tools for
  individual organizational levels
• Potential for using more broadly as capacity
  assessment evaluation tools for ME Field
  Officer Program
• Tools need tailoring, indicator development
  pilot testing
• Tools Developed
• Capacity Assessment Tool (see tool box)
• Capacity Evaluation Tool (see tool box))
• Use of Tools

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Evaluation of Capacity Building for ME Field
Officers Program

• Goal To develop and provide mechanisms for the
  evaluation of the ME Field Officer Program as a
  capacity building intervention
• Component One Orientation Evaluation
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Satisfaction
• Component Two Baseline Long Term Follow-up
• Protocol measures to be developed
  collaboratively among ME field officers,
  headquarter university staff
• Component Three Proposed Multi-Agency Country
  Case Studies

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Sample Assessment of Capacity Assessment for
Field Officer Program
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Group Discussion/Feedback

• Current capacity needs concerns
• Issues related to evaluation of capacity
• Capacity areas that need to be measured/and
  responded to

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Next Steps

• Meeting with stakeholders to develop protocol and
  tools for assessing and measuring capacity
  developed in the context of the Field Officers
  Program (September 2004)