Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Acronyms -- 1. The Evaluating Capacity Development Project: an Experiment in Evaluating Capacity Development -- The ECD Project -- The ECD Project's guiding questions -- The evaluation studies -- Synopses of the evaluation reports -- Guide to further reading -- 2. The Basks of Capacity, Organizational Capacity Development, and Evaluation -- Developing capacity for improved performance -- What is organizational capacity development? -- Monitoring and evaluating capacity development -- Take-home messages -- Guide to further reading -- 3. Why Managers should be Concerned with Organizational Capacity Development and its Evaluation -- Why managers should be concerned with organizational capacity development -- Priorities for capacity development -- Why evaluate organizational capacity development efforts? -- Take-home messages -- Guide to further reading -- 4. Towards a Holistic Approach to Organizational Capacity Development -- Trends in capacity development -- Moving from a traditional to a more holistic approach to capacity development -- Steps to promote a holistic approach in the development of organizational capacity -- Take-home messages -- Guide to further reading -- 5. Towards Partnership in Organizational Capacity Development -- Moving beyond donor-recipient relationships -- Characterizing partnerships and implications for capacity development -- Elements of successful partnerships for capacity development -- Take-home messages -- Guide to further reading -- 6. Approaches for Evaluating Organizational Capacity Development -- Key issues to consider -- Preparing for the evaluation -- Principles for assuring the quality and use of the evaluation -- Getting into action: doing the evaluation -- Take-home messages -- Guide to further reading -- 7. Using and Benefiting from an Evaluation.

Why is evaluation use an issue? -- Factors influencing the use of evaluation results -- Benefits and uses of evaluation -- Unintended consequences of evaluation -- Take-home messages -- Guide to further reading -- Annex: Summaries of the Evaluation Reports -- Exploring capacity development in a rural development NGO in Bangladesh -- Towards strategic management in a Cuban agricultural research institute -- Understanding capacity development in a plant genetic resource center in Ghana -- Assessing organizational change in an agricultural faculty in Nicaragua -- Strengthening participatory research capacities in a Philippines root crops research center -- Expanding capacities in a rural development institute in Viet Nam -- Further information -- About the Authors -- Glossary -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- References.