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Author Lusthaus, Charles.

Title Institutional assessment : a framework for strengthening organizational capacity for IDRC's research partners / Charles Lusthaus, Gary Anderson, Elaine Murphy
Published Ottawa [Ont.] : International Development Research Centre, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 67 pages)
Series IDRC ; 771-X
IDRC (Series) ; 771-X.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: IDRC and Capacity Building""; ""IDRC's Mission: ""Empowerment through Knowledge""""; ""IDRC and Institutional Capacity Building""; ""Assessing Performance and Capacity""; ""Developing an Institutional Profile""; ""A Learning Partnership""; ""No Blueprint for Evaluation""; ""Institutional Assessment Methodology""; ""A Framework for Profiling Organizations""; ""Constructing the Institutional Profiling Process""; ""Key Forces in the External Environment""; ""Introduction""; ""Administrative/Legal Environment""; ""Technology Environment""
""Political Environment""""Economic Environment""; ""Social and Cultural Environments""; ""Stakeholder Environment""; ""Linking Environmental Forces to Key Questions""; ""Data Gathering""; ""Administrative/Legal Environment""; ""Technology Environment""; ""Political/Economic Environment""; ""Social and Cultural Environment""; ""Stakeholder Environment""; ""Data Gathering Methods and Sources""; ""Relevance to Capacity and Performance""; ""Organizational Motivation""; ""Introduction""; ""History""; ""Mission: Stated and Perceived""; ""Mission as Tool""; ""Culture""; ""Culture as Motivator""
""Incentives""""Information to Gather to Assess Motivation""; ""Mission""; ""Culture/Organizational Incentives""; ""Linking the Mission and Culture to Performance and Capacity""; ""Organizational Capacity""; ""Introduction""; ""Strategic Leadership""; ""Leadership""; ""Strategic Planning""; ""Governance""; ""Structure""; ""Niche Management""; ""Human Resources""; ""Other Core Resources""; ""Infrastructure""; ""Technology""; ""Finance""; ""Program Management""; ""Research Program Planning""; ""Research Program Implementation""; ""Research Program Monitoring and Evaluation""
""Research-Supporting Services""""Process Management""; ""Planning""; ""Problem-Solving and Decision-Making""; ""Communications""; ""Monitoring and Evaluation""; ""Inter-Institutional Linkages""; ""Networks""; ""Partnerships""; ""External Communications""; ""Organizational Performance""; ""Introduction""; ""Performance in Moving Towards Mission (Effectiveness)""; ""Performance in Relation to Efficiency""; ""Performance in Relation to Ongoing Relevance""; ""Measurement""; ""Conducting an Organizational Assessment""; ""Sources of Data""; ""Performance as It Relates to Capacity""; ""Conclusion""
Summary Empowerment through knowledge, environment, data gathering
Notes "May 1995"--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject International Development Research Centre (Canada)
SUBJECT International Development Research Centre (Canada) fast
Subject Organizational effectiveness.
Sustainable development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Interorganizational relations -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
International agencies -- Sociological aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Organizational effectiveness -- Evaluation
International agencies -- Evaluation -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Research institutes -- Administration
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Civilization
International agencies -- Sociological aspects
Interorganizational relations
Organizational effectiveness
Organizational effectiveness -- Evaluation
Research institutes -- Administration
Sustainable development
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037342
Subject Developing countries
Genre/Form Electronic books
Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Murphy, Elaine
Anderson, Gary
International Development Research Centre (Canada)
ISBN 9781552502921
1552502929