Guidelines for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity Building A forthcoming INTRAC Occassional Paper. by Rick James, at intrac@malawi.net This paper will look at three levels: 1. The capacity building intervention, 2. Internal organisational changes, 3. External changes at the beneficiary level. See INTRAC Ontrac newsletter No. 18 May 2001 for further details. Order by email via intrac@gn.apc.org) (Posted 12/5/01)

PS: (08/06/02) Description of this book given by INTRAC in 2002: Practical Guidelines for the Monitoring and Evaluation of CapacityBuilding: Experiences from Africa Rick James OPS No. 36, 2OOI, 42 pages, ISBN 1-897748-64-7, £8.95 "Capacity building and monitoring and evaluation have become two of the most important priorities of the development community during the last decade. Yet they have tended to operate in relative isolation from each other. In particular capacity building programmes have been consistently weak in monitoring the impact of their work. This publication aims to help NGOs and donors involved in capacity-building develop appropriate, cost-effective and practical systems for monitoring and evaluation. While not underestimating the complexity of this task, this publication puts forward some practical guidelines  for designing monitoring and evaluation systems based on experiences with three organisations in different parts of Africa.