Adapting an organisational capacity assessment tool to meet the needs of both the donor and civil society organisations in Papua New Guinea

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In global efforts to address poverty, civil society organisations such as community groups, local associations, and non-government organisations are important players alongside government and the private sector.There is a general consensus within both the international donor community and the civil society sector that strengthening the organisational capacity of these groups will assist them to possess greater legitimacy and influence.What is contested is how donors can support civil society organisations to monitor and evaluate their capacity in a way that is useful for both the organisation and the donor.Influencing this discourse is debate over the merit of strengths-based approaches for organisational development (Cooperrider and Whitney 2005; Gray 2009), and increasing recognition of: the impact of the power differential between the assessor and the assessed (Reeler 2007); the complexity of capacity development (Brinkerhoff and Morgan 2010); and the limitations of baselines (Kelly

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