Field guide on Participatory Organizational Self Assessment for Development (POSAD)

Draft of a guide due out in January 2000 which is designed to help organisations recognise their own potential and decide for themselves how to best address the challenges they face. It uses participatory methods and tools to enable organisations to assess their strength and weaknesses, reflect on their performance, learn from experience, identify priorities for program development and strengthen their organisational capacity. It is not a recipe to follow, but aims to give an understanding of the underlying concepts of capacity building and participatory action learning so that the reader can adapt the exercises and methods presented, or invent new ones.