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OCA Suite of Tools
This series of Capacity Development Resource Guides was produced by the Health Policy Project as part of an Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) Suite of Tools. The guides highlight the key technical areas of expertise needed to effectively influence health policy design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Each guide identifies the specific skills, knowledge, and capacities that individuals and organizations should possess in the technical area. The guides also include individual and organization capacity indicators mapped to HPP’s Capacity Indicators Catalog, which can be used for facilitated organizational capacity assessments in the areas of policy, advocacy, governance, and finance. In addition, they provide illustrative activities and useful resources for designing and delivering capacity development technical assistance.
- Accountability Systems 272_AccountabilitySystemsResourceGuide.pdf 363.09 kb
- Advocacy 272_AdvocacyResourceGuide.pdf 334.61 kb
- Data Analysis and Use 272_DataAnalysisandUse.pdf 342.89 kb
- Gender 272_GenderResourceGuide.pdf 344.97 kb
- Health Financing 272_HealthFinancingResourceGuide.pdf 335.80 kb
- Implementation Barriers 272_ImplementationBarriersResourceGuide.pdf 404.21 kb
- Knowledge Translation 272_KnowledgeTranslationResourceGuideFinal.pdf 330.64 kb
- Monitoring and Evaluation 272_MEResourceGuide.pdf 311.79 kb
- Multisectoral Collaboration 272_MultisectoralCoordinationResourceGuide.pdf 330.66 kb
- Networking and Coalition Building 272_NetworkingandCoalitionBuilding.pdf 336.54 kb
- Policy Analysis 272_PolicyAnalysis.pdf 330.36 kb
- Policy Dialogue 272_PolicyDialogue.pdf 325.16 kb
- Policy Monitoring 272_PolicyMonitoringResourceGuide.pdf 333.39 kb
- Poverty 272_Poverty.pdf 336.17 kb
- Stigma and Discrimination 272_StigmaandDiscriminationResourceGuide.pdf 348.43 kb
- Strategy Development 272_StrategyDevelopment.pdf 336.16 kb
This brief describes the Health Policy Project’s perspective on systems change, the expertise needed for effective engagement in the policy process, implementation steps for capacity initiatives, and evaluation. It will be of particular use for those interested in capacity-strengthening approaches specific to policy, advocacy, governance, and finance. For sustained change, HPP encourages its partners to take a systems approach that addresses capacity needs at interrelated levels: individual, organizational, and systems.
For information on the project's implementation of this approach, see the Capacity Development Topics page, which also includes practical resources such as HPP's recently developed Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) Suite of Tools. The tools are specifically designed to assist organizations with building their capacity related to health policy by
- Establishing a baseline of the organization’s capacity in key areas
- Promoting organizational dialogue, learning, and standard setting
- Informing the development of a capacity-strengthening plan for addressing organizational priorities
- 168_CDBriefFINAL.pdf 240.84 kb
Part of an Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) Suite of Tools and developed by the Health Policy Project, the Strengthening Capacity in Policy, Advocacy, Governance, and Finance: A Facilitator Guide for Organizational Capacity Assessments is a facilitated self-assessment tool tailored to an organization’s mission as it relates to health policy. The participatory capacity assessment process supports an organization by
- Establishing a baseline of the organization’s capacity in key areas
- Promoting organizational dialogue, learning, and standard setting
- Informing the development of a capacity-strengthening plan for addressing organizational priorities
The process outlined in the guide supports staff members and other key stakeholders to share their perspectives about the organization’s functioning, strengths, and challenges to undertake work related to health policy. Accompanying the guide are a Capacity Indicators Catalog that identifies the key capacities needed to support relevant technical policy areas and an OCA Results Spreadsheet that creates an electronic report and visual depictions of the capacity assessment based on the indicators chosen from the catalog and a participatory scoring process.
- Capacity Indicators Catalog 373_CapacityIndicatorsCatalogFinal.xlsx 69.05 kb
- Modified Version (Russian) 373_CentralAsiaAssessmentToolModifiedRussian.pdf 837.92 kb
- 373_OCAGuideFINAL.pdf 1333.37 kb
- OCA Results Spreadsheet 373_OCAResultsSpreadsheet.xlsm 9572.70 kb