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Capacity building

Improving clients’ ability to demand, use, and generate evidence.

1 June 2021
Capacity building bolsters clients’ skills and knowledge to strategically use evidence and data to meet their goals.

Why capacity building?

Governments, non-profit organizations, and multilateral agencies often express their need for additional training and support to incorporate data and evidence into their decision-making. At IDinsight, capacity building1 is often a critical component of our extended, tailored Learning Partnerships.

IDinsight’s approach is one of co-creation and collaboration. We tailor our training and support to meet clients’ needs, working within their time and budget constraints.

Our work ranges from light-touch support to help clients interpret evaluation results, to intensive training on using monitoring systems, to support with hiring, and beyond. We often work closely with clients to identify their most pressing capacity needs. We go beyond one-off workshops to design opportunities for real-world, on-the-job skill-building.

Featured project:

As a part of our two-year engagement with UNICEF in the Philippines, IDinsight provided clients with the knowledge and skill-building to become consumers and demanders of evidence, empowering them to make data-driven decisions about the design, implementation, and management of their programs.

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Explore our methodologies

Learning partnerships

Learning partnerships are long-term often embedded engagements to answer important questions as they arise using a broad methodological toolkit.

Monitoring systems

Monitoring systems efficiently capture reliable data, providing visualization and analysis to identify triggers for action.

Preference elicitation

Preference elicitation in household surveys and lab-in-the-field experiments are designed to understand core beliefs and preferences.

Quick turnaround surveys

IDinsight recruits, trains, and supervises survey data collectors to conduct rapid telephone or in-person surveys.

Data science and engineering

IDinsight uses data science to support decision-makers to better predict, optimize, or model important program outcomes to amplify social impact.

Process evaluation

Process evaluations can help decision-makers understand if their program is running as expected.

Featured blogs, reports, and projects

Article

Service d’assistance WACIE: Un nouveau dispositif pour accompagner l’usage des données probantes en Afrique de l’Ouest

23 June 2021
Blog

WACIE Helpdesk: A new source of support for evidence-informed decision-making in West Africa

26 May 2021
Project

Transforming how the Indian government improves people’s lives

3 May 2021
Blog

Capacity building: What is it good for?

17 January 2020
More of our capacity building work
  1. 1. The terms “capacity building” and “capacity strengthening” have a complex history, and are imperfect labels for the services we offer. We strongly believe that a broad range of knowledge and skills have value and recognize our partners have high-level technical skills from which we can learn. However, we use these familiar terms so clients and funders are aware that we offer skill-building, on-the-job training, adult learning workshops, and other services around specialized expertise that may be useful to some clients.