Health Policy Project: Strengthening capacity in policy, advocacy, governance, and finance: A facilitator guide for organizational capacity assessments

The resource, developed by the Health Policy Project, is a self-assessment tool designed to align with an organization's mission concerning health policy, though the tool is useful more broadly outside the health sector.

The guide can be used to facilitate a participatory capacity assessment process that helps establish a baseline of organizational capacity, promotes dialogue and learning, and informs the development of a capacity-strengthening plan.

This process enables staff and stakeholders to discuss the organization's operations, strengths, and challenges in health policy-related work.

The guide is complemented by a Capacity Indicators Catalog, which outlines essential competencies for technical policy areas, and an OCA Results Spreadsheet, which generates an electronic report and visual representations of the assessment using a participatory scoring system.

The tool addresses the following areas:

• Accountability Systems
• Advocacy
• Data Analysis and Use
• Gender
• Health Financing
• Implementation Barriers
• Knowledge Translation
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Multisectoral Collaboration
• Networking and Coalition Building
• Policy Analysis
• Policy Dialogue
• Policy Monitoring
• Poverty
• Stigma and Discrimination
• Strategy Development