A Framework for Organizational Development

A field manual for strengthening small organisations, built from a real capacity development programme. It covers governance, planning, financial systems and the sequencing that keeps the work from collapsing halfway.

Agbey, Tsikata and Childress

The UNDP method for assessing institutional capacity, laid out step by step with the supporting formats. It works at three levels, the enabling environment, the organisation and the individual, and shows how they interact.

United Nations Development Programme

A self assessment instrument an organisation runs on itself rather than having done to it. It covers governance, management, finance, programmes and human resources, and turns the scores into an action plan.

Catholic Relief Services

A real five year organisational development strategy, published by the institution that wrote it for its own staff. Useful as a worked example of what such a document contains and how commitments get phrased.

University of Glasgow

A brief on how nonprofits move from collecting data for reporting to actually learning from it. It defines what a learning culture is and names the practices that build one.

Mary K. Winkler and Saunji D. Fyffe