By D. Horton
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Information was cross-checked through a review of relevant documentation available from the Faculty's archives. The evaluation study helped FARENA understand how an organizational, rather than a technical, approach to its restructuring and curricula reform processes might have helped it improve its overall performance. Throughout the restructuring process, key organizational capacity issues were neglected. For example, poor strategic planning made it difficult for the Faculty to prioritize what activities to undertake and 14 1 Evaluating Capacity Development Chapter I: The ECD Project when.
In response to a suggestion by the University administration to share the evaluation more widely, the evaluation team organized a series of seminars and workshops aimed at various constituents of the University. This also allowed the team to clarify the nature and purpose of the evaluation in light of various erroneous interpretations of the evaluation's agenda. Parallel evaluations have been carried out with other UPWARD partners, drawing from the initial experience of the evaluation with the Root Crops Center.
The exter- • nal environment in which the organization | "^t all capacity development operates also has a strong influence on its | necessarily improves performance. performance. " Ios(§ de Souza Silva environment, and the social and cultural ' 1 /"i/"\n1~ovi" Iin CUIlLCAl I I urni^n W l l l d l 1"no LI 1C /^fnoniToti*^\n Ul^dlll/,allDII /"\T"\or UJJCI" ates. For example, legal systems include the policy, laws, and regulations of the organization. The political environment could include factors such as general political stability in a country or political support that 1 Quotes throughout the book are recorded comments from a variety of ECD Project workshops that took place between 2000 and 2002.