Evaluation of Indonesia Capacity Building Supports
An evaluation to inform and improve capacity-strengthening supports in Indonesia focused on civil society strength and CSO programming.
Background
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ran Civil Society and Leadership (CSL) with the intermediaries developing and managing CSL's capacity-building projects. The Foundation began a new phase of civil society capacity building. Thus, they aimed to learn from their existing support. Therefore, the Packard Foundation wanted to conduct an evaluation to: (1) inform and improve the Foundation's capacity-strengthening supports in Indonesia focused on civil society strength and (2) provide valuable data for their intermediary partners to improve CSO programming.
Approach
As an overall methodology, we addressed the learning questions and the breadth of the programming at three interrelated levels. Each level was designed to ensure balanced participation and inclusion of voices and perspectives of the programme's stakeholders while also attending to the intersectional nexus of power dynamics at different scales. At a broad level, this evaluation took a look at the CSL's strategy and theories of change (TOC) that underpinned the programming and activities. At an intermediate level, we examined how the broad strategies and TOC were related to the programme implementation and how the intersections of the funding and programme implementation contributed to the envisioned change and expected results. At a specific level, we probed deeper into the more particular contexts and factors, or the 'hows' and 'whys,' that shaped and mediated the results, successes, challenges, and participants' experience of the selected activities in the programme. All were approached and analysed with regards to Indonesia's broader contexts of civil society dynamics.