Institutional Assessment

Institutional analysis goes beyond project or program monitoring and evaluation, to looking at the organization as a whole. It includes analysing the motivation behind the establishment of the organizations; its purpose, objectives and mode of operation; its performances and results (outputs, outcomes and impacts); their strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation; their stakeholders and their capacity to influence agriculture policy, practices, investment and innovation systems, the M&E frameworks, and how they incentivize change. The analysis also captures what should be strengthened in the context of the organization (given its strengths and challenges) and the collective institutional architecture required to support institutional alignment/ arrangement and provide for more effective and efficient operations, future investment portfolio, programmatic design, governance structure, partnership models and strategic direction.