The document discusses building organizational capacity through capacity building efforts. It explains that capacity building involves enhancing an organization's ability to govern itself, develop resources, forge community links, and deliver services to fulfill its mission. Capacity building requires changes which can be difficult, as people often resist change. However, making improvements to organizational systems through focusing on areas like culture, vision/leadership, learning, management, and external relationships can help organizations better accomplish their goals. Leadership support is important to champion capacity building and organizational change.

1. Capacity Building
and Change
KDDAUK - 2015
movement to an effective organisation that can deliver
social change and social justice
Based on Scot Evans (2013). Abridged, edited and additional material by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)

2. When you see this, its an action point
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

3. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

4. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

5. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
How do we accomplish these things?
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

6. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
How do we accomplish these things?
• By being INSPIRED, MOTIVATED, always
LEARNING and READY to CHANGE
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

7. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
How do we accomplish these things?
• By being INSPIRED, MOTIVATED, always
LEARNING and READY to CHANGE
• By Creating Our PROGRAMME of ACTIVITIES
and PROJECTS
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

8. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
How do we accomplish these things?
• By being INSPIRED, MOTIVATED, always
LEARNING and READY to CHANGE
• By Creating Our PROGRAMME of ACTIVITIES
and PROJECTS
• By working out our STRATEGIES to deliver
them
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

9. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
How do we accomplish these things?
• By being INSPIRED, MOTIVATED, always
LEARNING and READY to CHANGE
• By Creating Our PROGRAMME of ACTIVITIES
and PROJECTS
• By working out our STRATEGIES to deliver
them
• By building our organisation’s ABILITY and
each individual’s ABILITY to deliver them
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

10. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
How do we accomplish these things?
By building our organisation’s
ABILITY and each individual’s
ABILITY to deliver them
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

11. KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
ABILITY = CAPACITY
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

12. What Major Challenges Do
Organisations Say They Face?
 Development Efforts
 Enhancing the visibility / reputation of their organisation
 Funding
 Board development - recruiting, retaining, training effective board
members
 IT support
 Marketing / Social Media
 Staffing / Human Resources
 Facility / Space improvements
 Strategic Planning / Mission
 Staff Development
 Fundraising Plan
 Volunteer Recruitment
 Networking and collaboration
Responses from 197 not for profit organisations, representing a broad spectrum of Miami-Dade not for profits (2011)
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

13. What Major Challenges Does
KDDA UK Face?
 Organisational Development Efforts
 Enhancing the visibility / reputation of our organisation
 Funding
 Board development - recruiting, retaining, training effective board
members
 IT support
 Marketing / Social Media
 Staffing / Human Resources
 Facility / Space improvements
 Strategic Planning + Mission + Vision
 Staff Development
 Fundraising Plan
 Volunteer Recruitment
 Networking and collaboration
 WHAT OTHER CHALLENGES DO WE FACE?
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015), http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-
28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)

14. Organisational
Capacity
“an organisation’s abilities to govern and manage itself, to develop assets
and resources, to forge the right community links, and to deliver valued
services – all combining to meaningfully address its mission”
Dougherty & Mayer (2003)
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

15. Organisational
Capacity
“an organisation’s abilities to govern and manage itself, to develop assets
and resources, to forge the right community links, and to deliver valued
services – all combining to meaningfully address its mission”
Dougherty & Mayer (2003)
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

16. Organisational
Capacity
“an organisation’s abilities to govern and manage itself, to develop assets
and resources, to forge the right community links, and to deliver valued
services – all combining to meaningfully address its mission”
Dougherty & Mayer (2003)
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

17. Organisational
Capacity
“an organisation’s abilities to govern and manage itself, to develop assets
and resources, to forge the right community links, and to deliver valued
services – all combining to meaningfully address its mission”
Dougherty & Mayer (2003)
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

18. Organisational
Capacity
“an organisation’s abilities to govern and manage itself, to develop assets
and resources, to forge the right community links, and to deliver valued
services – all combining to meaningfully address its mission”
Dougherty & Mayer (2003)
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

19. Organisational
Capacity
“an organisation’s abilities to govern and manage itself, to develop assets
and resources, to forge the right community links, and to deliver valued
services – all combining to meaningfully address its mission”
Dougherty & Mayer (2003)
capacity-building
efforts can focus in
many different
organisational areas
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

20. Organisational
Capacity
“the combined influence of an organisation’s abilities to govern and
manage itself, to develop assets and resources, to forge the right
community links, and to deliver valued services – all combining to
meaningfully address its mission”
Dougherty & Mayer (2003)
capacity-building
efforts can focus on
many different
organisational areas
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015), http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-
28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)

21. ...or capacity building efforts can focus on our organisational systems
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

22. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational values,
characteristic behaviours, consciousness
(Butcher, et al, 2007)
...or capacity building efforts can focus on our organisational systems:
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

23. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational values,
characteristic behaviours, consciousness
Aspirations vision, mission, leadership
(Butcher, et al, 2007)
...or capacity building efforts can focus on our organisational systems:
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

24. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational values,
characteristic behaviours, consciousness
Aspirations vision, mission, leadership
Learning Systems
How we adapt to change, how we reflect on
experiences and learn lessons,
willingness to learn/train, belief in learning,
enabling systems, teaming
(Butcher, et al, 2007)
...or capacity building efforts can focus on our organisational systems:
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

25. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational values,
characteristic behaviours, consciousness
Aspirations vision, mission, leadership
Learning Systems
How we adapt to change, how we reflect on
experiences and learn lessons,
willingness to learn/train, belief in learning,
enabling systems, teaming
Management and
operations
system
strategy, structures, operations,
coordination, resources, systems, etc
(Butcher, et al, 2007)
...or capacity building efforts can focus on our organisational systems:
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

26. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational values,
characteristic behaviours, consciousness
Aspirations vision, mission, leadership
Learning Systems
How we adapt to change, how we reflect on
experiences and learn lessons,
willingness to learn/train, belief in learning,
enabling systems, teaming
Management and
operations
system
strategy, structures, operations,
coordination, resources, systems, etc
External
relationships
collaboration, networks, partnerships,
constituents & beneficiary engagement,
participation programmes
(Butcher, et al, 2007)
...or capacity building efforts can focus on our organisational systems:
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

27. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational values,
characteristic behaviours, consciousness
Aspirations vision, mission, leadership
Learning Systems
How we adapt to change, how we reflect on
experiences and learn lessons,
willingness to learn/train, belief in learning,
enabling systems, teaming
Management and
operations
systems
strategy, structures, operations,
coordination, resources, systems, etc
External
relationships
collaboration, networks, partnerships,
constituents & beneficiary engagement,
participation programmes
(Butcher, et al, 2007)
but many organisations are often exclusively
focused here, neglecting other critical systems
capacity building efforts can focus on our organisational systems:
Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

28. What would help?
 What are the KDDA UK’s most important
capacity building needs?
 Which capacity building needs should
we focus on?
 What do you believe would be the most
helpful ways to meet the KDDA UK’s
most important capacity building
needs?
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

29. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational
values,
characteristic behaviours,
consciousness
Aspirations vision, mission, leadership
Learning
Systems
How we adapt to change, how we
reflect on experiences and learn
lessons,
willingness to learn/train, belief in
learning, enabling systems, teaming
Management
and operations
system
strategy, structures, operations,
coordination, resources, systems, etc
External
relationships
collaboration, networks,
partnerships,
constituents & beneficiary
engagement, participation
programmes (Butcher, et al, 2007)
Which of these
are we good at?
Which of these
can we spend
time
improving ?
How much time
should we
spend on
capacity
building?
Based on Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)
capacity building efforts can focus on our organisation’s systems:

30. Welcoming Change
Capacity building: Applying knowledge and expertise to enhance
those things that contribute to organisational effectiveness Kibbe
(2004)
Building an
organisation’s capacity
involves making
changes
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

31. Welcoming Change
Capacity building: Applying knowledge and expertise to enhance
those things that contribute to organisational effectiveness Kibbe
(2004)
Building an
organisation’s capacity
involves making
changes
Making changes is
tough work, especially
at the beginning.
Everyone gets involved
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

32. Welcoming Change
Capacity building: Applying knowledge and expertise to enhance
those things that contribute to organisational effectiveness Kibbe
(2004)
Building an
organisation’s capacity
involves making
changes
Making changes is
tough work, especially
at the beginning.
Everyone gets involved
People don’t like
change and they resist
it
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

33. Welcoming Change
Capacity building: Applying knowledge and expertise to enhance
those things that contribute to organisational effectiveness Kibbe
(2004)
Building an
organisation’s capacity
involves making
changes
Making changes is
tough work, especially
at the beginning.
Everyone gets involved
People don’t like
change and they resist
it
But good change leads
to great improvements
and a more effective
organisation
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)

34. How do we build
our organisation’s
capacity?
Scot Evans (2013) abridged, edited and additional material by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)
1. KDDAUK Leaders come
on board, inspire and act
as CHAMPIONS of
capacity building, our
mission and change, using
their actions as example

35. How do we build
our organisation’s
capacity?
Scot Evans (2013) abridged, edited and additional material by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)
1. KDDAUK Leaders come
on board, inspire and act
as CHAMPIONS of
capacity building, our
mission and change, using
their actions as example
2. We assess KDDAUK’s
needs, assets and
readiness for change

36. How do we build
our organisation’s
capacity?
Scot Evans (2013) abridged, edited and additional material by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)
3. Get help ! (eg training, coaching, peer-networking,
resource materials, capacity-building-meetings)
1. KDDAUK Leaders come
on board, inspire and act
as CHAMPIONS of
capacity building, our
mission and change, using
their actions as example
2. We assess KDDAUK’s
needs, assets and
readiness for change

37. How do we build
our organisation’s
capacity?
1. KDDAUK Leaders come
on board, inspire and act
as CHAMPIONS of
capacity building, our
mission and change, using
their actions as example
2. We assess KDDAUK’s
needs, assets and
readiness for change3. We get help ! (eg training, coaching, peer-networking,
resource materials, facilitators for capacity-building-
meetings)
4. Direct financial support (funding applications for capacity
building)
Scot Evans (2013) abridged, edited and additional material by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)

38. “
”
In social justice organisations, big vision and
ambitious goals are motivating to the staff;
however, the lack of people capacity to reach
the scale of success organisations seek can end
up exhausting everyone.
The internal work – especially finding and
developing the right staff, overseeing financial
and organisational growth, and creating
diverse revenue streams – often consumed
young leaders who had little experience or
support in these areas. Many expressed the
need for better management skills as they
sought to implement internal organisational
changes to move towards their vision
Kim, H., & Kunreuther, F. (2012)
Based on Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)

39. We can focus
our capacity-
building efforts
in many
different
organisational
areas
Recap
• Aspirations
• Strategies
• Organisatio
nal Skills
• HR
• Organisatio
nal Structure
• Infrastructur
eScot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed
11/5/15)

40. Cultures
Ways of thinking, organisational
values,
characteristic behaviours,
consciousness
Aspirations vision, mission, leadership
Learning
Systems
How we adapt to change, how we
reflect on experiences and learn
lessons,
willingness to learn/train, belief in
learning, enabling systems, teaming
Management
and operations
system
strategy, structures, operations,
coordination, resources, systems, etc
External
relationships
collaboration, networks,
partnerships,
constituents & beneficiary
engagement, participation
programmes (Butcher, et al, 2007)
Which of these
are we good at?
Which of these
can we spend
time
improving ?
How much time
should we
spend on
capacity
building?
Based on Scot Evans (2013) abridged and edited by Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015),
http://www.slideshare.net/evanssd/session-3-capacity-28816037?from_action=save (last accessed 11/5/15)
..and Start Asking These Questions…..

41. Remember KDDA UK’s Reason to exist
• To chase our Vision
• To fulfil Our Mission
• To Fulfil Our Objectives
How do we accomplish these things?
• By being INSPIRED, MOTIVATED, always
LEARNING and READY to CHANGE
• By Creating Our PROGRAMME of ACTIVITIES
and PROJECTS
• By working out our STRATEGIES to deliver
them
• By building our organisation’s ABILITY and
each individual’s ABILITY to deliver them
Sahr O Fasuluku KDDA UK (2015)