EVALUATION AND STUDIES DIVISION
PARTICIPATORY INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENTS
Participatory Institutional Assessment is a process which helps to reveal the different dimensions and crucial components of the institutions to enable the institution / organization to mature and sustain itself. PIA helps in identifying institution's strengths and limitations and eventually improving its institutional capacities in terms of both structural and functional aspects.
Assessment of an institution includes analysis of following aspects:
- Identity and image
- Clarity of focus in terms of vision, mission and purpose
- Programs - their appropriateness and delivery
- Awareness and involvement of various stakeholders
- Clarity of organizational structure and roles and their effective performance
- Administrative & Financial systems
- Capacities and mechanisms for their development
- Organizational culture
- Lateral Linkages
- Gender sensitivity within the organization and its programs
- Sustainability
Institutional assessment of the following institutions has been facilitated for:
CBOs
- Water users Association in Orissa
- Primary Farm Forestry Cooperatives formed by IFFDC in UP, MP
- Village Durbars and Panchayats in Meghalaya and Assam
- Village development Trusts and their federations promoted by Indo Canadian Agricultural Extension Project, U.P.
- Mahila Mandals and SHGs of several organizations
NGOs
- Purvanchal Grameen Chetana Samiti, Raghopur, Balia (Varanasi Diocese)
- Social Work Center of Arch diocese of Agra
- Support for Sustainable Society, Ranchi
- AIDA, Dimapur, Nagaland
- Shramik Bharti, Kanpur
- Arpana Trust, Gajnoi, Himachal Pradesh
- Lok Jagriti Kendra, Madhupur, Jharkhand
- UYRDC, Uttaranchal
- PRA Resource Center of SPEECH, Madurai
- BOSCO Reach Out, Assam
- 6 partner NGOs of CORDAID in Jharkhand and Bihar
