Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together

 

The guide tackles many topics, including investment approaches, appraisal of funding opportunities from the standpoints of opportunity assessment and funder capacity, funder-grantee power dynamics, and assessing impact. It blends data from interviews, focus groups, a survey, and a scan of existing literature to shed light on the funder-grantee relationship, which is a key to successful capacity building. The guide also introduces more than 30 pieces of online-only content related to capacity building and is accompanied by a curated collection of capacity-building resources from around the field.