UNDP Capacity Assessment Users Guide.pdf - Africa Adaptation ...

UNDP Capacity Assessment Methodology User‘s GuideEvaluateOverallQuestion:AdditionalQuestions:• Effective financial management and accounting procedures.• Use of budgets as a planning tool.• Accuracy and currency of fiscal data.• Operational efficiency of organizational subsystems for financial resourcemanagement.• Alignment of scope of program or other activities with the organization‘s financialresources.• Clarity and awareness of financial resource goals and priorities among leaders.• Transparency of budgeting, planning and allocation process.• Use of budgets as a monitoring tool. (Extent to which budgets/ financial targets aremet.)Does the organization have the capacity to ensure, through evaluation, proper use offinancial resources?Does the organization the capacity to:Ensure financial and budgetary transparency?Use modern financial controlling, e.g., through internal financial audits?Indicators • Measures of effective use of operating funds (to avoid exceeding any credit limit orunder-exploiting resources).• Frequency and results of financial audits and inspections (internal and external).• Measures of prudent and risk-conscious financial management.1.5 Institutional arrangements - Human resource management – Enabling environmentFunctional CapacitiesEngage StakeholdersOverall Do authorities have the capacity to develop HR policies that ensure multi-stakeholderQuestion: participation?Additional Do authorities have the capacity to:Questions: Engage domestic and external stakeholders in the process of developing HRpolicies?Indicators • Existence and effectiveness of dialogue mechanisms (and other links as appropriate)between and among the government and domestic and external stakeholders onissues relating to human resource management.• Quality (e.g., transparent, participatory, engaged, respective) and frequency ofdialogue between and among the government and domestic and externalstakeholders.• Degree to which ministers respect the independence and professionalism of theirsenior civil servants.• Degree to which senior civil servants are generally expected to provide ‗frank andfearless‘ advice to Ministers.Assess a Situation and Define Vision and MandateOverallQuestion:AdditionalQuestions:Do authorities have the capacity to frame, manage and interpret a comprehensivesituation analysis of and to create a vision for the country's HR assets and needs asthey relate to delivering the MDGs and other international goals and commitments?Do authorities have the capacity to:Undertake analytical work, including 1) data generation and disaggregation (gender,ethnicity, age) of population and demographic trends; 2) employment trends(unemployment, underemployment, quality of life, including in work environment andtheir impact on sustainable development processes, migration); and 3) crosssectoralHR supply and demand linkages?Identify HR capacity gaps in policy issues relating to human resource development,including understanding and applying the internationally agreed standards andnorms?48