FHI 360



Tool 7A: Capacity-building needs assessment

There are several ways to conduct a needs assessment and gap analysis. The aim is to collect information from your target audience (in this case stakeholders and research staff members) about their current capacity and gaps in their relevant knowledge and skills. This will help you to design workshops and trainings, and identify topics for groups. To gather this information, you can use individual interviews, focus-group discussions, workshops, or surveys and questionnaires. This tool provides a basic questionnaire that can be adapted for your circumstances. You can also use the tool to help develop questions for focus-group discussions, interviews and workshops.

Use this tool to begin a discussion with stakeholders, partners and the research team about capacity and potential capacity-building needs. Ask organizations or stakeholder groups how they would score themselves in each category. (Adapted from: Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (CORE) Initiative. CBO/FBO capacity analysis: A tool for assessing and building capacities for high quality responses to HIV/AIDS. Washington, DC: CORE Initiative; 2005.)

Organization/group: ___________________________________________________________

Date: ___________________________________________________

Assessment by: __________________________________________

Needs assessment

|Question |Capacity-building score |

| |1 |2 |3 |4 |

|HIV and AIDS knowledge |What do stakeholders, |A few people know basic|People know the basic |HIV and AIDS issues are|HIV and AIDS issues are|

| |partners, and the |facts about HIV such as|level of knowledge |well understood (such |well understood; people|

| |research team |methods of |needed to perform their|as causes of |are trained for the |

| |understand about HIV |transmission, |duties. |vulnerability, effects |work they do and often |

| |and AIDS? |prevention, care and | |of stigma, availability|provide training and |

| | |support. | |of treatment), but |support to others. |

| | | | |members get no (or | |

| | | | |limited) regular | |

| | | | |training. | |

|Research knowledge and |What do stakeholders, |No understanding |People have a basic |People have a firm |People have expert |

|ethics |partners, and the | |understanding of |understanding of |knowledge of research |

| |research team | |research concepts, but |research concepts, |concepts and receive |

| |understand about the | |many misperceptions or |including participant |regular research |

| |basics of research? | |gaps in understanding |protections, data |literacy training. |

| | | |still exist. |safety monitoring, and | |

| | | | |the ethics review | |

| | | | |process, but they do | |

| | | | |not get regular | |

| | | | |training on the | |

| | | | |subject. | |

|Your trial [insert name|What do stakeholders, |No understanding |People have a basic |The trial is well |The trial is well |

|of trial] |partners, and the | |understanding of what |understood and people |understood and most |

| |research team | |question the trial is |are familiar with basic|have been trained on |

| |understand about your | |designed to answer. |trial procedures, but |the trial purpose and |

| |trial [insert name of | | |few (or none) have |procedures. |

| |trial]? | | |received training on | |

| | | | |the trial. | |

|Gender and HIV and AIDS|What do stakeholders, |No understanding |People know that gender|The organization has |The organization always|

| |partners, and the | |inequality and gender |taken steps to |analyzes how gender is |

| |research team | |norms influence HIV |integrate a gender |affecting vulnerability|

| |understand about the | |risk but do not know |perspective into its |to HIV and access to |

| |relationship between | |what to do about it. |research activities and|services within the |

| |gender and HIV and | | |programs. |community, and responds|

| |AIDS? | | | |with appropriate |

| | | | | |strategies. |

|Other capacity-building needs: Are there other topics that could benefit the stakeholders, partners and the research team that are not listed |

|above (e.g., training on couples counseling, gender-based violence and similar topics)? |

|Needs assessment: Based on the responses, what gaps exist and what steps are needed to build capacity and fill those gaps? |

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