Report – Evaluation of Dutch support to capacity development. The case of PSO.

This evaluation aims to provide insight into the operations of PSO, a Dutch development organization involved in capacity building in developing countries, and the results achieved by its member organizations in the Netherlands and their partners in the South. Research for the evaluation was conducted in a manner that was different from the standard methodological approach, which would have been to take PSO’s policy and the implementation of it as a starting point. Instead, it was decided to start from the processes and results achieved by Southern partners, move next to PSO member organizations and ultimately to the PSO secretariat. This change of method was to make sure that the reality experienced by the partner organizations was expressed as well as possible and used as a point of reference for assessing the theories of PSO’s policies and their effectiveness.