Counting on Capacity: A Review of Community Waikato

How do we measure or report on the impact of capacity building? This review reports on the effectiveness and ‘value for money’ of a community capacity building hub (Community Waikato), its responsiveness to the sector served, including in particular to Iwi and Māori organisations, and the development of an ongoing evaluative tool for Community Waikato. The EvaluLead framework is used to consider episodic, developmental and transformative changes for individual participants in capacity building activities, their organisations, and across the sector or wider communities. The same findings are also mapped against the Results-Based Accountability framework (Friedman, 2005).