Capacity Building Blogs Category

All capacity-building workshops hosted by 4th Wheel aim to bring people together to seek their opinions, extract knowledge, and solve problems in a collaborative and creative environment. We wish to make sharing, learning, and teaching in the development sector more participatory, enjoyable, and effective. Key features of our workshops are shown in the below infographic:

The rhetoric of the self-serving, evil corporation is one we are all too familiar with. It is also one that up until very recently, I completely bought into. I certainly did not believe they served any cause beyond self-interest that I could get behind (funnily enough, business school seems set on making me do just

In the age where we are all a string of numbers that can be reduced to categories and patterns through which organisations and politicians target us with their products and agenda, it’s difficult (if not impossible) to stay completely off-the-grid and keep your information private. At a time like this, it becomes more important than [&hellip;]</p>

Documentation is often seen as a difficult task by most development organisations. The documentation challenge generally links back to a lack of knowledge on and usage of ideal tools and techniques for documentation. Another critical challenge is from the point of view of motivation for and realisation of the need for documentation. Photo source: Process

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. – Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa Evaluation without cultural context often becomes an empty effort that hinders positive change. That's why understanding the cultural

In a world where nothing is static and the face of research keeps evolving, it can be difficult to conduct an accurate, reliable evaluation. Diving deep into myriad theories and spearheading complex implementation calls for a vigilant evaluation at every major turn. It’s through this implementation that evaluation dictates the successes and failures of the

Effective Evaluation makes or breaks a program or project undertaken by an organisation. The straightforward process of interpreting a program’s results while keeping in mind factors like its goals, resources, and present-day relevance to gauge the value or merit of the program is one of the key determinants in deciding the impact of your initiatives

With the objective of building the already existing capacities of personnel in the development sector, specifically in the domain of bringing communities voices into program evaluation, 4th Wheel hosted a workshop on 'Storytelling for Evaluation'. The aim of the workshop was: Provide a practical introduction to community based, participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Present methods, tools

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein

Recently, I attended a conference on Impact Evaluation hosted by the Community of Evaluators (COE)/ South Asia in Thimphu, Bhutan. The conference was all sorts of GREAT! Four days were divided into two days of pre-conference workshops, while the two-day conference saw several interesting panel discussions. This being one of my first international conferences on

To commemorate World Water Day 2017, Ambuja Cement Foundation joins hands with 4th Wheel Social Impact (4WSI) to host a participatory dialogue on “Co-creating water-positive communities”. As part of the event, we are facilitating three break-out sessions on water-related topics and making use of innovative tools and techniques. The objective of these workshop sessions is to