Assesment Tools
Our Approaches to This Service
We develop or enhance assessments for projects, teams, organizations, or beneficiaries to understand meaningful baselines throughout capacity building to drive measurable results.
Before creating your assessment, our assessment experts partner with your subject matter experts to develop the approach and questions in a systematic manner to encourage objectivity and actionable results.
We develop assessment tool solutions appropriate for each project:
No-tech:
For environments, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected situations and developing countries where literacy may be low or electricity and internet access are unreliable, we develop discussion-, paper-, or poster-based assessments.
Low-tech:
We develop or enhance Excel-based assessments and an aggregating analysis spreadsheet for assessment results.
High-tech:
We create app and cloud platform-based assessments in our partner assessment builder or your preferred platform (e.g., Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and so on). We partner with Agolix to build assessments in a secure online environment with custom reporting and CSV exporting.
The Team and Technical Expertise Serving You
The Assessment Team possesses the depth of expertise and breadth of diversity necessary to meet the needs of no-, low-, and high-tech assessment environments.
- M&E and Assessment Lead
- Digital and IT Lead
- Assessment Tool and Data Analysis Lead
- Assessment Tool and Smartsheet Lead
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Additional team members include:
- Digitalization experts in multiple platforms, including Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics/Azure
- Assessment and communications experts
In the Skillbridge Journey
- Assessment tools provide the starting point and measuring stick for capacity building along the Skillbridge journey.
- We base training, coaching, and strategic action planning efforts around the needs identified in the assessment.
- Assessments are great data for measuring and evaluating a project, particularly when reassessing.
- We provide sustainability support for our assessment tools and continue maintaining, updating, enhancing, and reporting to improve the Skillbridge journey.
- Our guiding principles help us to develop and implement assessment tools in our clients’ context to suit their needs.
- Our training methodology supports our linking of assessment to capacity building and our quality methodologies support our tool development and help to problem-solve for any challenges.
Examples of This Service
- BizOrigin Investment-Readiness Assessment: In three weeks, we developed an Excel-based tool for low-tech developing countries that identified companies with investment potential. We created an aggregating file to analyze the data. Furthermore, we enhanced the tool by developing a Mac-friendly version.
- Healthcare Quality Hospital Assessments: Leveraging our partnership with Agolix, we revised the questions and approach to the assessment and created an online assessment, custom reporting, and a quality action plan on Smartsheet to track progress on actions and measure healthcare outcomes.