Organizational Development
What We Offer
- Expertise in learning and evaluation to enable informed decision making about the future of programs and organizations
- Strategic planning supportto help clients enhance performance at all levels of their organizations
- State-of-the-art facilitation and customized interventions to improve performance
How We Work
- Highly participatory processes that engage clients to articulate desired outcomes and lead change through all stages of organizational development
- Transparent communication and adaptive management that respond to evolving needs
- Built-in sustainability measures that reinforce the links between individual capacity and organizational performance
What Makes Us Different
- Appreciative organizational assessments to understand existing practices, build on success, and respond to challenges
- Comprehensive, facilitative processes to help organizations and programs develop strategic plans and benchmarks for success
- Rigorous monitoring, evaluation, and research to support continued organizational development after our work concludes
USAID, Communications and Knowledge Management for ADVANTAGE
To support the goal of integrating gender into all USAID programs and activities under the ADVANTAGE IDIQ, EnCompass is developing knowledge management (KM) and communications strategies and services for USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment...
American Library Association, Measuring Progress Against Strategic Goals
The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) works to ensure that libraries have a voice in information policy debates, and to promote full and equitable intellectual participation by the public. After adopting a new...
USAID, Global Health Bureau Professional and Organizational Development (GHPOD)
Under a five-year contract with USAID, EnCompass manages the Global Health Professional and Organizational Development (GHPOD) II program. GHPOD’s role is to provide professional and organizational development support to USAID’s health sector staff around the world to...
Evaluation of Regional Architecture for UN Women
EnCompass conducted a corporate evaluation of UN Women’s Regional Architecture. UN Women’s mandate is to progress efficiently and effectively toward the goal of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. The Regional Architecture decentralized UN Women’s...
United Nations World Food Programme, Evaluation Learning Programme (EvalPro)
In its aim to end global hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) is striving to plan and commission independent, credible and useful evaluation evidence across the organization. With this in mind, WFP asked EnCompass to co-design and implement a comprehensive...
Evaluating Our Way to Smarter Organizations
This paper advocates for the creation of an overall evaluation plan— or “evaluation system” — for all nonprofit organization programs. Such an evaluation plan would aim to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations implementing social programs by enabling them to...
Building Strong Training Programs for Oceana Staff
EnCompass worked with Oceana, the largest international advocacy organization focused on ocean conservation, as the DC-based NGO’s learning and development partner. Oceana has offices in North America, Central America, South America, Europe and Asia and...
U.S. Department of State, Executive Leadership and Development
Through this five-year blanket purchase agreement, EnCompass is supporting the Foreign Service Institute’s Leadership and Management School in its efforts to develop career leaders and managers in the Department of State and the larger foreign affairs community and...
World Bank Internal Justice System, Developing Evaluation Systems
The World Bank provides a number of resources through which staff members can address their concerns and grievances. EnCompass worked with a variety of Internal Justice System (IJS) offices -- Ombudsman, Ethics and Business Conduct, Mediation, Appeals Committee, and...
Organizational Development for the Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT)
ASIRT is an educational and advocacy organization that seeks to reduce traffic fatalities around the world, with extensive programs in Turkey and Kenya. EnCompass worked with ASIRT to develop a detailed strategic plan built on past successes to carry the...