Table 2 Results of individual capability assessment in three target departments

Formulate policy and strategy

Understand policy and budget cycles and financial planning

Formulate policy and strategy

Presenting technical data

Understand governance and legal environment

Technical report writing

Understand country development policies

Political analysis

System’s thinking

Leadership

Strategic planning

Decision making

Establishing performance goals

Leading people

Ability to create a vision

Set priorities and be focused

Ability to commission

Define a product

Conflict resolution

Manage knowledge and undertake robust needs assessment

Monitoring and evaluation of projects

Oversight contract implementation

Organizing the process

Policy review

Critical thinking

Research

Quantitative analyses

Data analysis

Qualitative analysis

Ability to identify special problems and frame questions for analyses and research

Policy dialogue

Stakeholder and political analysis

Ability to address both politically controversial and technically complex aspects of an issue in a dispute

Ability to bring diverse interest groups to the table

Ability to seek to formulate practical solutions to complex problems

Ability to moderate complex issues and build consensus recommendations between the engaged parties

Ability to convene

Negotiation

Mediation

Political and economic power mapping

Collaborative group management, and problem-solving