Institutional Implementation Capacity Assessment helps organisations evaluate their capacity to carry out their mission and projects. The method contrasts the demands on the organisation generated by its mission and objectives with its capacity to supply them. A programme to score and link the data generated by the Barometer with Map Maker is currently being developed. Questions of Survival is a set of questions about people's relations with each other and the ecosystem. Its main purpose is to support self assessment, but it is also useful as an introduction to identifying changes in ecosystem and human wellbeing in system assessment.
Indicators are essential and common to all assessment methods.
Our approach is to encourage users to choose their own indicators on the basis of their understanding of the system and their goal. One of the booklets in this series, Community-based Indicators , describes how to help communities develop their own indicator set. A short description of the characteristics of institutions that learn. Download the PDF version Map Maker is user-friendly software for making maps and displaying data on maps. It has been designed independently by a member of the International Team for use by non-experts.