Participatory Worksite Capacity Assessment Sample Clauses

Participatory Worksite Capacity Assessment. World Learning, in collaboration with worksites across Ethiopia facilitated Participatory Worksite Capacity Assessments (PWCA) These self-assessments were designed to help management units of private sector organizations self-assess their capacity to mitigate the risk of negative HIV impacts through workplace prevention and support programs that reflect international standards. The PWCA reflects World Learning’s unique approach to capacity assessment by mirroring its proprietary Participatory Institutional Analysis (PIA). Rather than a solely external evaluation, the PWCA engages worksite management and key stakeholders through a joint problem identification and planning process which results in an agreed upon capacity assessment level incorporating worksite policies, programs, practices, and staffing. World Learning’s approach enables worksite management to understand their level of vulnerability to negative impacts of HIV and the capacity they need to mitigate that vulnerability. World Learning assisted worksites to target specific policy and programmatic responses that supported a healthy workforce and are in alignment with national and international standards Following, World Learning and the worksites jointly developed action plans to strengthen the worksites’ capacity, including the technical assistance required. World Learning developed a rapid mapping protocol that enabled the MULU worksite team to assess the facilities’ status, and 54 worksite facilities were selected to be a part of the PWCA process. The selection of these worksites was meant to ensure a sectoral distribution that would inform World Learning’s work in a variety of industries, knowing that within some sectors, populations, policies, risks, and capacity would be similar. The PWCA Tool The PWCA tool uses a set of qualitative questions and workers survey that enable the company to calculate their level of operational risk to negative impacts on productivity due to HIV. This risk is calculated as the contrast between company’s vulnerability and capacity: Organizational Risk = Vulnerability / Capacity Reflecting the complexity of the two variables, vulnerability and capacity, these are further defined as the compounded effects of three factors the work together. Vulnerability = Workforce Size + Worker Characteristics + Work Hazardous Capacity = Policy structures + Programs + their effect on worker Practices A signature characteristic of World Learning’s assessment approach is its use o...