Collaborative efforts between university researchers and community entities such as
citizen coalitions and community-based organizations to provide health prevention
programs are widespread. The authors describe their attempt to develop and implement
a method for assessing whether community organizations had the organizational
capacity to collaborate in a national study to prevent HIV infection among young men
who have sex with men and what, if any, needs these institutions had for
organizational capacity development assistance. The Feasibility, Evaluation Ability,
and Sustainability Assessment (FEASA) combines qualitative methods for collecting
data (interviews, organizational records, observations) from multiple sources to
document an organization's capacity to provide HIV prevention services and its
capacity-development needs. The authors describe experiences piloting FEASA in 13
communities and the benefits of using a systematic approach to partnership
development.
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