How is community capacity included in the assessment?
From the point of view of achieving outcomes, the key benefit of community capacity is that it may enhance the capacity and willingness of land/water managers to adopted changed practices. If you judge that this would apply in your project, it would positively influence the score provided for practice change in Q3.3. A more positive rating for practice change increases the Benefit: Cost Index for the project, and moves the project to the right in the Public: Private Benefits Framework. In some cases, community capacity may also reduce the risks of project failure due to other socio-political risks (Q4.4). On the other hand, a highly motivated and networked community may be more effective at opposing a particular project, and so increase the risks of project failure. This needs to be judged on a project-by-project basis.
