A readiness assessment helps identify potential facilitators of or barriers to success before beginning an initiative. Readiness assessments do not measure how good you are or would be at a thing; rather it helps better understand the foundations for the work before work is begun (or renewed). Community readiness assessments can help understand what areas of community knowledge and skill could be improved before initiating a new organisation or programme. Organisational readiness assessments can help understand what areas of organisational practice could be improved before initiating a new programme or project.

Resources: Community Readiness for Community Change, Liberatory Thinking Tool, Meaningful Engagement Organisational Foundations Self-Assessment Survey