This is the first section of a panel titled "Building and Evaluating a System Based Approach to Evaluation Capacity Building" which presented the recent work by the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation under the direction of Bill Trochim. This section specifically provides an overview of the Systems Evaluation Protocol (SEP) and highlights how the systems evaluation approach embodied in the SEP helps partner organizations build evaluation capacity and produce high-quality evaluation plans. #ResearchonEvaluation #capacity #building #2009Conference #Planning #research #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding #evaluation #SystemsinEvaluation #on