By contextualizing the ramifications of government public policies on planning, development and evaluation of capacity-building programs and projects and on technology transfer and dissemination, under Embrapa Strategic Studies and Training?s scope of action, and under the expansion of South-South dialogue, this article aims to explore the connection between the different contingencies to which such programs, projects and courses are subjected, and the development of educational solutions or even innovating educational technologies to increase effectiveness and efficiency of these capacity-building actions and thus of their impacts. Herein we specifically analyze the use of the tool "Socialization of the Survey of Expectations" (SSE) with stakeholders (participants, instructors and organizers) in one of these projects, treated here as a case study: the International Course "Sustainable Coconut Production System and Fruit and Vegetables Quality Classification", jointly held by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embrapa Coastal Tablelands and Embrapa Strategic Studies and Training
