Capacity Development
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 CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT |
Capacity is the ability of individuals, institutions, and broader systems to perform their functions effectively, efficiently and achieve their development objectives in a sustainable way.1 Capacity development is a long endeavor process whereby people, organizations and society as a whole unleash, strengthen, create, adapt and maintain capacity over time. It is a process of change through which the system, institutions and individuals are strengthened in order to better perform core functions, solve problems, define and achieve objectives; and to understand and deal with development needs in a sustainable manner. It focuses on national capacity to be developed, such as:
At the individual level, capacity development involves enhancing knowledge and skills, and refers to the process of changing attitudes and behaviors, through learning training. It involves enabling individuals to embark lifelong learning, building on existing knowledge and skills and extending there in new directions. It also involves learning by doing, participation, ownership and processes to increase performance through changes in management, motivation, morale, and levels of accountability and responsibility. At the institutional level, capacity development focuses on the performance and functioning capabilities of an institution and it also involves building on existing capacities. This includes developing the mandates, the tools, the guidelines, and the information management systems for the institution. At the systemic level, capacity development focuses on the creation of the enabling environments – the broad context within which development process take place – i.e. the overall policy, economic, regulatory, and accountability frameworks within which institutions and individuals operate. Without these conditions, newly acquired skills rapidly erode, or become obsolete. [1] |
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