Capacity development: the why’s and how’s
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What does capacity look like? How can you develop capacity bottom-up? What is the driving force behind successful capacity development? Does better capacity necessarily lead to better performance?
Questions of this kind are daily challenges for practitioners, policy-makers and academics working on capacity development. Despite the existence of an extensive body of writing on capacity development, the answers are still not clear. For a start, the international development community has paid relatively little attention to the why’s and how’s of capacity development. Moreover, the bulk of the literature has been written from the vantage point of an ‘outsider’ supporting the organisational change processes and not from the perspective of those involved in such processes.
It was this kind of reflection that prompted a study entitled ‘Capacities, Change and Performance’. This study, led by ECDPM, is currently one of the main activities being undertaken under the aegis of (continued....)
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