Issue 8 : Tools of the trade: capacity assessment

This issue of Capacity.org focuses on a practical dimension of capacity-building: the role of capacity assessment instruments in supporting capacity-building processes. With the growing importance that has been attached to institutional and capacity development over the past few years, development practitioners have started to develop and apply a range of conceptual frameworks and practical tools to assist in the formulation and implementation of projects and programmes, and to ensure that adequate account is taken of capacity development issues.